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  1. John_Havok
    I tend to agree, though by the letter of the rule book windups like his were already illegal and could have been called balls long before the pitch clock. It was just something that was never really enforced with nobody on base. Umps could have been calling balls on illegal motions even without runners on base.
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    LMAO, what a horrendous take. But what can you expect from a clown like Pigf***er McGee.
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    Come to think of it Gausman might get a bit of flak for his kind of stuttering step thing leading up to his delivery.
  4. John_Havok
    Actually the clock stops when the pitcher begins his pitching motion ( i think... ill doublecheck the wording in a sec) which would be the problem with Garcia. When does his pitching motion start in all that? **** Edit***** the wording from the rule states "The pitcher must begin his motion to deliver the pitch before the expiration of the pitch timer."
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    The new rule states a pitcher must have a clear point to begin his delivery in order to stop the pitch timer, and Garcia’s multiple steps and arm motions don’t provide that. The rule says the pitcher is permitted to take one step back (or laterally) and one step forward. Thus, taking multiple steps before lifting the free leg is now deemed an illegal pitch movement. Even if he does this with nobody on base, it could be called an automatic ball.
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    Right after posting it the first time, you usually need to refresh the site before it will show up for you. The rest of us can see it fine
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    Metre*
  8. John_Havok
    Sugarcane harvest?
  9. John_Havok
    Is it sad i know the answer without googling it?
  10. John_Havok
    I'm all for the s*** show in ST, get it over with before it matters. I just can't wait for the first game in the regular season that gets decided by a walk-off balk because the pitcher stepped off or something when he had already done so twice. The aftermath will be amazing
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    Hopefully the pitchers and hitters all get used to it in ST and the infractions in the regular season will be minimal. It's going to be the managers i think that will be looking at ways to exploit the time clock.
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    NHL Thread

    John_Havok replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Toronto's currently -610 on the moneyline against the Blackhawks tonight on FanDuel.
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    I hope for decimals, fractions and exponents.
  14. John_Havok
    Take it to the NHL thread you apes.
  15. John_Havok
    he was the first big bonus baby! Per wikipedia.... He was known as the "Wizard of Whiff." As an amateur—in high school, for the semipro Signal Oilers—he pitched six no-hitters, three of them in a row, and struck out 945 batters in 549 innings. In one 12-inning high school game, he struck out 27 batters. In 1949, movie producer Frederick Stephani was looking to make a baseball movie but could not afford the story of an established star. Instead, Stephani scouted high school athletes with major league prospects, and eventually signed Pettit for $85,000. Upon his graduation in 1950, Pettit was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates, who bought his contract from Stephani (though Stephani retained film rights), plus an additional $15,000. So technically, i guess he got 85,000 then an additional 15,000. The equivalent of 1.126 million today
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    https://www.mlb.com/cut4/today-in-baseball-in-history-tigers-sell-hank-greenberg-to-pirates-c162203656 Looks like he originally signed for 85,000, but Detroit's owner sold him to Pittsburgh for 35,000 and Pittsburgh agreed to increase it to 100,000 for that season.
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    Countdown to his first oblique injury... 5.... 4.... 3.....2...
  18. John_Havok
    Still only marginally better defensively with Teo out there, but yeah the offense would be pretty hard to beat Would have really interesting to see what the team would look like right now if they had landed Bogaerts, as that would have happened prior to the Varsho trade also
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    Hank Greenberg in 1947? Paul Pettit in 1951, got a $100,000 bonus, but it wasnt salary.
  20. John_Havok
    Their pitching depth is not great for immediate help. Gil is already out with Tj surgery from last season, though should be back later this year. Late July/August - surgery was announced May 21 last year though I didnt bother fidning the actual surgery date, so it was probably in June. Will Warren isnt ready, Clayton Beeter might get a shot though he's wild as f*** with nasty stuff. Gomez has only pitched 15 AA innings so probably isnt ready Jhony Brito might soak up some innings but he's nothing special. Deivi Garcia seems to suck If anything, the yankees would probably try to swing a trade to get a SP involving at least 1 of their IF prospects.
  21. John_Havok
    The thing with video replay is, they should be prepared for a possible challenge and have the stuff ready and queued up for the ref to look at and make his decision quickly. It's pretty obvious when a very close possible offside occurs, so have the guys in the replay room be prepared. I think there was a rule update for MLB this year on the replays that with the new pitch clock, Managers have to indicate if they want time to have their team replay room look at the play, they have to hold up their hand or something and they only get 15 seconds now to indicate if they want a challenge. The new wording has to do with the pitch clock, because it won't start until that 15 second window for indicating a challenge is over. Umps apparently have also been instructed to be very strict on this, and wont be allowing managers to put up their "wait for 15 seconds" unless its a really close play since the managers could abuse it to get extra time for their pitchers between pitches.
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    The three batter rule for relievers started to address that even though it was more intended to keep game flow going instead of having three pitchers come in to face 1 batter each in whatever inning.
  23. John_Havok
    I think that’s just largely due to timing, not because they don’t actually care. I don’t know how to solve that problem either, the MLB season + spring training + playoffs is just so damn long and pitchers especially would have difficulty altering their routines to make it work. I think it might actually work better at the end of the season rather than the start.
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    whatever category of logical fallacy it falls into...its dumb
  25. John_Havok
    https://www.tsn.ca/mlb/toronto-blue-jays-george-springer-feeling-healthy-again-comfortable-moving-to-right-field-1.1919365?fbclid=IwAR2AY1TEUlyzDiwBzlnzyt1YV256wvs9wlKS4w3_jPOvPsPD1XQuIFwtP-k Long and short of it. Springer feels great, is fine with moving to RF.
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