Look at Ray Ray Run

Well hot damn, at least you knew this was a dumb take before you said it. Hey bud, less than one lifetime ago was the civil rights movement. People who go back to slavery while citing oppression are some of the most ignorant people alive. Black people still struggle to this day with true equality and extreme oppression was still taking place in this country when my father was born.

If it's a hand contusion on his left hand it's very possible this is caused by the knob of the bat. Hes hitting the ball so good and hard right now the knob could be smashing up against his hamate. This was a problem for Stanton a couple years ago too.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/04/20/tim-anderson-white-sox-improving-vs-sliders-video Looking at those gifs, the writer actually does a nice job describing the major change but the two things to look at are his hands (and his trigger) and his front foot. Because he keeps his front foot in the air, he keeps his hands back which gives his bat more time in the zone with the ball. But with his old load and trigger, anderson would be late on everything if he waited until the ball was coming to put his front foot down. If you look at the first two gifs, his load starts higher, drops lower and then he brings his hands back before forward. His hands are so good that when he got his foot down fast he could get them to the zone but he was off balance, and all the power was shifted to his hands and wrists only. With his load and trigger this year, he starts his hands higher and only drops them to his shoulder level and then instead of pulling them back, he simply finishes his bat wiggle to get his hands in position on rhythm and then hes straight to the ball. Shorter and quicker and he has the power of his lower body waiting back on off speed stuff and his hands are quick enough to turn on anything fast. Those may look like subtle changes but they can mean everything for timing.

Yes.

It's not the same word. My goodness. And it's used it to decrease the significance of it.

You said black people shouldn't be allowed to say it. You dont understand that you're not in a position to make that decision.

This just isnt true my man. Just because you dont understand the difference doesnt mean you should subject them to your train of thought.

By the way, this has been pointed out by those close to Tim but... don't forget where Tim Anderson is from. Tuscaloosa. I'd imagine Tim heard his fair share of the n-word playing as a kid. People have implied such but that's just another angle to this which exemplifies even more why it's ok for Tim imo.

And the gays... amirite? I've for a free front row seat for pride day at the ballpark if you're interested!

Is this a serious post?

Capra has no idea what hes doing.

Cordell is a heck of an athlete.

Everyone loves miggy.

The obsession with velocity is odd. Carlos is having a great year with the heavy slider game plan since he has three sliders and people are ripping cooper lol.

Seems Corbin is doing just fine. When you have an 80 pitch, you should throw it. The concern is health but if his profile stays like this and he stays healthy he's a #1. He's been nearly as exciting as yoan in terms of development this year.

Billy Pierce was my old man's little league coach.

lol the smirk

What are they reconstructing here? No one heard anything. Hell, no MLB players even spoke to investigators? So it's one guy, Joe west, saying this. I'm not sure what customers are going to be reconstructing constantly? There are a lot of bad things said on a baseball field. Just as there are in other sports. Competition kind of breeds that in some.

People need to stop comparing regular work places to professional sports. Shirley worked for another company, and shirley and I were bidding for a big contract. We were in the conference room awaiting the decision. Bob comes out and tells us that Shirley's company has won the bid and the contract is hers. Shirley turns around and high fives Susan and Kyle, screams let's go and slams her laptop shut... Well shit.. I'm pissed. Why would shirley show me up like that. I pick up my laptop and throw it at Shirley. Haha! It hits her fat stomach as she stands up. Shirley yells "what the fuck, you mother fucking cock sucker!" Bob runs into the room, asks what happens.. I told Bob she had no conference room etiquette. Bob called the police - I was arrested, lost my job and shirley was promoted. You see? Throwing a baseball at someone is really dumb, but I'm not going to jail because baseball isnt a normal work place.

I said this the other day. It is very clear who the leader of this baseball team is. Abreu may have the ear of many, but the voice in there is Andersons.

*Fast forward 6 hours* "And the white Sox lose 7-6 following another bullpen implosion."

If they disallow the use of that word by a black person then they should disallow a lot of other words - at that point I'd be fine with it. But this is no different than saying fuck you, cock sucker or anything of that sort.

Agree 100%.

Well you seemed to miss the point and I dont expect you to understand... but black people are "taking the word back" after a century+ of people using it to dehumanize them. They are taking it back, making it a part of their culture, and limiting the power of the word that way. You said you got offended by cracker so I dropped it... but for you to sit here and say how offended you are by that word is comical with the current stance your taking. If you think the use of cracker was heinous and hurtful what do you think the n word was? There weren't a lot of white people hanging from trees with cracker carved into their chest, were there? Were there a lot of bathrooms and drinking fountains In the 60's with no crackers allowed on it? You have no right to tell a black man how to use a word that was created to dehumanize them. Just as I have no right to tell you that cracker shouldnt offend you. I respected your wishes but you cant respect others.

Yes, and sadly - although I doubt this was MLBs intention - this comes off as shaming a black man for using a word that has been reinvented by black culture to reduce the power and hatred behind the words origin.. a word that was created to dehumanize them.