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  • #346
    Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

    First pitches are dangerous.

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    • #347
      Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

      The Moral Panic Circus is starting up again, about netting. It's got everything: an imperiled child, a dead mother; many tubs will be thumped before this round is over.

      Good thing there are no real problems in the country to drum up action about.
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      • #348
        Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        The Moral Panic Circus is starting up again, about netting. It's got everything: an imperiled child, a dead mother; many tubs will be thumped before this round is over.

        Good thing there are no real problems in the country to drum up action about.
        I thought you were one of the posters lecturing me that just because there are larger problems to solve, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fix all problems?

        All teasing aside, there really is no reason in the world that people are still getting crushed by baseballs along the foul ball lines. First, the technology (netting) exists and has been used for eternity. The reason we have it behind home plate is to prevent people from getting crushed by foul balls. The myth we keep telling ourselves is that only those seats behind home plate are in a position where we can't defend ourselves.

        I think I posted this a couple of years ago, but one of the Universities out west (maybe Oregon or Washington) has a sports science division. They did a study on the dangers of foul balls, and Bryant Gumbel had them on his HBO show.

        Basically, they set up a plexiglass wall a certain distance from a pitching machine, approximately the same distance as someone sitting in the first few rows of the first section of seats beyond the outfield end of the dugout. They then had volunteers sit in a chair behind the wall as the pitching machine shot baseballs at them at a rate of about 95-100 mph, about the same velocity as a baseball coming off a bat when lined foul.

        Even those people who knew the ball was coming and were staring at the pitching machine had little or no shot of ducking or fending off the ball. If you were talking to a friend but still paying attention to the game, or eating or drinking something, you'd be in the ambulance before you knew what happened.

        If you sit in those seats without netting in front of you, the only reason you haven't had your face caved in by a line shot is the bullet has missed you. You have no control over it.
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        • #349
          Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

          Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
          I thought you were one of the posters lecturing me that just because there are larger problems to solve, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fix all problems?
          I knew this was coming. Guilty.

          My advice to fans is to put down your cell phone, especially if you bring your brat along.
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          • #350
            Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            I knew this was coming. Guilty.

            My advice to fans is to put down your cell phone, especially if you bring your brat along.
            That's excellent advice, if for no other reason than they'll reduce the amount they annoy me.

            I love attending mlb games, and I love sitting close to the field. But after seeing that HBO show, I'm either sitting behind the netting, or I'm going far enough down the foul line that I at least have a fighting chance.
            That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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            • #351
              Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

              These Pittsburgh Crawfords uniforms are beautiful.
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              • #352
                Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

                Draft time.

                4 minutes to #1 selection.
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                • #353
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                  To no ones surprise.

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                    • #355
                      Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

                      Seattle can make bonehead plays too!


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                      • #356
                        Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

                        McCutchen out for the season with a torn ACL. Not that I like the Phillies or anything, but this makes me sad.

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                        • #357
                          Re: MLB 2019: Every Year at Playoff Time, The Dodgers Find A Way to Choke.

                          Originally posted by MissThundercat View Post
                          Seattle can make bonehead plays too!
                          That throw was perfect.
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                          • #358
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                            Yes it was. Holy cow.
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                            • #359
                              Originally posted by jen View Post
                              McCutchen out for the season with a torn ACL. Not that I like the Phillies or anything, but this makes me sad.
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                              • #360
                                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                                That throw was perfect.
                                Woulda been out at the plate!
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