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Huckleberry

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  1. Always love this stuff. Even the ones who think they're reasonable are just saying "come on man I just want to pay less while getting more in return."
  2. He's on pace for 72.2 IP this season, basically the same as last year. I will blame Espada for when he uses Hader but the volume isn't really an issue to me. Doesn't mean he won't need to be used less as he ages but wasn't really that foreseeable when going from age 30 to age 31.
  3. I think Hader could match Pressly's spin rate right-handed these days.
  4. After taking advantage of a lucky draw in the regional, Richmond Lamar got a terrible draw in Williamsport. They did not get a bye and if they win their first game they play Hawaii coming off a first round bye so will face the best pitcher the West champs have to offer.
  5. Plus when you do stupid shit like type "fvck" you are not being any less profane than if you had just typed the word correctly. The entire point of words is to communicate an idea to the reader or listener. When you type "fvck" the reader knows exactly what you meant and interprets it accordingly. It is still profane, it is still cursing. Literally the only thing it accomplishes is making you look like a pussy.
  6. Oh good, you regret it after it's too late. Fuck you.
  7. Yep they need to reconfigure the regionals based on population. That way they can seem fair while really doing it for competitive reasons. California and Texas should have 4 teams in the regional round instead of 2 if North Dakota has 1. Florida should probably have 2 or 3. Et cetera. Hell they could get the regionals to be awesome and even with 8 teams in each of the 10 regionals by adding extra teams from the highest population states until they get to 80. Then you would hope not to have teams like this North Dakota squad in a televised regional championship game. But then again this was one of the only 8 team regionals, maybe they just ran out of steam. A little crazy that in a regional with Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin the last 3 teams were the Dakotas and Nebraska.
  8. They built a big complex for the Central Region there. Which is apparently still a structural thing even though it's not a competitive region. But I agree.
  9. As the doctor said, just playing nonstop all year causes issues. Plus while there are pitch count rules they are routinely not enforced and the kids playing in multiple organizations and multiple sanctioning bodies (e.g., playing LL and PG) certainly don't always keep one organization updated on what they threw for the other one.
  10. Helobious magic has already struck as the defending world champions Lake Mary, FL were just eliminated by South Carolina. SC is the second US team to qualify for Williamsport.
  11. As written either both players or the second one and almost certainly the manager specifically because it was multiple players. Note that it doesn't say they "may" be ejected, it says they shall be. Agreed that the West champion and Florida are better, but Lamar and Eastbank are essentially equal. Eastbank won 7-5 then Lamar won 5-2.
  12. Congrats to Richmond Lamar. First team to join the US bracket in Williamsport.
  13. Big review in the Southeast Regional, they get it right. Virginia/South Carolina semi.
  14. Starting to look like a major league lineup again. If Yordan Alvarez wasn't the Cuban Greg Oden at least.
  15. Yeah that was a terrible final decision by Little League. I love Little League but if you don't enforce the rules you are asking for problems. There is zero reason now for any tournament team not to relay signals from second base until they're caught twice. The book said that player and probably manager should have been ejected.
  16. LLWS doesn't start until next Wednesday 8/13 but Richmond Lamar LL plays Eastbank LL from Kenner, LA at 6pm today for the Southwest Region title and a spot in Williamsport. Lamar got both breaks in the format by having the only first round bye in the 7 team tournament and now only having to beat Eastbank once due to the "Wichita State" made for TV format. Lamar's team appears to be mostly the Lamar Elite travel club based on a quick glance earlier. As always, unpage.org is a great resource for pre-LLWS results. https://unpage.org/
  17. I like your idea of surgically attaching the brace directly to the bone.
  18. How many fan forums already have threads about how "Texas always gets overranked like this in the preseason" completely oblivious to the fact this is our first preseason #1 ranking ever? Texags is of course the center square on the bingo card if you're playing at home.
  19. Do you think aging doesn't affect people? What a dumb take. And other than Nico (who beat him once and was his equal for 3 seasons) when were the other two in the same car?
  20. He was barely Russell's equal at Mercedes and now he's slower than Leclerc. Ever since he hasn't had the fastest car in the field by far he is merely a decent F1 driver.
  21. Now that Hamilton has come out and said it himself maybe the media coverage will stop acting like he's one of the best drivers. https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/45885854/lewis-hamilton-mulls-ferrari-driver-change-hungary-grand-prix
  22. I remember the first time I yelled "BREAK HIS FUCKING NECK!" at a TX/OU game and an older woman in Texas gear looked at me with a horrified look on her face. Then I said "well I hope he recovers and has a good life but just can't play football anymore" and she just nodded in a way that indicated okay that's acceptable.
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