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mpfunk · 04-29-2006, 09:14 AM

il Pad you really did use a great and wise man in your quote about baseball. As you stated I am a reformed baseball hater and let me say everything in my life has been better since I learned to love baseball.

Johnny your post simply proves that you do not understand baseball. The intentional walk does not take a player out of the game at all. It puts the player on base. Getting on base is a huge deal in baseball and you are already one step closer to getting burned because of intentional walk. Plus let's not forgot the strategy involved with constructing a lineup to protect your players you do not want walked intentionally.

Parrot Head · 04-29-2006, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by mpfunk

The intentional walk does not take a player out of the game at all. It puts the player on base. Getting on base is a huge deal in baseball and you are already one step closer to getting burned because of intentional walk. Plus let's not forgot the strategy involved with constructing a lineup to protect your players you do not want walked intentionally.

A little Moneyball from the man who used to have an A's logo as his CB moniker.

mpfunk · 04-30-2006, 06:41 AM

Moneyball is one the best books every written on any subject. It is also the best baseball book I have read hands down. I am waiting in anticipation for the follow up to Moneyball. Sadly I think it is another 2-3 years away.

I am seriously considering bringing back the A's icon, but I kind of have become identified with the Creepy King so I'm not sure if I can.

Tim · 04-30-2006, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by mpfunk

il Pad you really did use a great and wise man in your quote about baseball. As you stated I am a reformed baseball hater and let me say everything in my life has been better since I learned to love baseball.

Johnny your post simply proves that you do not understand baseball. The intentional walk does not take a player out of the game at all. It puts the player on base. Getting on base is a huge deal in baseball and you are already one step closer to getting burned because of intentional walk. Plus let's not forgot the strategy involved with constructing a lineup to protect your players you do not want walked intentionally.

Here is a quote I found:
Baseball brings joy into good men's lives. -Dennis Nuttblock

Actually, I made it up myself.

Tom

mpfunk · 04-30-2006, 07:22 AM

Dennis Nuttblock has witnessed many baseball games.

Tim · 04-30-2006, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by mpfunk

Dennis Nuttblock has witnessed many baseball games.

Dennis Nuttblock is a true renaissance man: live sporting events, symphonic performances, art museums, ballroom dancing clubs on Saturday nights -- Nuttblock attends them all.

il Padrino Ute · 04-30-2006, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim

Baseball brings joy into good men's lives.
Tom

Truer words have never been spoken.

At least not on this board.

JohnnyLingo · 04-30-2006, 10:26 PM

I'm glad the consesus is that I don't understand baseball.

That's good.

I'll bet that if I understood curling, it'd be awesome, too.

Thanks for the education, guys.

mpfunk · 04-30-2006, 10:41 PM

I think the consensus is you lack the capacity to understand baseball, if you actually think that intentionally walking a player is taking him out of the game.

SoCalCoug · 05-01-2006, 04:34 AM

There is nothing like a 1-0 pitcher's duel, or a 6-4-3 double play, or a game-winning RBI single with a man on 2nd, and a play at the plate. Football hits you in the mouth. Baseball seduces you.

05-01-2006, 04:34 AM	#30
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	There is nothing like a 1-0 pitcher's duel, or a 6-4-3 double play, or a game-winning RBI single with a man on 2nd, and a play at the plate. Football hits you in the mouth. Baseball seduces you. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

04-29-2006, 09:14 AM	#21
mpfunk Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 2,619	il Pad you really did use a great and wise man in your quote about baseball. As you stated I am a reformed baseball hater and let me say everything in my life has been better since I learned to love baseball. Johnny your post simply proves that you do not understand baseball. The intentional walk does not take a player out of the game at all. It puts the player on base. Getting on base is a huge deal in baseball and you are already one step closer to getting burned because of intentional walk. Plus let's not forgot the strategy involved with constructing a lineup to protect your players you do not want walked intentionally.

04-30-2006, 06:41 AM	#23
mpfunk Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 2,619	Moneyball is one the best books every written on any subject. It is also the best baseball book I have read hands down. I am waiting in anticipation for the follow up to Moneyball. Sadly I think it is another 2-3 years away. I am seriously considering bringing back the A's icon, but I kind of have become identified with the Creepy King so I'm not sure if I can.

04-30-2006, 07:22 AM	#25
mpfunk Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 2,619	Dennis Nuttblock has witnessed many baseball games.

04-30-2006, 10:26 PM	#28
JohnnyLingo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,175	I'm glad the consesus is that I don't understand baseball. That's good. I'll bet that if I understood curling, it'd be awesome, too. Thanks for the education, guys.

04-30-2006, 10:41 PM	#29
mpfunk Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 2,619	I think the consensus is you lack the capacity to understand baseball, if you actually think that intentionally walking a player is taking him out of the game.