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Sanfran327 Hangout Grand Counsel

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Bell homers in his first at bat.

Move over Brooks....

Every time Bell hits a HR in Baltimore, they should show the clip from "Freddy Got Fingered" of Tom Green at the cheese sandwich factory yelling "DING-DONG! DING-DONG!"

That would make me smile.

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Not to be a negative nancy, but these are the kinds of infuriating mistakes from last year they are supposedly correcting in spring training. Just sayin'

Just because a decision doesn't work out doesn't mean it was a mistake. First, there's nothing wrong with being aggressive in a spring training game. Second, Markakis (or Trembley if it was a play called from the dugout) can't control where Wieters hits the ball. If it goes to 2nd or short, Markakis scores. If it's a flyball, he goes back, tags, and scores. The worst thing that could happen did, a sharply hit grounder to a corner infielder. Stuff happens and the other team has major league pitchers and fielders, too.

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Not to be a negative nancy, but these are the kinds of infuriating mistakes from last year they are supposedly correcting in spring training. Just sayin'

Wasn't really a mistake, Markakis was running on contact, Wieters hit it in a bad place, it happens sometimes. Maybe it was a mistake to call it, but again, who cares, it's a spring training game and they're seeing what they can do. If they call a hit run with no outs and a runner on third in a regular season game, I'll go about being annoyed. This? Nah.

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Wasn't really a mistake, Markakis was running on contact, Wieters hit it in a bad place, it happens sometimes. Maybe it was a mistake to call it, but again, who cares, it's a spring training game and they're seeing what they can do. If they call a hit run with no outs and a runner on third in a regular season game, I'll go about being annoyed. This? Nah.

Wasn't a mistake at all. If the runners hadn't been going, they would have turned a double play (3-6-3), Markakis would have scored. But we would have 1 run in the inning. As it turned out, we ended up scoring 2, because they don't turn a double play, but instead get one out at the plate.

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