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Provus mentioned on the radio while Prince was getting walked for the second time for Casey that RR said something to the effect that a .250 hitter that has the player in front of him intentionally walked, becomes a .270 hitter at that point. I didn't catch the context as to if they were refering to why Casey would not be pinch hit for or if its why he doesn't like intentionally walking hitters. Both probably though.

Noooooo I was too slow.? Stupid getting stuck in traffic.? I've been waiting since this thread started for this http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

Fixed that for you. 9 in a row against Houston. They must be the new Pirates.

Does that mean he assumed they wanted it like that, or that he actually spoke with them and that's what they wanted?

Boras won't be happy when the entire team shows up at the negotiating table and try to force Prince to resign.

The fact that Green did not get an opportunity to hit today is sickening. Hey look, we made it a save situation.

So it looks like a call went infavor of the cards, what will Larussa think of that? To me it did look like he was bringing the bat back, but whether it was to get out of the way or just deaden the ball, I'm not sure. Imagine the blow up if it had been ruled a HBP. That would have been fun to see. Which of you forgot to pay the ump last night?

Since the IGT was locked, I wasn't sure where to post this, and sorry if the "discussion" from it continues here, this isn't meant for that. Since it hit his hand shouldn't it have been a dead ball or a hbp, to me it looked like he was trying to pull the bat back? I'm guessing the ump was blocked from it and just assumed it hit the bat since the ball went fair, or am I missing something about the hand being part of the bat since it was up by the barrel?

That day is one of the BP come on back club promotion games. That's how I got tickets to it...I remembered later it was opening day. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/ohwell.gif But still plan on going.

I am amazed that my prediction is still possible, and we have to lose games to make it happen. I will be ok if I'm wrong though.

I wonder if RR even bothers to send a signal to Yuni on a hit and run, assuming he will be swinging no matter what... Stupid Quade bringing in a lefty to pitch when Yo's spot came up in the 7th. End the conspiracy against Taylor Green!

One of their infielders was trying to get Morgan at third and overthrew Ramirez and the ball went into the dugout.

Thanks for the info.

And there was much rejoicing. Brb, gotta go edit my sig.

Whats the story on this? I think I saw the game where they explained it, but didn't catch the first part where they actually explained it. I just assumed they were making fun of a misspelled sign or something.

This proposed system is biased in favor of the offensive team. In the case of a blown call to the detriment of the offense, runners will be able to advance. In the case of a blow call to the detriment of the defense, the play will be deemed "dead" at the point of the blown call, with no opportunity to make further defensive plays. Indeed, you're willing to make assumptions that even if the play was made runners may be able to advance anyway. I just tried to come up with a system that was the most fair. The reason they would be able to advance is because they would be able to advance anyway. With a runner on third whether its caught or it falls in, the runner can run home. I'm basically the rules they already have set up and applying them to new scenarios. Is there a specific scenario that you don't agree with? In any event, there is a whole lot of subjectivity in this system. It seems more than a bit counterintuitive to me to say the "We need a more objective way of making close calls, but the only way to make the system work is to inject a healthy dose of subjective after-the-fact conjecture." That's what replay is though. It's correcting a mistake and then trying to figure out what would have happened without the mistake.As for "ase runners aren't going to be venturing far anyway because they know it might be caught": Have you seen the (insert-a-team-here) baserunning this season? I'm not sure what you mean here. From what I see on plays like this, players will go about half way where they can make it to the next base if it falls, but back if it's caught with players on third usually hanging around the base so they can tag up and score if need be.

You also forgot stuff like ball position and clock time that go into nfl replays as well. The way I would do it with men on base, is just have it be like a ground rule double. Maybe have a line, either in the grass or invisible, call it the double line, a certain distance from home plate where you would say if the ball landed here, the avg play would be a double. And if the disputed play happened in front of the line, then its a ground rule single, all base runners advance 1 base, and if it happens behind the line its a ground rule double and all base runners advance 2 bases. If a ball is ruled caught, but was trapped and a runner is picked off as a result then its a non-play. A base runner should not be punished for reading the play correctly, even if the ump didn't. If it's ruled not caught but was caught everyone goes back to their original base, with the exception of tagging up. Base runners aren't going to be venturing far anyway because they know it might be caught, and the ones that do are probably because there are 2 outs and its a non issue anyway. If a player would have successfully tagged up if the ruling had been correct, they get their base. It wouldn't be too hard to see that just use one of those side by side replays of the runner and fielder to see if he stayed and if hes tagged out he stays tagged out. I think that covers all scenarios, and wouldn't be all that hard to implement. The real question would be, is it gonna be like college where a booth initiates all replays, or like the nfl where the managers would get challenges? I'm in favor of having a booth controlling all the replays though. Why should a team be punished for umpires continue to blow calls in the other teams favor?

I forgot the game started at 6 instead of 7 and tuned in just in time for the start of the bottom of the second :/ I wonder if Uecker had time to pimp the Menards big inning promotion before it happened.

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Lets just get the best of both worlds. #2 seed and philly losing in the first round.

In the German language, you don't just add an s to make a noun plural, some do but most don't.

I don't know. I think he was right that every AAA scrub fails. Like Nieves and Almonte. Green, however, is not a AAA scrub, so I don't see where this is pertinent info.

Was at the game today and while there I noticed something weird. On one of those black advertisement tvs, I noticed a thing showing the Brewers top prospects. They were Wily Peralta, Cody Scarpetta, Kyle Heckathorn, and Jake Odorizzi. Can't blame them really, I mean its only been 8 months since that trade.

The thread title doesn't say "magical number", it says "magical magic number". I like it. But I have no clue who is in Hawing's picture http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

What if the bases were loaded? /halfblue