Where are the Ligue boys when you need them?

Joe West has been the worst umpire in the league for a long long time. Tossing Anderson in a close game was bullshit to begin with but that is just Joe West's mantra. He has hated the White Sox ever since he got into the league and makes stupid decision after stupid decision. Also, the Royals are a dirty baseball team and have been for a long time also and someone should have taken their cheap shot manager apart.

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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 didn't watch the game. I was helping a buddy out with a pitcher on his team who is struggling. The kid is teachable so I love doing this stuff.

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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

Next time we see KC I hope Timmy hits another bomb and throws the bat 20 feet in the fucking air.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The best umpires are the guys who just do their job and do not intentionally become part of the game itself. West loves to be the center of attention and basically BAITS players and managers to say something or act some way and then he gets his rocks off by tossing him. There is another guy who is about as bad as West but I forget his last name. I think his first name is Angel.

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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

Chicago has a hot shot, brash infielder that plays with intensity, hustle and attitude.


I love this guy!

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Next time Timmy strikes out against KC and the pitcher does a fist pump, he should whip the bat at him.

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Mid season fan form. I like it.

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Elections have consequences.

The Ligues are the heroes we need at this moment

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Not all heroes wear capes. Or shirts.

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I was just telling a friend how much I love kind of the exact same thing . Watching a kid struggle then grind his ass off to succeed is as good as it gets.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Yeah. One of my key messages to kids is to try different things in order to get movement on pitches. This includes different grips and pressure points, moving the ball back in their grip, cutting the ball and moving around on the rubber to go with their release point and wrist action. If a ball moves, then try the same thing again and again and again until it becomes a part of your "stuff".

I think that way too many pitching coaches try and mold young pitchers into a set motion and technique. And I have had some kids so brainwashed by some of their teachers that they really resist trying to break away from their programmed instruction and so do their parents. One of the first things that I always asked these guys is who taught them how to pitch and then adjusted accordingly. I always then follow up with, how did that work out for you? Getting hitters out?

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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

That's because repetitive motion means more consistent strikes. You must be very lucky to have kids who throw strikes at will. Most coaches aren't that lucky.

I specifically worded this above so it could describe Tim Anderson and/or Javier Baez. Some of the same media that spanks Anderson over it praises Baez for the same characteristics.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Absolutely true.

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Elections have consequences.

If only there was a way to prevent this type of stuff from happening.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

If you don't want to see somebody celebrate a Homer, don't give em up.

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Isn't the flip side of advocating the freedom to express pleasure, the freedom to express displeasure?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

The bat flip is a form of taunting. I mean I get it if it's a game winner, but to be that emotional over an early inning home run against the Royals? And look at the end result? It got him tossed.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

He got tossed because Joe West is an genius.

A HR in the 4th inning of a mid April game does seem like an odd spot for the bat toss, but so what.

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I have no issue with the bat flip or any of that crap. Same with the pitchers fist pumping after a SO. My problem is they fucking lost the game. The team is 7-10....you got ZERO to chirp about. Nice HR....just looks pretty silly when your team sucks.

and yes....Joe West needs to be sent to an all you can eat buffet restaurant far far away from an MLB stadiums.

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I could see the argument that bat flips bring in younger fans because it's over the top and frankly childish. If Anderson added a Fortnite dance he would be a meme, but it's taunting. And it ended up hurting the team.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I personally don't care about bat flipping. There is a struggle though to play it as big bad white players being against Latin (moreso supposedly do to culture there) and Black players rights of expression. I fully expect Bernsie to do a show on this today.

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I am not sure how a bat flip brings the young in other than they are imitation the big leaguers. In that case it is a catch 22 right? I feel it is more be like the NFL/NBA. MLB and Golf were more calm.

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I say let em flip the bat and then the pitcher gets one "free" pitch to bean him with. No need for brawls, ejections,etc.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I think that for most kids, that they have their own way of delivering a ball based on their natural motion. 99% of kids learn how to throw the ball straight at a target before they ever learn to pitch. So it is that throwing motion that I work with. I am talking about coaches who try and reinvent a kid's throwing motion and I do not do that. First thing that I do is teach balance, landing spot, and release point. The next usually is for the kid to work backwards, namely that where a ball goes after thrown is due to those three things, balance, landing spot and release point.

But in very few instances do I try and drastically change a kid's natural delivery. I had a kid once who loved to throw almost submarine. When I got him he was 13 years old and was cut from his high school team because the coach didn't like his motion and tried to change him. So I worked with the kid and changed a couple of things including to go more side-arm than submarine which improved his ability to throw strikes and he ended up making a travel ball team and the varsity of his school the next year as a reliever.

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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 do not like bat flipping in general as a way of dissing the pitcher. And if you do it, then expect to get nailed with a pitch.. I don't think hitting Anderson in the butt was something bad either. He hit him with a breaking ball for cripes sake. But West totally blew the punishment to Anderson. A good umpire would have tossed the pitcher, warned Renteria and the Sox pitcher and the Royals manager. But Anderson should not have gotten tossed and that was because Abreu took him out of the action. West could have also warned him to shut the fuck up and go to his base.

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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

Pitchers just need to pound their chests and do cartwheels after every K.

Tim Anderson with two more hits today. If Abreu could hit this would be a very good offense.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Give Nova some credit for working into the 7th inning the day after the bullpen was heavily used. He clearly deoesn't/didn't have his best stuff.

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