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If only statcast had the technology to measure the launch angle and exit velocity of yankee balls that have been hit off of your chin.

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Good fucking riddance. 

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10 hours ago, dbecks said:

Gah... the Astros took it up a notch all of a sudden.  The LMJ elbow issues are effing scary, though. 

"Forearm stiffness" is not what you want to hear. 

And it sounds like he knows it:

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"I'm hopeful because that's who I am," McCullers said after the Astros routed the Los Angeles Dodgers 14-0. "I feel like it's gotta be OK. I don't know. I'm hopeful that it's going to be good news. But I'll deal with it. Whatever's done is done. I'm looking forward to an opportunity to help the team again, whenever the time comes again."

 

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Nice little return on $500. 

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The National Sports Collectors Convention arguably has never had a more exciting moment in its 39 years than what happened Friday in Cleveland.

Vintage Breaks, a company that offers collectors a chance to buy spots in unopened packs of vintage cards, charged $500 for spots in a 1955 Bowman pack. 

On a stage, wired up to the crowd, owner Leighton Sheldon screamed when he saw the second-to-last card in the pack.

"My eyes bulged out of my head," Sheldon said.

What Sheldon saw was the most valuable card in the set: a Mickey Mantle, which appeared to be in pristine condition.

Some 375 miles east of Cleveland, Chris Rothe was finishing up his job as a third-generation bookbinder in Maryland when he decided to check the archived videos of the pack openings from earlier in the day. Rothe, who randomly got the 19th card that was to be opened in the pack, discovered that he was the proud new owner of the Mantle card.

"My friend told me my face went pale white when I saw it," Rothe said. "I was weak in the knees."

Rothe said he knew immediately that he would sell the card.

"I have the card in a 3 [on a 10 scale]," he said. "That's good enough. I'll use the money to get a [Roberto] Clemente rookie and maybe get a lower-graded Mantle rookie."

But the price Rothe expected to get for the card has risen significantly.

On Saturday morning, Sheldon returned to the convention and took the card to be graded by PSA, considered the industry's authority on the condition of cards. Three hours later, PSA returned with a grade of 9 out of 10 (a PSA 10 card is deemed to be in virtually perfect condition and gives the card its highest possible value).

It marked only the eighth time that PSA gave a 1955 Mantle Bowman card a 9 grade. Sheldon said he was told by PSA officials that it was the first time in more than two decades that they had graded that card a 9.

The last PSA 9 for the 1955 Mantle Bowman sold for $35,089. All day, Sheldon was working the show and the phones. By 7 p.m. ET Saturday, Sheldon had an offer for $50,000 for the card.

Rothe won't be the only one who will come away a big winner from a future sale. So, too, will Sheldon. His Vintage Breaks company, which has existed for a year, has never had such a high-profile pull. His greatest success to date was when a Michael Jordan rookie card was pulled from a pack of 1986 Fleer basketball. A collector paid $2,000 for the right to the unknown card before the pack was opened. Given its condition, the Jordan rookie was worth about $5,000.

 

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Braves/Mets game is fun

Acuna with a 2 strike, 2 out hit to take the lead in the top of the 9th.

Mets answer with a solo homer near the boundary

And caray and Simpson are still idiots because they can’t see the ball hit the sign behind the top of the wall first, not the orange border on the top of the wall.

 

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2 hours ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

Cubs game.  Baez out on slide into third but CB Bucknor calls him safe.  Then Baez starts towards home a bit,, and is thrown out at third (again) and called Bucknor calls him safe again.  Replay overturned it, but good lord.

 

 

This is great.

https://www.mlb.com/video/baez-out-stealing-after-review/c-2351289383?tid=63817564

To be fair, those are really tough calls, especially for an ump as bad as CB Bucknor.

And that's again horrible baserunning by Baez.  

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

Was wondering about that.  He then stole 3rd, right?  Were they still in the shift then?

I think Sano moved over some, but it wasn’t gonna matter. Merrifield led off with a single, then Garver hosed him trying to steal. Next 3 steals that inning were all without a throw, Morrison played behind Duda & just let him go. 

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9 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

I’m not sure Bucknor even realized he had a play coming until the very last second of the steal. 

I loved how Villanueva started running off the field and Baez pointed to the dugout to tell them to challenge.

And then, "SAFE!!!"

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8 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I have to be up at 7am, I'm watching one more inning of this back alley rusty handsaw abortion and that's it no matter what. Fuck this goddamn motherfucking team. Fucking christ. 

Judge and Sanchez can hurry up and get healed. That’d be nice 

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14 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I have to be up at 7am, I'm watching one more inning of this back alley rusty handsaw abortion and that's it no matter what. Fuck this goddamn motherfucking team. Fucking christ. 

I figured you would have eaten a bullet after the bottom of the 9th.  Congrats on still being alive.

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