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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 12:40 PM) One of biggest problems with baseball is the speed of the game. Replay makes that worse and in a 162 game season, anomalies will off-set themselves. I understand in a tie-breaker game or the final game of the season it could be the difference maker, and if you really feel that strongly, like I said, only do it in September or something. But doing it all season is awful. Baseball also needs to do something to speed up at bats and breaks. They have for a long time and I don't get why they don't really hammer on it. Quicken the tempo / pace and you'll see ratings pick up, imo. Come on, all the games matter and count in the end. If the Sox lose on a terrible call in may that is unreviewable because it is May, and come within one game of getting into the playoffs then you have a problem. Either you do it the whole way, or you dont. This is a "iron out the kinks" season. They need to figure out how to make these calls quicker, especially when it is obvious.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 01:15 PM) Does Rosenbloom think 90% of the NBA is another form of Carlos Boozer? Today he says Gasol is Spanish for Boozer. When I was listening to the Score several weeks ago, he was actually saying Love was just a better shooting Boozer. Rosenbloom is bargain bin Bayless a lot of the time. He comes across better on radio, but he is just stupidly cynical about everything and seems more interested in telling everyone that he smokes weed. There is very little quality thinking out of him anymore

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 09:59 AM) Apparently Frank Thomas said he's "disappointed" Jose Abreu didn't choose to participate in the Home Run Derby. I say apparently because I got an ESPN alert saying so, but can't find the original source. Anyway, if true, my reaction is shut up Frank. Frank chose not to participate in a few HR Derbys, and actually came out and complained about being chosen as an all star once and said he would rather have the time off. STFU, indeed

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 10:46 AM) Just a guess - they genuinely think, after Nate Robinson and DJ Augustin, that they can find a 3rd PG off the scrap heap if needed and have him succeed in Thibs's setup. That might not be wrong either. And JL3 and Jannero Pargo. Thibs has proved he can plug in scoring guards effortlessly

I chose "Other". It is incredibly incomplete and needs a lot of tweaking, but I think it is getting tweaked and revamped as they go along.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 10:17 AM) You guys saw this from about a month ago, right? i did see that, and thought it was great.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 09:29 AM) That and he hits those line-drive home runs. This thing looks at elevation. That called the 400 footers he hit out in Detroit "Just enough" lol right? Dead center in detroit, pretty much any homer is "just enough" or "lucky". That graph is kind of funny though, Jose either hits mammoth bombs or the "just enough"s. there is a nice little gap in between

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 09:00 AM) In what way will the season make it stop being an argumentative downer? We could win 70 games and the complaint would be that we're a regular season team only I can still enjoy the games

i just want to fast forward past speculation. this thread is gonna be such an argumentative downer until the season starts

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 06:57 AM) Same here. Along with throwing bats. It seems pitchers are sensitive to batters hitting up the middle in our league. I don't do it unless I have no choice but to try it but some pitchers feel like every batter should apologize for going up the middle. If we are up a lot, we don't do it. We were getting killed one game and the other team kept hitting it hard back at our pitcher and we were getting pissed. They kept saying that's how they play but when you're up 15 in the 5th, I don't see a need for it. Try and hit it elsewhere. "hitting box" is weird. I am not a good enough hitter to place it like that at any time, but i do go up the middle naturally. If I almost or do hit a pitcher i will apologize, but not if it is merely near him, which a lot of players do. It is a big disrespect thing in tourneys though. I know that

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 04:46 PM) So I almost got my head taken off yesterday. I was playing catcher and the throw was a bit up the line. The runner coming home literally plowed his arms into my temple. I thought he wasn't even near me when I tried to go catch the ball, so I wasn't bracing for anything. I blacked out for a good 5 seconds. What really pissed me off was that the other team didn't seem to even care. Nobody apologized. In fact, when I got up, extremely pissed off, and asked who hit me, they barely acknowledged my question and acted like nothing happened. It's freaking slow pitch softball, not football. Injuring someone is not worth it, especially when it's a head/neck injury. Apparently, I was occupying the base line (hard to tell since the infield was barely lined) and it was a bang-bang play. Still, there's absolutely no need to plow shoulder first into someone's head. They don't even allow that in professional football. We ended up winning and getting 3rd in the tournament, but I was nowhere near the same after the hit. I was 2-3 before it, 2-7 afterwards. Now I'm going to have to deal with neck and jaw pain for the next week. I think I'm done with USSSA tournaments for a while. People take that s*** way too seriously for what it actually is. That is automatic ejection in our league. They don't allow contact, we even have a safety bag at first

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 04:13 PM) I played league and tournament 12" and 16" and we never had a second EH. Again, I've been gone for 7 or 8 years, so I'm not up on any recent changes, and this sounds like it could be a recent change. If there was a second EH I may have stayed around a while longer, LOL. (although I hated EHing, I never felt like I was in the game when I EH'd.) Honestly I have been playing 12" since I turned 18(18 years now damn!), and there has always been a second EH option wherever I played. I have played in Batavia, Carbondale, Arlington Heights and various tournaments in Carol Stream and Roselle. It's an option, maybe the teams you played on just never used it

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 02:02 PM) The 2nd EH is news to me. I have been out of the game for a while, though. I have never played league 16", so I don't know if rules are different.

The only problem is if you lose a guy to injury and don't have a sub at the game, you get an out in the spot of the injured player when he comes up to hit

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 11:21 AM) Is that something new? I've never heard of batting 12 guys. Pretty standard in softball, 10 men can play the field and 2 EH allowed.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 09:40 PM) As opposed to Flowers hitting .093 for his last 30 games at his age and still retaining the catcher's position. Nobody has sky-high expectations for Sanchez. Field at least better than average, a 650-675 OPS would be a minor miracle his first season or two. Anything above that is a pleasant surprise. Yea, like nobody overreacts pitch to pitch in the game thread or anything That was the worst at bat of the entire year Trade him now his value is plummeting He should have stolen that base it was a perfect pitch I can't believe he tried to steal that base what a terrible idea

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 09:26 PM) Whom? I think he was one of the guys they signed back when Ronnie Brewer came in. They signed like 3 guys to two year deals in order to keep them around to deal for salary flexibility

Confirming Bulls are in advanced talks to trade Greg Smith and his $948,163 salary to Mavericks for cap space. @SpearsNBAYahoo first.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 12:40 PM) Did you guys empty the bench? How did you only bat 3 times while scoring 26 runs? I actually batted 4 times, I had a sac fly. We won it in 5 innings via slaughter, and batted 12 players http://www.leaguelineup.com/gamesum_baseba...GameID=18575822

Yay win Boo injury

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 10:19 AM) tmar is trolling you guys Lmao. Hard

I wonder if Melo is seriously contemplating the 2 year deal. That gives him a chance to win and decide to stay, or go home Lebron style if he wins and be the savior still in his prime

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 10:35 AM) This morning it sounds to me the opposite, the press seems to think the Knickerbockers confidence is growing and the Bulls are starting to move on. Knicks writers are giving off that vibe, chicago writers say Melo still in play(save Cowley) and national writers have no idea. Aldridge just tweeted this @daldridgetnt: Source says that Pau Gasol deal to the Bulls "should get done today." Don't know impact on CHI pursuit of Melo.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 10:24 AM) Apparently Love already said he'd extend in Cleveland. You get to play with LeBron James and be his white Pippen to his Jordan. It's a no-brainer. I know that has gone around, but you have to wonder why the move hasn't been made yet.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 10:21 AM) Why not? He's been in the league 6 years and seen as many playoffs games as me. LeBron/Irving/Love/Wiggins is a potential dynasty. What team out there can offer that type of winning and that type of winning right away? Love has made it pretty clear he wants to play in a big market and that is where he will extend