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| Grandy4MVP | Aug 15 2008, 08:17 PM Post #121 |
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| HendoBaby | Aug 15 2008, 08:20 PM Post #122 |
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<_< But really, let's talk some baseball. I hate getting worked up thinking about things. It makes me depressed |
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| Grandy4MVP | Aug 15 2008, 08:26 PM Post #123 |
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Why are you so worked up, I've been talking baseball!!!!!!! |
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| Strider | Aug 15 2008, 08:28 PM Post #124 |
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First one: it's clearly a ball and it looks more like a changeup. The batter lays off until the last second and still swings at it. The ball is in the dirt when he starts his swing. Second one: Looked slow. It moved more like a curveball down and a little away from the right-hander. Nice movement, but I can see from that how House would call it slow. Third one: Missed the outside corner. Fourth one: Looked impressive. But, again, it looked more like a 75 mph curveball. Fifth one: Had a sharper downward break and looked harder. Sixth one: Way outside and clearly a ball. Darvish started it off the plate and the black guy (right-handed Cliff Floyd) chased it. I'm gonna agree with House. The slider isn't that impressive. Now I'm gonna read the rest of the thread. |
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| HendoBaby | Aug 15 2008, 08:28 PM Post #125 |
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You're right. I forgot. Yu Darvish has a Randy Johnson in his prime like slider. It starts off like a fastball tempting the hitter to swing and then drops to their feet. He'll be an ace. End thread. |
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| HendoBaby | Aug 15 2008, 08:31 PM Post #126 |
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Strizzle, I read he has a curveball like that which gets confused with the slider. That real slow one really is a curve most likely. It don't look too great, but it drops well for a curve. Still don't see what the batter was swinging at though. Never looked like a strike at any point |
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| Grandy4MVP | Aug 15 2008, 08:35 PM Post #127 |
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:laugh: Well sTrisz, it's obvious neither of you cats know anything about baseball. :laugh2: :thumbup: |
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| HendoBaby | Aug 15 2008, 08:36 PM Post #128 |
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Any ideas for my MP3 player. This thread is turning into a chat room page. Nowhere near the subject it once was on |
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| Strider | Aug 15 2008, 08:50 PM Post #129 |
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Vin, you're on some real instigator sh*t tonight. You started with House and it really looked like you were trying to get him worked up. And that "you're a racist" sh*t came outta nowhere. Frankly, I think every person is at least a little discriminatory in some way. Even if you don't hate groups, you have your preferences. If a white person tells me that they prefer to be around white people and don't particularly like blacks, I wouldn't have a problem with it. A lot of black people would tell you the same thing about white people. I don't hate people who haven't given me reason to hate them (so it's usually a case-by-case thing), but I don't like Muslims. Not liking doesn't equate to hate. I just have no reason to like. And sh*t, if black people don't piss you off at least a little bit, you're either not paying attention or you're lying.
I wouldn't say "hardly." And you should know that I'd never agree to someone saying my opinion means jack sh*t. And I don't give up on [I think you meant the Yankees] frequently. You're the one who makes the weekly "I'm done" threads. You have to actually believe in order to give up. I said in May 2005 that until the team underwent drastic changes that I'd predict a playoff berth and a first-round exit every season. They made the playoffs and lost in the first round in 2005. The next year, the same thing. The year after that, too. So far, I've been right. When BC made the "playoffs or not" thread, I held to that 2005 prediction. It's a little iffy now, them making the playoffs, but I'll stand by it. The reason you don't see me getting worked up like the rest of you is because, based on my evaluation of the the team and organization, I made a prediction three years ago that I believed in (and the rest of you should've believed it, too). Nothing has happened to cause me to deviate from it. And, hate me for it, but I'm not one of the happy-happy Jolly Club fans. I'm not that way with any sport. I'm already telling Giants fans to shut the f*ck up and shake off the Super Bowl stupor. I don't let fandom or excitement cloud my objectivity. So, with that, I didn't get worked up when the Yankees won 8 in a row after the All-Star break, nor do I get worked up when they f*ck up and drop a series to the Orioles. All of it, to me, is to be expected. Because that's pretty much what the team has been for several years. I'm not playing the rollercoaster game anymore. If that makes me a non-baseball fan or fairweather, call it what you want. But don't qestion my knowledge of the sport. I'm 22 and Alzeimer's hasn't kicked in yet. I haven't forgotten the game. Back to the topic: Vin, you still haven't identified any of his sliders that start up looking like fastballs and then break down and in/away. I'm not saying that he doesn't have "stuff." If that was a curveball he was throwing on a couple those, it looked good. But the slider doesn't dazzle. Part of the slider's effect is supposed to be deception. It's not just about the movement. His starts to dart in the direction that it's headed the second it leaves his hand. It doesn't change it's plane at the last mili-second. There's 50 mediocre middle relievers with similar non-deceptive sliders. If you want to say that he's got talent, go ahead, I won't argue. I'll give him the curveball. But don't dickride his slider because you heard he's got a good one and you saw a 90-second highlight where a couple of guys who would (or did) hit .213 in the big leagues chasing pitches a foot outside.
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| HendoBaby | Aug 15 2008, 09:01 PM Post #130 |
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I agree 100% on Darvish. I see talent, but for a very heavy pricetag, I'm not sure he'd be dazzling big league hitters. What's the thing on his fastball though? I read it's in the high 90s. It don't look like it has great of movement, but he appears to hit his spots well. If it's really that high, that changes things A LOT. |
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| HendoBaby | Aug 15 2008, 09:02 PM Post #131 |
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I liked your Jay Z suggestions years ago and that Eminem/Nate Dogg song. I don't usually have a lot of rap though. But let me ask you. There was a music video I saw a year or so ago with Nate Dogg doing the chorus as like a funeral guy. It was from the first chronic. It was a good song. I tried finding it, but I couldn't. Do you know what it is? |
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| moomoo24 | Aug 16 2008, 02:20 PM Post #132 |
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For the posting fee and the contract Darvish would get he'd have to be a bonafide ace. I don't think he is, at least right away so it's not worth it. Sabbathia is a borderline must but I'm not sure he'd want to come here. Plus he has to show something in the playoffs this year because last year he sh*t the bed against Boston and the last thing we need as a regular season compiler and not a big game player. |
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| Strider | Aug 16 2008, 02:34 PM Post #133 |
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Not sure. It was off the old, early 90s "Chronic" album? |
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| Mattingly23 | Aug 16 2008, 02:37 PM Post #134 |
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"The Chronic" is a great CD, period. Download the whole thing. |
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| HendoBaby | Aug 16 2008, 05:23 PM Post #135 |
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It was a bonus track or something. The music video featured Nate Dogg as like a mortician singing the chorus with the usual suspects like Dre in it |
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