Oh yeah?

YEAH

Oh, yeah.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY-O!

Napalm wrote:he was my go to in home run derbys on sega genesis.

Oh hell yes

my cousin mose wrote:

Napalm wrote:he was my go to in home run derbys on sega genesis.

Oh hell yes

Juan “Going Going” Gonzalez was always the guy leading me to many Home Run Derby titles.

Sometimes baseball drives me nuts. Twins are butt hurt because an Orioles rookie bunted against the shift when his team was down 7-0 in the ninth. I still wouldn't agree, but would understand, if the Twins' pitcher had a no-hitter going, but that wasn't the case. If there's an unwritten rule out there that you should quit playing to win at some point, they need to unwrite it, um, write it down and erase, uh, whatever one does to get rid of an unwritten rule.

Brian Dozier and the Twins are upset the Orioles' Chance Sisco tried to help his team win

swishnicholson wrote:Sometimes baseball drives me nuts. Twins are butt hurt because an Orioles rookie bunted against the shift when his team was down 7-0 in the ninth. I still wouldn't agree, but would understand, if the Twins' pitcher had a no-hitter going, but that wasn't the case. If there's an unwritten rule out there that you should quit playing to win at some point, they need to unwrite it, um, write it down and erase, uh, whatever one does to get rid of an unwritten rule.

Brian Dozier and the Twins are upset the Orioles' Chance Sisco tried to help his team win

It is OK to shift up 7-0 but obviously not OK to bunt against it down 7-0, duh Swish!

JUburton wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Sometimes baseball drives me nuts. Twins are butt hurt because an Orioles rookie bunted against the shift when his team was down 7-0 in the ninth. I still wouldn't agree, but would understand, if the Twins' pitcher had a no-hitter going, but that wasn't the case. If there's an unwritten rule out there that you should quit playing to win at some point, they need to unwrite it, um, write it down and erase, uh, whatever one does to get rid of an unwritten rule.

Brian Dozier and the Twins are upset the Orioles' Chance Sisco tried to help his team win

It is OK to shift up 7-0 but obviously not OK to bunt against it down 7-0, duh Swish!

Good point!

Fuck the Twins. Worry about your own team. If the game is over, why play the shift, fucking hypocrites.

I would even be OK if it was done with a no-hitter going. If you shift on me, I would bunt it against the shift every damn time.

Phred wrote:I would even be OK if it was done with a no-hitter going. If you shift on me, I would bunt it against the shift every damn time.

cc: ryan howard!

Remember when the Phillies used the shift on power hitter Ryan Flaherty and he killed us?

I think the shift has officially jumped the shark.

Stop making your players move around the field for every goddamn hitter.

Doll Is Mine wrote:Remember when the Phillies used the shift on power hitter Ryan Flaherty and he killed us?

I think the shift has officially jumped the shark.

Stop making your players move around the field for every goddamn hitter.

Stop.

Doll Is Mine wrote:Remember when the Phillies used the shift on power hitter Ryan Flaherty and he killed us?

I think the shift has officially jumped the shark.

Stop making your players move around the field for every goddamn hitter.

THE MAGIC NUMBER: .197

WHAT IT MEANS: If you’re a left-handed hitter who pulls a ground ball these days, that’s your chance of reaching base, either via a hit or some sort of fielding mishap. That number is about 40 points lower – yessir, 40 points – than it was as recently as 2011, according to Sports Info Solutions.

Uncle Milty wrote:Can't wait 'til I'm commissioner and make shifts illegal.

Perhaps we could draw boxes on the field, and make the players stand in them. Like the coaches.

Uncle Milty wrote:

Werthless wrote:

Uncle Milty wrote:Can't wait 'til I'm commissioner and make shifts illegal.

Perhaps we could draw boxes on the field, and make the players stand in them. Like the coaches.

While I'd like to see the catchers box enforced nothing quite that stringent. One simple rule - the fielders must position themselves with both feet on the customary side of 2B until the pitch is released.

Agree. The shift is awful.

Wolfgang622 wrote:

Uncle Milty wrote:

Werthless wrote:

Uncle Milty wrote:Can't wait 'til I'm commissioner and make shifts illegal.

Perhaps we could draw boxes on the field, and make the players stand in them. Like the coaches.

While I'd like to see the catchers box enforced nothing quite that stringent. One simple rule - the fielders must position themselves with both feet on the customary side of 2B until the pitch is released.

Agree. The shift is awful.

Best way to get rid of the shift is to bunt against it. Constantly. It'll stop eventually...

I don't get why it's awful. it's playing defense

Let's get rid of the forward pass too.