Turn your computer off then on again.

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Turn your computer off then on again.

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Exactly

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Nice job Frank!

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I dont know, Im thinking you must be double clicking. Try to just hit submit once and wait.

Please delete womens' game rules from the MLB thread.

Sexist!

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That rule is not the rule that the leagues that I played in out here. Like I said before, there was a mat which defined the strike zone. A properly thrown ball which hit that area was a strike.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Okay. Are you saying to wait after I get that message about another post being submitted? Or what should I do once I get that message?

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

When I umpired girl's softball for my friend Jerry who died, we had a very simple rule- if it looked like you could have hit it, it was a strike. Jerry used to hold a conference with both pitchers before the game and tell them, "You guys are gonna love me. I call a lot of strikes. So I want you to make sure your teammates aren't crying about it." We started the counts 1-1 too. It was a 30-40 minute drive from Wilson Park to Sportsman's and first post was 8:00.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

If you get the "someone has made a post" message, you do have to hit submit again, but dont hit it twice. Sometimes it will stall and seems like it's not going through but it is.

Different sport because it's 12inch fastpitch but our guy Lou is great with the forehead to toes strike zone.

We bring him in if there is rain the forecast and we need a quick game. People get upset, but he does keep it the same for both teams.

We once won a 6 inning game 8-0 in like 65 minutes.

Damn, I feel dumb. This stuff shouldn't be so hard to do. First I accuse someone of deleting my posts a week or so ago and then I find out that the "fix" that I did is now somehow causing double posts in some cases. I am really frustrated.

Let me ask something. What does that message mean about someone else has posted something and you might want to reconsider what you just posted? In other words, why does it happen in the first place? Is it supposed to mean that you might alter what you just submitted once you read someone else's post? This really doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

And once you get this message, what are you supposed to do? Your original message isn't sent yet. It is sort of in limbo status, right? I have been scrolling down until I find my message and hit submit once again. Sometimes it then goes through okay and sometimes I get the same someone else has posted something message. It just is clumsy to me and I obviously am doing something wrong and/or there is somekind of bug in the software itself.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

I think probably just to avoid repeated posts.

Like if someone asks a question and it gets answered before you post the same answer.

Anyway, tons of people have had issues posting and quoting. for good dolphin, it's a lifestyle. LTG used to quote posts with nothing added. Dont worry about it.

Don't feel dumb The Hawk.

MANY here have issues with double, sometimes triple posts.

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If you are working on a response in a thread and someone else submits a response to the same thread before you hit "submit", you'll get that message. You then have to scroll down to find your response box and hit "submit" again.

If it's a game thread and something epic just happens, you may have to hit "submit" three or four times. Don't click "submit" repeatedly.

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There are leagues with unlimited pitch height that the above applies to. It also applies to the limited height pitch leagues, with 6'-12' pitch slot.

The mat leagues pretty much do the same. They have a 6'-12' pitch slot and if you land it on any part of the mat, it's a strike.

I've never played in a league where hitting the plate was a strike.

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Back to MLB. A pitch that hits dirt on the way to the plate is always a ball, unless swung at. It would be simple enough to add that if the ball bounces in fair territory before crossing the plate it should be considered a "ball".

Since the plate is in fair territory, any pitch that hits it should be considered a "ball".

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This is kind of along the lines of what I was thinking. I was going to expand the roster to 27 and only have 20 active for a game. 4 starting pitchers are not going to participate usually so that already takes you down to 23 to pick from. With the current roster you are really working with 21 players for each game because of the starters so this isn't that much of a change. I might even knock it down to 19 active players. The DL for sure has to go back to 15 days and the length of time a player must stay in the minors after being sent down needs to be set in stone. No "unless for an injury replacement" clause.

I really don't think this would change much...it would be almost identical to a game where you know you have 2 relievers down because of being overworked the night before. That is pretty common. This will make managers be more efficient with their bullpen management, speed things up a little bit and also provide rest for your pen. The DL/AAA rules should keep teams from trying to manipulate the roster rules .

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

disabled list now called the injured list.

more PC bullshit.

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Shortstop has also been renamed “Stop of short stature”.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Someone tweeted that Manfred was ruining the game of baseball as a response to this.

The MLB Network Radio guys this morning (Steve Phillips, Eduardo Perez, Jim Bowden) just ripped the shit out of almost all of the proposed rule changes this morning. They said that games would actually get longer, and pitchers would be more likely to be hurt.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Pfffft. It only matters what KLaw thinks about them.

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Nate Silver has weighed in and claims that forcing pitchers to face three batters is not the answer. Instead, he thinks limiting the number of pitchers on a roster to 10, plus one emergency pitcher (like a hockey emergency goalie) will speed up the game and cut down on strike outs. Not a bad read. For those interested, the link is here:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/re ... to-fix-it/

Relief pitchers are already treated like shit. Limiting them to 10 would make it worse. 1) Even MORE overuse 2) shipping guys back and forth from the minors. Starters are where the investment is. Those are the guys treated with kid gloves. Everyone else other than the closer is fodder.

I don't like the clock idea, I'm all for computerized strike zones. These young kids aren't baseball fans, that's fine..don't destroy the game for those of us that enjoy it to lure in millennials.

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His basic point is that if a guy pitches one inning or less, he's going to give max effort on every pitch and just try to strike guys out. If he pitches more than one inning his velocity goes down and his use of the slider goes down. Therefore, we should see fewer strike outs and a faster game if teams had to be more judicious about their use of pitchers because there were fewer of them available.

Who knows how it would play out in real life, but I'm up for trying anything that stems the parade of relievers we see late in games.