Just saw the replay of the Lackey/Contreras ejection. Gotta love the fire and the passion!

Dumbshitness by Joe to have Freeman pinch run for LaStella earlier. Freeman is supposed to be glued to the bench in case Baez gets hurt. So he pinch runs, and then Baez gets hurt.

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Why is Grimm pitching?

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Oh god dammit joe. no fucking reason to make him get a 4 out save. Manage your bullpen better man.

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Good God ......


.... well hopefully that's a big nothing.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

He has not pitched since Sunday. He will be fine

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Should have been DFA'd weeks ago.

We got this

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Joe does some really questionable on game moves.

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Her face looks like some automaton at Disney that they spent too much time trying to make the facial musculature and skin look overly real. I mean, it's beyond Nicholson's 'Joker'.

Oh uh; he's been usin' Brand X!

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- Henry George

Anyone know if ABC replays the games later ?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Yeah, they're usually on one of channel 7's subchannels, I think the "Good Life" one. Check the listings on that.

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My favorite Win of the year so far

Arguably the biggest win of the season to date.

Yeah, they really needed that one. Huge.

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fuck they won!? Cub fans are a bunch of rumheads

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Sox fans are heavy contributors in this thread early in the day. What happened?

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the game is over....duh

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Cry more.

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Sitting in my postseason seats for the third year in a row, defending a World Series title...not sure there is too much to cry about right now. Life is good!

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Just saw the Lackey pitch. Contreras fucked that up. I can see how the ump blew it .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Maybe, but I think we've gone too far down the rabbit hole of pitch-framing if a pitch right down the middle is called a ball.

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I'm no professional umpire, but it sneaks up on you. Like when I ump high school games the catcher usually frames the outside pitch pretty well and you get a consistent zone. Drop down a few levels and on an outside pitch the catcher is usually moving their body to the ball and taking it farther out of the zone every time, but since you're looking for it you can still have a good zone. Now when a HS catcher all of a sudden botches the frame you kinda get mixed up. Now hopefully I'd never get so mixed up I'd call that Lackey pitch a ball, but who knows.

As an ump you should be judging/calling the ball where it crosses the plate, not on where the catcher manipulates it with his glove. That said, perhaps it was a bit much of me to wish death by cancer on today's umpire.

Overlooked in all this is Lackey giving up a single to a pitcher in a clutch situation.

I still enjoyed the fire and passion.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

The fucker took an outside slider and dumped it into right field. That's a good hitting pitcher right there.

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Oh bullshit on a stick. I don't care how he framed it ... no competent umpire blows a call that egregiously. For that matter, look at the whole day's work - it's preposterous how awful it was. I will presume we all can deduce which pitch is the pitch.

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- Henry George

That's a rough day.

watching the replay right now....on 7.2

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