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Huckleberry

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  1. 3 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    i'm not saying it's right, but i get it.  if it's 7-0 in the 9th with 2 out and a guy tries to bunt, i understand if the team wants to get snippy in interviews.

    a lot of the media is ripping "unwritten rules" in baseball.  while some rules are stupid and some are not, this isn't one at all.  they should be ripping whomever thinks this falls under that category, not ripping the overall idea of "unwritten rules" in baseball.

    Very true, as someone said in Twitterland somewhere, if it's okay to play a shift up by 7 in the ninth inning then it's okay to bunt against it.

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  2. 1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

    yeah, i'm late to the game on this one.  if it's not a no-hitter up 5+ runs then what the fuck?  i get that a shutout is a great achievement for a young pitcher, but it doesn't count any more in the standings, and nobody knows who leads the league in shutouts every year.  the orioles are hitting like shit.  if i was a coach or a veteran, i would be encouraging anything that could stir a rally and wake up the bats for upcoming games.

    really surprised so many twins are having the reaction they're having.

    Doesn't matter if it's a no-hitter or a perfect game. I hate that unwritten rule just as much. Why the fuck should the defense get to overplay certain things and make a no-hitter more likely by shifting but the batter has to swing away? Why not just play all 7 fielders on the right side of the diamond in that situation? 

    It cheapens the accomplishment of a no-hitter or perfect game if the batter has his options for getting a hit or getting on base artificially limited by some stupid unwritten code. The entire greatness of a perfect game or no-hitter is that you have successfully defended 27 consecutive 100% effort attempts to get on base or get a base hit in a single game. If the last three outs are only 90% effort then it's not as special.

    If a team plays an absurd shift with two outs in the ninth inning of a perfect game against my team I would hope the batter bunts. Actually what I would hope is that the batter turns around, looks the catcher in the eye, and tells him "if you pull that shit then I'm going to bunt."

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  3. 1 hour ago, udaydanceparty said:

    Pro-Life outnumbers gun control advocates in this country. Even in that demographic. 

    Sex and martial status are the variables that seem to have the biggest impact on whether or not someone supports gun control/abortion.

    Married men are more likely to oppose gun control vs an unmarried man by around 10%.  Women are more in favor of gun control but once they are married, they are less likely to support gun control by~10%.  It seems to be that the people that are actually fucking seem to want to keep their guns.  The fat single women and soy boys seem to want to disarm everyone.

    Well that makes sense I guess.

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  4. 8 hours ago, DarthBalls said:

    I walked out of Black Panther. They had a car chase in Korea for no reasons and there was some CGI and i realized that i just no longer gave a fuck what happened. i had seen Annihilation the week before and i think it ruined me. It was pure art; it was everything that cinema can be. It blew my fucking mind.

    This marvel shit is just shit. Over produced shit. I've had enough. No more star wars or marvel for me  (at least in the theater) ever again. Harrumph. 

    I mean, i loved winter soldier, I loved GoTG and Ragnorak but these seem to be exceptions to the rule. 

    Hates overproduction, loves Ragnarok.

    Okay.

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  5. 20 hours ago, BigBenBamboozle said:

    Personally, I thought Thor: Ragnarok was far superior as a Marvel movie, as my tastes for superhero movies slides more into the meta-narratives of Deadpool and Guardians, as well as Civil War, Winter Soldier, both Guardians movies, and the original Avengers powered by Whedon's clever scriptwriting.  Thoughts on where Black Panther ranks in the Marvel hierarchy? 

    Ragnarok is waaaay more overrated than Black Panther.

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