Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Games

Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby BatFlipsFTW » Sat Aug 17, 2019 18:09:50

Remember Chris Bensons wife?
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Slowhand » Sat Aug 17, 2019 18:15:59

No, but I remember Kris Benson’s wife.

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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Slowhand » Sat Aug 17, 2019 18:25:11

I did not, however, remember this...

In 1996, Anna Benson (then Anna Warren) was charged with murder when 18-year-old Michael Evans was executed in her Tennessee apartment.[2] Police found Benson's apartment covered in satanic anti-police graffiti, but Benson and her boyfriend had already fled in a stolen vehicle.[3] The national manhunt for the suspects was featured on America's Most Wanted. Witnesses said that Warren told her then boyfriend to "get rid of" Evans. The murder charges were eventually dropped, prompting the victim's father to state that "she got away with murder ... I don’t know how she can live with herself knowing that she conspired to kill my son.”[4]


Holy moly, what a head case she was.
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby phatj » Sat Aug 17, 2019 20:58:18

Wolfgang622 wrote:The pitch thrown by Chris Sale at 2:04 of this video is one of the most insane I have ever seen. It honest to god seems to legitimately vanish midlfight.


That's nuts.

There's one by a Mariners pitcher earlier in the video that reminded me of a SportsCenter highlight that has stuck with me since roughly 2001... It was Jeff Nelson, I believe, who threw a curveball or slider that I swear broke on a 45 degree plane. It started going up and in to a lefty batter, and ended up on the bottom outside corner.
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Bill McNeal » Sat Aug 17, 2019 21:01:24

This year's crop of major free agent relievers has been a $250 million disaster

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-relievers- ... 17587.html

Here is a list of every reliever who got more than $5 million in free agency last offseason according to Spotrac, their ERA this season and how many times they’ve hit the IL:

Craig Kimbrel (Cubs, $43 million): 5.68 ERA, one trip to IL

Zack Britton (Yankees, $39 million): 2.13 ERA

Jeurys Familia (Mets, $30 million): 6.30 ERA, two trips to IL

Adam Ottavino (Yankees, $27 million): 1.70 ERA

Andrew Miller (Cardinals, $25 million): 3.79 ERA

Joe Kelly (Dodgers, $25 million): 4.69 ERA

David Robertson (Phillies, $23 million): 5.40 ERA, one trip to IL

Kelvin Herrera (White Sox, $18 million): 6.88 ERA, one trip to IL

Joakim Soria (Athletics, $15 million): 4.79 ERA

Justin Wilson (Mets, $10 million): 2.66 ERA, two trips to IL

Cody Allen (Angels, $8.5 million): 6.26 ERA, one trip to IL, DFA’d

Jesse Chavez (Rangers, $8 million): 4.85 ERA, one trip to IL

Trevor Rosenthal (Nationals, $7 million): 13.50 ERA, one trip to IL, DFA’d

Derek Holland (Giants, $7 million): 5.59 ERA, one trip to IL, DFA’d

Yikes.
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Slowhand » Sat Aug 17, 2019 22:38:31

Brett Myers has something to tell y'all:

@BackWoodsRebel39 wrote:Analytics are just a bunch of geeks that are playing fantasy baseball with players careers! Take ur numbers and shove them where the sun don’t shine cuz I’ll take 25 guys with heart over any number u show me!
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby pacino » Sat Aug 17, 2019 22:41:37

Backwoods rebel knows true baseball involves dragging your wife by her hair...sigh
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby kruker » Sat Aug 17, 2019 22:58:48

Slowhand wrote:I did not, however, remember this...

In 1996, Anna Benson (then Anna Warren) was charged with murder when 18-year-old Michael Evans was executed in her Tennessee apartment.[2] Police found Benson's apartment covered in satanic anti-police graffiti, but Benson and her boyfriend had already fled in a stolen vehicle.[3] The national manhunt for the suspects was featured on America's Most Wanted. Witnesses said that Warren told her then boyfriend to "get rid of" Evans. The murder charges were eventually dropped, prompting the victim's father to state that "she got away with murder ... I don’t know how she can live with herself knowing that she conspired to kill my son.”[4]


Holy moly, what a head case she was.


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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Wheels Tupay » Sat Aug 17, 2019 23:18:33

what if I am in love with a stripper?
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Bill McNeal » Sun Aug 18, 2019 16:35:52

SPEAKING OF STRIPPERS, the Gwinnett Stripers have a beat the fridge race, like the barves beat the freeze, and it’s pretty great. Watch the whole thing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1UNMsKFwZv ... hd3mygw8ve
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby BigEd76 » Sun Aug 18, 2019 16:55:30

That reliever list is brutal, and I thought Ottavino was going to be the huge bust. It'd be nice if we had any reliever in our system that could throw GASSSSSSS

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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby philliesphhan » Sun Aug 18, 2019 18:39:26

TIL Kosuke Fukudome is still playing baseball in Japan. He's 42 now
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Slowhand » Sun Aug 18, 2019 19:41:34

All this stripper talk and now I have an Ashley Madison ad on the bottom of the page.
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Ace Rothstein » Sun Aug 18, 2019 19:47:07

Slowhand wrote:All this stripper talk and now I have an Ashley Madison ad on the bottom of the page.


Yeah that’s why

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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby phatj » Sun Aug 18, 2019 23:08:41

I've got Rocket Mortgage. Of course, rockets and mortgages are among my interests
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby BatFlipsFTW » Mon Aug 19, 2019 12:38:50

Slowhand wrote:No, but I remember Kris Benson’s wife.

:spam: :spam2: :dh: :spam2:


I knew it was spelled with a K. My bad.
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Slowhand » Mon Aug 19, 2019 13:04:11

Ace Rothstein wrote:
Slowhand wrote:All this stripper talk and now I have an Ashley Madison ad on the bottom of the page.


Yeah that’s why


The algorithm may also have been predicting the last couple pages of the random thoughts thread.

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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby thephan » Mon Aug 19, 2019 14:01:49

You are trying so hard @hand. God's speed. FWIW, my ad rotator has ben impressively blank all day.
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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby momadance » Mon Aug 19, 2019 18:13:05

The kid the A's signed after seeing his video of throwing 96 at the Rockies game struck out the side in his rookie league debut.

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Re: Random Baseball: Dingers and Bat Flips and Five Hour Gam

Postby Bill McNeal » Mon Aug 19, 2019 19:48:55

That’s awesome. Incredible, great for him.
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