10-05-2012, 07:53 PM
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#721
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Scoring Winger
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If this baseball season is a movie, a double play ball is coming up soon and Saunders will go 6 strong
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10-05-2012, 07:53 PM
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#722
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I`m rooting for either an Orioles-Nationals or Giants-A`s World Series. Those would be some pretty intense series considering the hatred between the franchises and fans.
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Maybe a Bay Area resident can help us, but I don't think A's fans and Giants fans hate each other. Different leagues.
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10-05-2012, 07:56 PM
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#723
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Oakland and San Francisco sports fans, and just people in general, just don`t like each other at all. The 49ers and Raiders have stopped playing in preseason because there were too many brawls and stabbings at games.
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10-05-2012, 07:57 PM
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#724
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Scoring Winger
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That is a huge double play ball. Josh Hamilton is going to get big time paid this offseason but whoever signs him is taking on some major risks not just off the field, but on the field as well. Best thing Texas could do unless he'll take a hometown discount, is let him walk.
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10-05-2012, 07:58 PM
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#725
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Oakland and San Francisco sports fans, and just people in general, just don`t like each other at all. The 49ers and Raiders have stopped playing in preseason because there were too many brawls and stabbings at games.
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Plus 1 for someone who's lived in the San Fran. it's got less to do with the A's and Giants then it does with the two cities.
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10-05-2012, 08:03 PM
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#727
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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I didn't think the protest would win, but I mean if ever there was one that should, this would be it. One game "series" makes this call even worse. Not that somehow it wouldn't be awful if there was a three game series, but at least Atlanta would get another chance.
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10-05-2012, 08:06 PM
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#728
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Scoring Winger
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I still think Texas is the best team in baseball but It's a crime against baseball that Michael Young is starting and batting 6th in a playoff game.
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10-05-2012, 08:07 PM
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#729
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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They should have called the game in the 8th instead of letting fans influence the outcome of the game. Braves fans really embarrassed themselves. Bad calls happen, they choked the game away themselves.
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10-05-2012, 08:21 PM
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#730
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Apartment 5A
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I am going to protest Adidas products.
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10-05-2012, 08:46 PM
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#731
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nfotiu
They should have called the game in the 8th instead of letting fans influence the outcome of the game. Braves fans really embarrassed themselves. Bad calls happen, they choked the game away themselves.
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To brush it off as "bad calls happen" is pretty disingenous. This will go down as an infamous bad call that will be replayed on sports shows years down the road with other bad calls that have lived on.
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10-05-2012, 08:52 PM
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#732
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Also, did anyone else feel bad for Chipper Jones at the end of the game. He looked like he was ready to go back on the field to salute the fans one last time as an active player, which is always an emotional moment for players, but the fans just didn't seem to give a **** at that moment as they were caught up in the controversy.
He kind of looked out at the crowd a couple of times from the dugout, as if he was seeing if they would settle down and want to send him off, but as the booing and bottle throwing continued, he just put his head down and went to the locker room. Kind of a sad moment.
The crappy part is, a small portion of the fans were chanting his name for a curtain call soon after he left, but the damage was done.
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10-05-2012, 08:52 PM
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#733
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flameswin
To brush it off as "bad calls happen" is pretty disingenous. This will go down as an infamous bad call that will be replayed on sports shows years down the road with other bad calls that have lived on.
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It wasn't really even a wrong call. Would be hard to say it definitively wasn't called according to the rule book. And I've definitely seen infield flies called that deep in other games this year. The big argument is that it was called late. So what. The late call benefitted the running team, not the cards.
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10-05-2012, 09:03 PM
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#734
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nfotiu
It wasn't really even a wrong call. Would be hard to say it definitively wasn't called according to the rule book. And I've definitely seen infield flies called that deep in other games this year. The big argument is that it was called late. So what. The late call benefitted the running team, not the cards.
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It was the wrong call and it's not even debatable in my opinion., it was also called by a Left field umpire who had no business calling it. It was a huge blow to the Braves in one of the most key positions of the game. Fans should be outraged, they handled it in a pretty ugly way.
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10-05-2012, 09:17 PM
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#736
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Oklahoma - Where they call a puck a ball...
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Here is Chipper's response about the Infield Fly call
"CHIPPER JONES: Well, ultimately I think that when we look back on this loss, we need to look at ourselves in the mirror. We put ourselves in that predicament, down 6 2. You know, that call right there is kind of a gray area. I don't know. But I'm not willing to say that that particular call cost us the ballgame. Ultimately, three errors cost us the ballgame, mine probably being the biggest. Did it cost us one out? Did it cost us one run, possibly more? Yes. But I'm not willing to sit here and say that that call cost us the ballgame."
Here is the whole interview ..
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10-05-2012, 09:20 PM
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#737
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Scoring Winger
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Good for ol Chipper to take the high road there. Let the fans and every analysts rip the umpires for one of the worst calls I've ever seen.
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10-05-2012, 09:48 PM
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#738
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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Did I lost here that if Soto starts behind the plate the Rangers lose?
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10-05-2012, 10:24 PM
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#739
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Franchise Player
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How long does tbs have the baseball playoff rights for? Can't stand tbs.
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10-05-2012, 10:31 PM
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#740
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: City by the Bay
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nfotiu
LAnd I've definitely seen infield flies called that deep in other games this year.
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No you haven't. Where? When? Which game? It was 225 feet from home. I can't believe you've seen one further out this season, or ever, than that.
One of the worst calls I can remember across sports. The call in the Rams-Packers game was significantly closer than this.
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