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MLB - Official 2012 Season Thread: Bringing in Bobby V to Change Our Culture |OT2|
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M's hitting with two outs. Time to work our way into the role of playoff spoilers.
shocking...
The Outsider
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LTTP but Freeman destroyed that ball earlier. Fucking awesome.
Mr. Enigma
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Oh look, the Diamondbacks defense is doing their Astros impression. How cute.
Dominican Power
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When McCutchen is not hitting and the pitching isn't good, Pirates lose.
CriginsMcJuggs
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So weird watchin us score runs all the time
One of the luckiest damn teams I have ever seen.
I haven't really seen too many of their games, why are they lucky? 70-43, that's pretty damn impressive
EDIT: Yeah, so Jaso is easily the best hitter on this damn team
God I miss Sylar.
I mentioned it a day or two ago, but a lot of their roster took huge unexpected leaps forward (hey Gio, what's up) mixed with a lack of key injuries and day to day shit like this last inning of theirs, or what the Astros did a few days ago.
CriginsMcJuggs
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Pff, we've been missing major players at any point during the year. Morse+Storen, Werth just came back, Desmond has been out for a few weeks now coming back soon. The key has been our farm system, with Lombo and Moore and Harper all contributing more than they have any right to.
Edit: And there's another
Mr. Enigma
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If the last week or two has been any indication, teams they play turn totally incompetent against them.
I think actually the key has been Gio Gonzalez magically turning into one of the best pitchers in baseball, Strasburg staying healthy, and Zimmermann and Detwiler both having ERAs almost a full run lower than their FIPs.
And Harper has been decent. A 103 wRC+ is nothing to scoff at, especially for a 19 year old. But in itself, it's not that much of a contribution.
darkside31337
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Rays win! Always nice taking care of business against AAA teams.
Ian Desmond, Gio, Bernadina, Zimmermann, and Detwiller i'd say have been the surprises. Detwiller is pitching way over his head as well as Zimmermann although he always had potential. Oh course then you have players like Zimmerman who is under performing, although the past few weeks he has picked it up. I knew they would be a 85-90 win team, but not a 95-100 win team. boothisman.gif
(it would have been nice if the braves starting staff didn't turn to shit too)
If you are a two pitch starting pitcher, you better make sure those two pitches stay incredibly effective.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
which terms were confusing to you?
he isn't throwing his changeup anymore, although he never really threw it much in the first place. Think he just mainly throws various fastballs with different movement and a few curveballs now. Velocity going down probably had something to do with his shittyness.
Just a few of the acronyms, but I looked them up. It also took me a second to get that 500 meant 50%. Coming from Ireland, I've never really encountered a sport that was so sort of stat based. Actually, only exposure to anything like baseball was playing rounders as a kid.
Dominican Power
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LULZ @ this little league game between Hawaii and Norcal.
Yeah, typically in american sports winning percentages are measured out of 1000. If you need any questions answered about what the stats mean and how to interpret them, just feel free to ask here!
Cool, Nationals against the Diamondbacks is what's on TV here tomorrow night. Washington seem like the in-form team, so hopefully that should be good.
Dmncnby2k9
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And against the Padres. They lucky Votto gonna miss sum more games. Keep things close
Mr. Enigma
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ffs Diamondbacks
Lead-off double by Hill and nothing
Lead-off double by Hill and nothing
Dmncnby2k9
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Does baseball get any coverage in your country?
Pretty much none. There's a channel called ESPN America that shows it, but other than that there's no real media attention. In terms of American sports, NFL is definitely the most popular thing over here.
Dominican Power
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Baseball Tonight is so trash. What has happened to ESPN?
sf2fanatic
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They all went to MLBN
Dominican Power
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Europeans should play more baseball.
wartime1020
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Watching Micheal Gonzalez pitch is aggravating.
Mr. Enigma
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Another choke by the fuckface Diamondbacks. Gonzalez was all over the place and no one did anything.
Ninja Scooter
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does Mike Trout do anything wrong?
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