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Hammerin Hank

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  1. The body cam footage somehow makes it look even worse. The dog was clearly playing. No aggression, no growling, no showing teeth. Just bouncing back and forth like dogs do when they’re excited and playing. Also, what a cowardly response from the police department. Just fucking pathetic. I shouldn’t have watched that video
  2. My sympathies go out to the Swindell family, and I hope the situation gets resolved swiftly and in a positive manner. That's for another thread though so I'll leave it at that. I have to disagree with some of the things being said about the intelligence of baseball players. I played at the college level(not at Texas), and I never had a chin beard, never owned a pair of Oakleys, and never drove a jacked up truck. I played with a lot of highly intelligent players in high school and college. I played with someone who is now a doctor, someone who is now a lawyer, someone who went to Princeton and now works on Wall Street, someone who went to the Naval Academy and also has a master's degree. Even some of the players who majored in education and/or kinesiology took Algebra III, Calculus II, and Differential Equations in college. I'm sure at the professional level there are more players who seem like dumbasses, but just because they are uneducated doesn't mean they are not intelligent. As others have said, baseball is known as the thinking man's sport. I don't understand how some of y'all can say you can just turn off your brain and play ball. You should be thinking constantly when playing baseball. The situation changes from pitch to pitch. If you're batting you need to be thinking about the pitcher's tendencies in certain situations so you can anticipate a pitch. You also need to be thinking about the current situation so you know what you need to do to have a successful at bat. If you're fielding you need to know what the batter's tendencies are, and be thinking about what you're going to do when the ball comes to you. When you're pitching you need to be thinking about what pitches the batter likes, and how you can get him to swing at your pitch. There's no turning your brain off if you're trying to play competitively. I will challenge some of y'all to go read I Had A Hammer by Hank Aaron or The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams. I'm sure there are other displays of intelligence out there, but those are the first that come to my mind. Read those books, and then come talk about the intelligence of baseball players.
  3. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 503 9/9: Rarity: 22 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩
  4. I might have to go back in time and see the dinosaurs
  5. My wife and I enjoyed it. Just finished last night. Several laugh out loud moments in each episode. I’m curious about when they shot this. There was a reference to hawk tuah in one episode, and that seems too recent for this to already be airing.
  6. That would have gone 600 feet if stadium wasn’t in the way
  7. Maybe this will lead to some common sense gun reform
  8. That was an amazing throw by Yainer! Let’s get the bats going, and go get a win !
  9. Maybe you should worry about the talking points that adversely affect those that are less fortunate than you
  10. I would think it would have been escheated to the state as unclaimed property by now. Search for it at claimittexas.gov and file a claim
  11. He was out at third
  12. I think he’s out
  13. Um, excuse me. There’s beer to drink and baseball to watch. My schedule is completely booked
  14. Is aggy wearing navy blue hats?
  15. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 431 9/9: Rarity: 142 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩
  16. It would sure be nice if our bats would wake the fuck up about now
  17. Holy shit that ump hasn’t been calling the low pitch all day and then he calls that?
  18. Wow! Perfectly executed
  19. Agree. We’ve had multiple chances to add
  20. It would be really nice if we could have saved Dre for tomorrow
  21. He’s out
  22. This ump is squeezing us now. After expanding when we were batting
  23. I’m pretty sure this is the same crew from the OU series that didn’t overturn a clear tag out at 2nd base. And they’re going to overturn that HBP? Oh well, got the DP anyway
  24. That did not hit him
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