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    posted 3 weeks ago by Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim to baseball  |  5 comment(s)

    Peavy smiles and says: “I try not to yell; I try not to swear. But at 7 o’clock every night, I turn into someone different. I’m out there trying to focus. I’m competing. I can’t control myself. But I have three little boys. I want them to be able to watch their daddy pitch without hearing all the yelling.

    Dunn smiles and says: “I make fun of Jake. I mock him. I can’t even make the sound he makes when he’s out there; it will hurt my throat. We do an over/under on when he’s going to first yell at ...

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    251. Best Regards, L.M. posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:52 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Dumb play by Reynolds. Andino would have had the 4-3 if Reynolds had stayed at home.
    252. Gamingboy posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:52 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Okay, my gut says that isn't Conradian, but...
    253. Lassus posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:52 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Not optimal, Reynolds.

    254. Gamingboy posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wait, what the heck just happened?
    255. Best Regards, L.M. posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Great play.
    256. Gamingboy posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wow. Uhm, wow.
    257. TVerik posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wow.
    258. salvomania posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:56 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Jeter looks rounder and more hairless than usual.

    EDIT: Now that I've seen Cal Ripken Jr, maybe that's just how older shortstops start to look as they age.
    259. Best Regards, L.M. posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:56 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    That was almost first and third, nobody out with a run in. Instead a runner on first two outs.

    Ladies and gentlemen, that's the Orioles' season summed in on one play.
    260. cardsfanboy  posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:56 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Arod chokes again.
    261. Best Regards, L.M. posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:57 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    ICHIRO! AMAZING!!!!
    262. The Yankee Clapper posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:57 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wow,
    263. Lassus posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:57 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Yowza. Think it was right, though.
    264. Gamingboy posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:57 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    WHAT!? How the hell did Ichiro do that? It's like he Matrixed Wieters.
    265. Davo Mastroianni posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:57 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    HOLY #### ICHIRO!!!
    266. The Ghost of Sox Fans Past  posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:57 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Catcher should dive on TOP of the plate the second time (that he tries to tag him).
    267. TVerik posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:58 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    That's a great play by Ichiro.
    268. Walks Clog Up the Bases posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:58 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    That's like something you'd see in a baseball movie.
    269. Blastin posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:58 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Chen getting hit pretty hard so far.
    270. Best Regards, L.M. posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:58 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wieters always does that sweep tag, and usually makes it.
    271. Gamingboy posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:58 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Yeah, that was the correct call. Ichiro just, and I do mean just avoided the tag.
    272. The Ghost of Sox Fans Past  posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    .. though I can't fault Wieters.
    273. salvomania posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    That was like a choreographed dance number.
    274. TVerik posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    He's the only guy on the team who scores there. He might be the only guy in the league who scores there.
    275. The John Wetland Memorial Death (CoB) posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    ICHI THE THRILLER!
    276. fra paolo posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Ichiro! uses his ninja skills to evade the Herculean Wieters.
    277. The Yankee Clapper posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Surprised Angel Hernandez got the call right.
    278. Lassus posted on October 08, 2012 at 08:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wait, that doesn't count as out of the baseline?
    279. Best Regards, L.M. posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    There have been three tough calls this series, and the umps have gotten them all correct.
    280. Eddo posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I'm not even able to keep score in most games (mainly because of the need to "get food" or "couldn't find a pencil" or "was a cheapskate").

    How much do scorecards cost most places? At U.S. Cellular, they are $1.

    My mom keeps score at every Sox game she goes to (roughly 20 a year). There are scorecards in every seat pocket of her car and all over the garage. The one she doesn't have? Game one of the 2005 World Series.
    281. The John Wetland Memorial Death (CoB) posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Anyone figure out what the Super-Mo angle is for on Postseason.Tv?

    I was hoping it would be for replays, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
    282. TVerik posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Runs scored has been pretty thoroughly debunked as a statistic. But Ichiro deserves some sort of crazy statistical bump based on that play.
    283. The Ghost of Sox Fans Past  posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    What is "out of the baseline" though? doesn't that apply? Guess not.
    284. Random Transaction Generator posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:01 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Whoever is preparing Ichiro's HOF induction video just added that under his "baserunning" highlights section.
    285. TVerik posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:02 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Gamingboy, #264 was great. Thanks.
    286. Gamingboy posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:02 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    That was not on Wieters, it was all on Ichiro. That could rival his rainbow of a outfield assist as his signature play.
    287. Random Transaction Generator posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:04 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Credit goes to the ump for being in the right place for the call, and making the correct call.

    Oh, and my wife is watching a delayed viewing of that new show "Partners" in the other room.
    The storyline is the main character just found out that his fiancee's prior boyfriend was Derek Jeter.
    (She didn't tell him.)

    I'll have to ask her later if "gift basket" was mentioned.
    288. Davo Mastroianni posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:05 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    You can head back halfway to the dugout, then change your mind and touch home, and still be called safe, right?
    289. TVerik posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:05 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I'm not normally like this, but I think Andy should dye his hair. Doesn't he realize how old he's making me feel by looking like that?
    290. The Ghost of Sox Fans Past  posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:05 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    That play reminds me of another clever baserunning play that I've seen Ichiro pull several times. When he's caught in a rundown and another runner has a chance to advance, he usually ends up finally running way out of the baseline, moving almost perpendicular to the line and away from the center of the diamond. The guy with the ball ends up chasing him, and it allows the other runner to get another base at times. A little thing, but effective.
    291. Gamingboy posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:06 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    You can head back halfway to the dugout, then change your mind and touch home, and still be called safe, right?


    Probably depends. Could technically be like leaving the baseline, like if you decided to run to the pitchers mound before going to second for some strange reason.
    292. Lassus posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:07 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I'm still curious about the baseline question. Going on the view up the third base line, someone goes that far out of the line to first or second, they are out, aren't they? Is it as #288 says?
    293. salajander posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:07 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I'm not normally like this, but I think Andy should dye his hair. Doesn't he realize how old he's making me feel by looking like that?

    Wife thinks Andy looks great with the grey, but I agree - makes me realize how old I am.
    294. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:07 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    You can head back halfway to the dugout, then change your mind and touch home, and still be called safe, right?

    Yes, there is no "base-line" at home plate. Chris Chambliss came back from the clubhouse, hours later, to touch home in 1976.
    295. The Ghost of Sox Fans Past  posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:08 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I was actually thinking of him originally approaching home and going so wide before he got there.

    EDIT - what Lassus said in 292.
    296. Slivers of Maranville (SdeB) posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:08 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Once you've gone all the way from third to home and just need to touch the plate, there no longer is a baseline to follow, no?
    297. Best Regards, L.M. posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:09 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Yes, there is no "base-line" at home plate. Chris Chambliss came back from the clubhouse, hours later, to touch home in 1976.
    That didn't count. The game was over when the Royals abandoned the field, thus forfeiting their right to appeal.
    298. TVerik posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:10 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Yes, there is no "base-line" at home plate. Chris Chambliss came back from the clubhouse, hours later, to touch home in 1976.


    So if you're going to be out at home by a mile, just don't let the catcher get you. Hide in the dugout until no one is looking, then score the run.
    299. Best Regards, L.M. posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:11 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Once you've gone all the way from third to home and just need to touch the plate, there no longer is a baseline to follow, no?
    The runner establishes his own baseline, three feet in either direction from a direct line to home plate. Only part of you needs to be in the baseline, and I think Ichiro was. The rest was an overslide, which is not an attempt to avoid the tag, but merely momentum, and doesn't count as being out of the baseline.
    300. Gamingboy posted on October 08, 2012 at 09:11 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I was sitting in a part of the lower deck that was far back enough where there were TVs showing the TBS feed, which allowed us to see replays when the rest of the stadium hadn't. I imagine that most of the booing over the Ichiro call (besides the usual "boo when the other team scores" stuff) was NOT coming from those sections.

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