Joey Fox
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(05-23-2012, 03:20 AM)

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Nats back in first!

Now that they're hitting more home runs, I think they may be able to keep winning series. If Morse comes back next week all the better.
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(05-23-2012, 03:27 AM)

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Quote:
Oakland lineup 5/22

Crisp CF - .197 AVG
Cowgill RF - .143
Smith DH - .243
Gomes LF - .235
Donaldson 3B - .141
Pennington SS - .221
Rosales 2B - .227
Barton 1B - .202
Recker C - .143
My God......
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(05-23-2012, 03:29 AM)

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Even Brewers baseball is better than the current thread
True dat
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(05-23-2012, 03:30 AM)

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Angel Pagan doing his best Rickie Weeks impression. Ugh.

There's only two outs, asshole!
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(05-23-2012, 03:33 AM)

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Not looking good for a 6th in a row.

Fuck! Matt Moore .1 IP from getting the win. >< Think I'm ready to drop this dude.
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(05-23-2012, 03:33 AM)

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Damnit. So thought that was a granny. Fuck you Safeco!
clemenx
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Holy shit Dave Sims just called the most exciting fake HR ever on the M's feed. He made it sound like that was hit 500ft. Lolol.
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lol @ big guy in background. Throw it at the gut
ZeroRay
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(05-23-2012, 03:40 AM)

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Oh God, Bell. NOOO!

Don't revert.

uguu

Edit: YES! Nolasco all time Marlins win leader!
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Originally Posted by ZeroRay: View Post
Oh God, Bell. NOOO!

Don't revert.

uguu

Edit: YES! Nolasco all time Marlins win leader!
And thus, Dontrelle Willis is erased from history :(
ZeroRay
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(05-23-2012, 03:52 AM)

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Dontrelle :(
Little Green Yoda
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Padres got shutout by a pitcher with a 5.77 ERA coming into the game.

9.0 IP, 4 H, 1 BB, 9 K , 0 R
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Wainwright getting back into form? I hope so, but it never hurts to be hesitant. But God knows we'll need the help with the constant injuries we're attracting.

Also yay, the Rays won! Tonight is a good night
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Originally Posted by RobotHaus: View Post
Wainwright getting back into form? I hope so, but it never hurts to be hesitant. But God knows we'll need the help with the constant injuries we're attracting.

Also yay, the Rays won! Tonight is a good night
Cool another Rays fan!

Are you a Cardinals fan too? I think being a fan of two teams is okay but others here don't approve of it sadly enough :(
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Originally Posted by darkside31337: View Post
Cool another Rays fan!

Are you a Cardinals fan too? I think being a fan of two teams is okay but others here don't approve of it sadly enough :(
There are no rays fans, just people who also hopped on from another team.
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Originally Posted by darkside31337: View Post
Cool another Rays fan!

Are you a Cardinals fan too? I think being a fan of two teams is okay but others here don't approve of it sadly enough :(
Been posting for a little while. From St Louis, but now live in Central Florida, so got support for both. Plus I'm one of the 6 people who actually enjoys Tropicana Field.
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Originally Posted by RobotHaus: View Post
Been posting for a little while. From St Louis, but now live in Central Florida, so got support for both. Plus I'm one of the 6 people who actually enjoys Tropicana Field.
You are truly heathen scum.
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Originally Posted by RobotHaus: View Post
Plus I'm one of the 6 people who actually enjoys Tropicana Field.
smh
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Originally Posted by RobotHaus: View Post
Been posting for a little while. From St Louis, but now live in Central Florida, so got support for both. Plus I'm one of the 6 people who actually enjoys Tropicana Field.
Not a fan of the Trop myself at all (for many reasons) but still cool to have fellow Rays fans here. Plan on going to the Mets - Rays game in a few weeks hopefully.
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Originally Posted by darkside31337: View Post
Not a fan of the Trop myself at all (for many reasons) but still cool to have fellow Rays fans here. Plan on going to the Mets - Rays game in a few weeks hopefully.
I was thinking of going for the LL Cool J concert against the O's.

It's quite the feeling watching a game where a huge thunderstorm is going on outside the entire game, it really unsettles the opposing team when the thunder cracks.
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(05-23-2012, 05:19 AM)

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Oh shit, 6-6 now! :O
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Originally Posted by RobotHaus: View Post
I was thinking of going for the LL Cool J concert against the O's.

It's quite the feeling watching a game where a huge thunderstorm is going on outside the entire game, it really unsettles the opposing team when the thunder cracks.
What has become of this thread?
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Originally Posted by Fenix: View Post
What has become of this thread?
I go for the game, but to get anyone else to go with me the game has to have some gimmick to it.

But enough of this nonsense, back to baseball.
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Originally Posted by RobotHaus: View Post
I go for the game, but to get anyone else to go with me the game has to have some gimmick to it.

But enough of this nonsense, back to baseball.
no, you have ruined everything. we must salt the earth and burn the grass.
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Fuck yeah Dodgers!

8-7!
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Wait, I just realized, that was the Cards first shutout of the season. Clearly a good sign.
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Dodgers win!

6 straight games!
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Season's over.

Doing good work with all of those NL Champion projections, Diamondbacks.
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I want to be able to sweep a series for once.
Sanjuro
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Typical New Yorkers.


ZeroRay
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(05-23-2012, 12:31 PM)

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Didn't know they had a nerd convention that day.
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Originally Posted by ZeroRay: View Post
Didn't know they had a nerd convention that day.
Actually it was a religious meeting for Hasidic Jews talking about the evil that is the internet meanwhile they were using the internet to broadcast the meeting to women who werent allowed into the stadium because of religious rules.
Sharp
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Actually it was a religious meeting for Hasidic Jews talking about the evil that is the internet meanwhile they were using the internet to broadcast the meeting to women who werent allowed into the stadium because of religious rules.
Holy fuck this is real?
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Most of them admitted to using it.
Originally Posted by nydailynews.com:
One way news spread of the big event on the evils of the Internet was . . . the Internet.

The Internet helped steer 60,000 Orthodox Jewish men to Citi Field and Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens on Sunday night for a forum warning how the Internet can harm Judaism.

“Word spread from the synagogues like mine, and in newspapers like the Jewish Press, where I write a regular column, and, yes, by Internet, which is a positive use of this powerful tool,” says Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum of B’nai Israel of Linden Heights in Orthodox Borough Park, Brooklyn.

“I was at Citi Field,” Tannenbaum tells me. “And it will be the topic of my Wednesday column, which also appears online at www.jewishpress.com. As are all my previous columns. Another very positive use of the Internet.”

He laughs in a self-effacing way, but this cleric, who has no TV in his home for religious reasons, does have a computer.

“The speakers at Citi Field said that if improperly used, the Internet can destroy families, with gambling, pornography and other addictions,” Tannenbaum says. “But mostly, surfing the Internet is a colossal waste of precious time young people could spend working or studying. I direct Internet surfers to www.HebrewBooks.org, where anyone can download 50,000 scholarly Hebrew books free, an astounding library at your fingertips. God created the Internet just for this site.”

A couple of times a week, I get witty emails from Rabbi Anchelle Perl of Chabad of Mineola, L.I., a follower of the late Lubavitcher Grand Rebbe Menachem Schneerson of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

“I am a Chabad rabbi,” Perl emails. “And the Chabad Hasidim have long not only embraced the power of technology like the Internet, but our leader Rebbe Schneerson of sainted memory clearly taught from its inception how to use it in a positive manner. This isn’t to say that the effort at Citi Field to remind us of the dangers of the Internet isn’t worthy of focus. Every good thing has a bad side. So we must supervise our children’s access to the Internet so that the experience always remains one of holiness. We must teach our children the dangers of fire. Yet they must also embrace its worthiness to provide warmth, healing and hope.”

Perl has a website and a Twitter account. In his emails, he riffs with wit and wisdom on current events like Mark Zuckerberg wearing a hoodie, the Secret Service and public breastfeeding.

“I don’t use Facebook because it’s too personal,” Perl said when reached by phone. “But I was born in London and I first saw Rebbe Schneerson live from Brooklyn in video broadcasts. Without technology, I would never have experienced that. So I agree with those at Citi Field that we can’t ignore technology like the Internet, but we must filter it.”

Tannenbaum says that in some Orthodox communities like Williamsburg and upstate Kiryas Joel, many religious schools will not accept students with Internet in their homes.

“Those families must use public Internet kiosks to study or do business,” says Tannenbaum. “One popular suggestion at Citi Field was for Orthodox Jews to refrain from the Internet between Friday sundown and Monday morning. Other than that, it’s like trying to push water uphill. Today, most people have cell phones with Internet. It’s dangerous not to have one. They drive me crazy going off all the time in temple! But we needed to come together to try to regulate the Internet.”

Perl says it’s a balancing act.

“The Internet has broadened my congregation 1,000% in what’s become a virtual synagogue,” he says. “When I didn’t have enough men to conduct the services for a day of memory for my father, one click of the mouse brought more men than I needed. But misused, the Internet can destroy people.”

And the takeaway for Tannenbaum?

“Be always mindful that the Internet can be dangerous,” he says. “But also positive. I’ll have my own website very soon.”
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Originally Posted by Dmncnby2k9: View Post
Actually it was a religious meeting for Hasidic Jews talking about the evil that is the internet meanwhile they were using the internet to broadcast the meeting to women who werent allowed into the stadium because of religious rules.
Great, now I look like an ignorant stereotyper.

Oh well, they're not much better lol.
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Originally Posted by ZeroRay: View Post
Great, now I look like an ignorant stereotyper.

Oh well, they're not much better lol.
Man these guys also rented the Arthur Ashe Stadium-used for the US Open-, which is across from Citi Field. 60,000 in total, wow.
Sharp
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Originally Posted by Dmncnby2k9: View Post
Most of them admitted to using it.
Well exactly... Orthodox Judaism is backwards in a lot of ways but they're not Amish. That's not what surprised me so much as that the picture isn't shopped though.
Carlbeego
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(05-23-2012, 01:36 PM)

First sell out in Citi Field history?
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Originally Posted by Sharp: View Post
Well exactly... Orthodox Judaism is backwards in a lot of ways but they're not Amish. That's not what surprised me so much as that the picture isn't shopped though.
lol yea i know. thought it was random first time i saw it.
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Originally Posted by darkside31337: View Post
Not a fan of the Trop myself at all (for many reasons) but still cool to have fellow Rays fans here. Plan on going to the Mets - Rays game in a few weeks hopefully.
Oh man, are you going to wear one of those half and half jerseys? Who will you root for?
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They filled 60,000 seats to tell people that the internet is dangerous if used improperly? Really?

...

REALLY?

They couldn't just send them reruns of "To Catch a Predator"?
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Originally Posted by Sharp: View Post
Holy fuck this is real?
They weren't saying the internet is forbidden, just that there is a lot of bad shit on there. Like this thread, for example.
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Originally Posted by eznark: View Post
They weren't saying the internet is forbidden, just that there is a lot of bad shit on there. Like this thread, for example.
Someone needs to point them towards the NFL thread.
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and here I thought that was photoshopped
Sharp
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Oh man, are you going to wear one of those half and half jerseys? Who will you root for?
The winning team.
Originally Posted by DoctorWho: View Post
They filled 60,000 seats to tell people that the internet is dangerous if used improperly? Really?

...

REALLY?

They couldn't just send them reruns of "To Catch a Predator"?
From past experience, Orthodox Jews only listen to other Orthodox Jews.
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I wonder what woman screwed over god so badly that he has held this grudge over women for this long. She must have been amazing in bed.
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I wonder what woman screwed over god so badly that he has held this grudge over women for this long. She must have been amazing in bed.
Eve?
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Phillies fans: Do you guys have any idea on when Utley will actually play again? I've kept him stashed on my fantasy team on the bench for ages now (my 2 DL slots are full) since it was being reported he'd be back with the team.. but he's still just been hitting and throwing, etc. Is there an actual timetable for his return?

Haha, just saw the Dodgers got 2 in the top of the 9th after I went to bed. Yes! This team is playing out of its mind so far this year.
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Phillies fans: Do you guys have any idea on when Utley will actually play again? I've kept him stashed on my fantasy team on the bench for ages now (my 2 DL slots are full) since it was being reported he'd be back with the team.. but he's still just been hitting and throwing, etc. Is there an actual timetable for his return?

Haha, just saw the Dodgers got 2 in the top of the 9th after I went to bed. Yes! This team is playing out of its mind so far this year.
The problem is he still has swelling in his knees and they dont want him to play until they can get that under control. Just the other day he said they were trying a new routine to reduce the swelling, but he is hitting and fielding so if they can fix the swelling it wont be long. He did say that there is no time table and no one knows when he will be back. If you need the spot it would be best to drop him, even if he comes back both knees are fucked and they are going to give him a bunch of time off this year.
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We now stand just .4% from k% lead..all time lead.. or rather worst for a single season. D-Backs in 2010 have the record at 24.7%, we now stand at 24.3%. At least we wont have the worst WAR team at the end of the season. The 1884 Nationals somehow had a -17.7 war