"w00t" or "crap" Baseball Thread

[Buzzsaw]

[Quailman]

I own neither a belt buckle nor a Stetson.

[Jedo the Jedi]

I didn't say you were a hick Texan.
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[Zag]

[Jedo the Jedi]

Ouch. Is that a challenge to argue for Texas' superiority to Massachusetts?
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[Thok]

[Jedo the Jedi]

Definitely Massachusetts. I won't argue that it's better than every state. Obviously Oklahoma takes top prize.
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[Quailman]

UNBELIEVABLE!!!! The Cards advance again by scoring four in the ninth to win 9-7. They had two outs and a runner on third, still down by two. I wish I had been home to watch it instead of at a boy scout campout.

[Trojan Horse]

"Who do you think is going to win the World Series? A, the Tigers, or B..."

"B."

[Chuck]

Pablo Sandoval of The Giants has three home runs in his first three at bats. It's now 6 to 0 in the sixth inning.

[Chuck]

A single for Sandoval. Oh well. I changed channels to watch Jeopardy anyway.

[Chuck]

The Giants lead 2 to 0 in the middle of the second inning of game 3. They should invent an emergency mercy rule and end the series now.

[Chuck]

Giants 3, Tigers 2, seventh inning. I guess that wraps up the series for this year.

[Sniklac16]

Yeah Giants won the series unfortunately...Can someone please tell me though, why you would replace one of your best hitters with an unproven rookie? I mean I understand the lefty righty match up, but why in the bottom of the 10th with 1 out already and loosing a must win game send him in to pinch hit? I find it completely idiotic.
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[Undercover Monk]

Woot baseball is over now we can get back to the real sports of football and baseball.

ducks the tomatoes and foulballs sure to fly my way
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[groza528]

Monk, I'm glad you said that instead of a worse proofreader like UM.

[Quailman]

Pitchers and catchers reported to camp yesterday.

[Chuck]

The Diamondbacks intend to win with good management and unselfish play. I guess that means they don't have any good players at all.

[Chuck]

The Cubs are unbeatable. This is their year.

[Sniklac16]

The Indians are putting together a pretty good team. Signing Nick Swisher, Mark Reynolds, Michael Bourne, Drew Stubbs, Dice-K etc. It would be really entertaining to see a world series like Indians vs Cubs haha
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[Dread Pirate Westley]

For about an hour this afternoon the Cubs had sole possession of first place. That's the latest in the season that's happened since at least 2010.

[Chuck]

The Yankees' playoff hopes are now in ruins.

[Amb]

Its probably in here somewhere already, but I dont really know the difference between baseball and softball. I personally follow cricket like crazy. But I recently discovered that our New Zealand softball team is actually really good. Our cricket team is below average. The softball team just won a world championship, in which USA was a competitor. I was amazed at this, only to discover we have actually won 5 times - and a sixth comp was left open after rain. Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISF_Men%27s_World_Championship

But what isn't clear from the article is just how important this competition is on the world softball scale. Does anyone know? And i'm sorry if baseball purists are annoyed at a softball question in this thread - I only know rudimentary basics of the sport. I'm seriously tempted to start following the team to learn some stuff.

[Zag]

The games are not really that different. There's actually a third variant, slow-pitch softball, which is the one played by far more people, in the kind of setting where you are drinking beer while waiting for your turn at bat.

A softball is larger, heavier, and softer than a baseball. The field is smaller in softball, but it has the same basic shape. The rules about stealing bases is different in the two, mostly because of the smaller field and the fact that the ball can't be thrown as fast. (In slow-pitch softball, there is no stealing allowed at all.) Otherwise, the rules about what constitutes an out, a run, an inning, etc. are all basically the same.

I feel sure that someone will come on and say "OMG, they're completely different! You just don't know..." Ignore those people, they're too close to it. (My brother-in-law once tried to tell me that tennis played on asphalt vs. clay vs. grass are "completely different games." I pointed out that the same people tend to win on all the surfaces, whereas you don't see many ice hockey players winning on any of them. He conceded.) I have umpired both baseball and softball, and I promise you that, from a perspective of cricket or football, the two games are nearly identical.

[Quailman]

The Cardinals just swept a four game series in Milwaukee! Next up, two against the Cubs.

[Dread Pirate Westley]

Don't you mean the Hated Cardinals just swept the Cubs at Wrigley?

[Chuck]

As usual, The Yankees dominate their division.

[Quailman]

[Quailman]

...and this afternoon Adam Wainwright took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, settling for a 2-hit shutout.

[Chuck]