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5 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

I agree he used poor technique and misplayed it. I also think it was a wild pitch that an average catcher misses 60% of the time. I didn't see it as a play worth getting upset about. You disagree but I'm not sure what I said to deserve profanity and all caps.

Did you not see the reason? The whole, "bet you guys couldn't do it" was the ridiculous part. I could really care less that you or others think it shouldn't of been blocked. that doesn't bother me, what bothers me was your attitude or "You cant do it either" like it mattered.

I'm 53 years old and haven't caught a game in ten years. Of course I couldn't block that ball. I would have jumped out of the way of a 97 MPH fastball in the dirt! :D 

But the issue at hand was whether a major league catcher should have used proper technique to attempt to block that ball. Had he used proper technique and it squirted away, then you chalk it up to a bad bounce. When he lazily backhands it, when we've seen him do that too much this season is the issue at hand.

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Tony-OH Hangout Grand Counsel

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4 minutes ago, Malike said:

You're just embarrassing yourself now. Quit while you're behind perhaps? Maybe pull out the tough guy schtick and ban me, you know, a paying member in good standing over 15 years, but whatever man, this is your house and you can trash it any way you like and anyone who is in it.

I'm not going to ban you because I don't agree with you or got into it with you int ehg game thread. Stop being so dramatic. 

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Just now, Alasdaire said:

Actually though. A flamethrowing lefty out of the pen would possibly give us 7th/8th/9th guys, and it wouldn't cost all that much compared to the people who want to trade for a top of the rotation guy.

I think it’s much more likely they trade for an elite reliever than an elite starter. 

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24 minutes ago, Malike said:

97 spiked into the dirt, you anticipate that bounce with 100% accuracy and get back to me. Adley is $$$ on blocking pitches, no catcher is 100% in that area.

I agree it was a tough pitch to block. But he didn’t square up on it and he didn’t have his glove in the proper position.

He didn’t get in front of it.

Frobby recently talked about how the stats say he was the best at preventing WP last year and this year, he isn’t nearly as good.

I think that was a perfect example of why. 

Now, even if he did everything right, it’s not a guarantee that it would have been blocked but the chances would have been much higher had he used proper technique.

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1 minute ago, Alasdaire said:

Actually though. A flamethrowing lefty out of the pen would possibly give us 7th/8th/9th guys, and it wouldn't cost all that much compared to the people who want to trade for a top of the rotation guy.

In the playoffs we could get 6 innings easy out of Chapman Cano Bautista. We wouldn't need a starter.

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1 minute ago, Tony-OH said:

I'm not going to ban you because I don't agree with you or got into it with you int ehg game thread. Stop being so dramatic. 

Well stop calling me a jerk lol. You know I'm not a jerk! I get it, we're all frustrated lol.

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