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Fleetwood said:
The Royals are calling up 45 year old Rich Hill from the minors making him the oldest player in the majors once again. Here's his minors stats this year look at that age difference! View attachment 7673783
Also in geezer news the Phillies signed David Robertson.
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Those K numbers are pretty impressive, particularly at AAA Omaha against actual competition.

The 2 dingers per 9 though suggest Father Time is going to remind him that he's way past due.
 
Fleetwood said:
The Royals are calling up 45 year old Rich Hill from the minors making him the oldest player in the majors once again. Here's his minors stats this year look at that age difference! View attachment 7673783
Also in geezer news the Phillies signed David Robertson.
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Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Those K numbers are pretty impressive, particularly at AAA Omaha against actual competition.

The 2 dingers per 9 though suggest Father Time is going to remind him that he's way past due.
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Hey, if you can swing it...

Jamie Moyer lasted till he was like 50, and facing what, 10% of organized baseball players in history? And he threw only 70-80 mph.
Fleetwood said:
I wouldn't expect him to last long on a contender but KC is under .500 and could be sellers so they just need somebody to pitch innings. If he has a few good starts they may even sell Rich.
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Yeah, they're probably folding this season. Detroit has run away with the AL Central.
 
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Pine Tar said:
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Thumbnail your embeds, nigga.

Tangentially related in terms of ticky tack calls, I hope at some point down the road they officially do away with the whole Replay "keep the tag on a baserunner in case he comes off the bag for a millisecond during a slide and a close play" BS.

It's minute BS that is against the spirit of the rules.

If you manage to attain the bag safely, you shouldn't be called out on replay for losing contact for a fraction of a second on slo-mo video.

Change the rules so that it requires obvious intent to proceed to the next base or some sort of minimum threshold of distance or time required to be disengaged with the base that would make it official that you've abandoned it.

George Springer got called out after advancing to third standing up on a live XBH about a month ago because he was standing on the 3rd base bag and did a little hop directly up & down as a hyperactive celebration. And was called out on replay, recording the 3rd out of the inning.
 
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Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Thumbnail your embeds, nigga.
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Thank you, it has been edited.

Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Tangentially related in terms of ticky tack calls, I hope at some point down the road they officially do away with the whole Replay "keep the tag on a baserunner in case he comes off the bad for a millisecond during a slide and a close play" BS.

It's minute BS that is against the spirit of the rules.

If you manage to attain the bag safely, you shouldn't be called out on replay for losing contact for a fraction of a second on slo-mo video.

Change the rules so that it requires obvious intent to proceed to the next base or some sort of minimum threshold of distance or time required to be disengaged with the base that would make it official that you've become disengaged.

George Springer got called out after advancing to third standing up on a live XBH about a month ago because he was standing on the 3rd base bag and did a little hop directly up & down as a hyperactive celebration. And was called out on replay, recording the 3rd out of the inning.
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Instant replay and it’s consequences have been a disaster for Western sports
 
Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
I hate Kevin Cash
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Jays fans have a weird reverence for Cash even all this time later.

Cash was of course a 3rd rate catcher in their system in the aughts that no one remembers or cares about. I was going to make a quip to your post that at least he took out Derek Jeter covering third base in full gear one time, before remembering that I was confusing him with Ken Huckaby, another shitty Toronto catcher.

Cash joined the Jays org as a bullpen coach or some sort of pro scouting role for a year before he got the Rays manager job. When Cash first got hired in TB, the equivalent of Jays fan Redditors at the time went absolutely apoplectic that they didn't fire whomever was the manager at the time (John Gibbons?) to free up a coaching spot to retain Cash in the organization.

All these years later, he still gets way too much reverence (but at least he's now a seasoned MLB manager with accomplishments). I just recently saw him be named a "Pick Me" outlier in discussions that every MLB fanbase thinks that their manager is a mouthbreathing moron who makes the wrong bullpen moves nightly.

I suspect at least some of the placement of Cash on a pedestal north of the border is because the Rays have absolutely owned the Jays at Tropicana for almost 2 decades.
 
Nick Kurtz of the [REDACTED] Athletics has just finished a game, going 6/6 with 4 Homeruns, a double, and a single. He had 6 runs and 8 RBIs. My nigga. Many are saying this is the best offensive performance of all time.

 
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Nick Kurtz of the [REDACTED] Athletics has just finished a game, going 6/6 with 4 Homeruns, a double, and a single. He had 6 runs and 8 RBIs. My nigga. Many are saying this is the best offensive performance of all time.

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Nick Kurtz sounds like a name a troll would donate under to try and get a twitch streamer banned.
 
Some names are starting to move with trade deadline coming up. Amed Rosario is now a Yankee and the under .500 Royals appear to be buyers getting Grichuk from the DBacks who are already selling off with Naylor also going to Seattle. Eugenio Suarez (36 HR and expiring contract) will be dealt from Arizona any day now.
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
Soccer is the fucking worst about this shit.

"VAR determined your shirt sleeve was a millimeter ahead of the defender. No goal"
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I'm referring to baseball, but I hate now that after every close play at first for the third out, I can't fully enjoy the moment because I'm always lingering for extra seconds wondering if the opposing manager is going to challenge it.

I tend to watch the full games after the fact on DVR so I can fast forward through all the cringe ads and the slow parts (after foul balls, pitching mound visits, waiting for replay decisions, ballpark promotional tour segments, analysts yapping, injury downtime, inane sideline reporter "insight").

But this relatively new replay, challenge-everything-close era means that I have to hang around another 15-20s at the end of each inning on nice close plays because it's not safe to FF until the linescore bumper & the cut to commercial pops up.

At least Manfred & the league later instituted the 15 second challenge rule. The first year where managers and their own video room fucked the dog forever until making a call was excruciating.

While I'm not a fan of the pitch clock either (because its countdown stresses me out as an observer. Also hate some of the tickytack violations I've seen called on hitters this year), it actually does aid in speeding up the DVR viewing. When I'm FFing between pitches & ABs, I know when to resume when the Pitch Clock countdown reappears in the graphics.
 
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