Oh, there's nothing wrong with an occasional frankenthread now and then.
Posted on 04/25/2002 8:30:03 PM PDT by anncoulteriscool
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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P.S. Hope I formatted it right that time....
I'm waiting for full body checking in women's field hockey.......
ROTFLMAO. Thank you for that.
Remember when baseball cards were fun to put in the spokes of your bike and make a motor sound?
Pro footballs stupid rules for OT. A coin and sudden death? How about the rules for college football OT? Makes much more sense to me.
Why is it that in high school and college the pitchers are the best athletes (hitting too) on the team. When they get to the pros they can't hit. Go figure.
Try “Skeet-Golf.”
You hide in the rough with your Shot Gun.
As a beautiful drive flies down the fairway towards the green you blow it out of the sky. Points are awarded based on the potential score below par.
I once made Tiger Wood cry.
Oh, there's nothing wrong with an occasional frankenthread now and then.
It can be a good idea, if done right. The prime example is Bank One Ballpark, Arizona Diamondbacks. They have a retractable dome and natural grass. Baseball played on a real field. No rainouts, no sweltering in 110 degree heat. Although, I must admit it is not perfect, since it does remove weather conditions from the strategy a bit, so it isn’t quite purist baseball, but it is close. They have large banks of “grow lights” to supplement the open dome, to keep the grass healthy. They even came up with a special hybrid grass to make it work. They call it BOB Sod.
As long as we're resurrecting old threads, may I chime in here?
The Cleveland Indians actually had a Nickle Beer Day in June of 1971. I was on my second date with Mr. RightField (note my baseball-related FR name) in Municipal Stadium that day. Mr. RightField's brother played for the Indians then. As Hermione Gingold so eloquently put it, in song, .... Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well.
BTW, Can anyone post the whole list again? I tried the link, but it's too old now. I'd love to see the whole list.
Now you should have known better to close your tags!
; )
I say let them play a 15 minute OT period in both games. After that, it is a tie. Unless it's the Super Bowl or a College Bowl Game where they should have a 2nd or 3rd overtime full periods.
See what you did. This thread is going to quadruple in size now.
BANDWIDTH KILLER!!
Here is a list of all the professional leagues that require the pitcher-as-hitter:
1. The National League, of course.
2. NL farm clubs in the Triple-A leagues.
3. NL farm clubs in the Double-A leagues.
That's it! The lower minors all use the DH. The Japanese leagues, Korea, Taiwan, Australia and the Caribbean leagues use the DH.
Those athletic, heavy-hitting pitchers you see in college and high school are either a.) drafted as hitters or b.), if drafted as pitchers, sent to leagues where there is no necessity for them to hit.
As minor league pitchers, they will initially spend 100% of their time and effort learning how to pitch. If they are with a National League club, they will spend about 2% of their time learning how to "hit" only after they reach Double-A.
Every decade since 1900, pitcher's batting averages and overall offensive contributions have declined. Under the circumstances, that's not surprising. This decline will continue for the foreseeable future -- until the law of diminishing returns takes the bats out of their hands altogether.
That's because this is a supply-side thread.
okie, That is an outstanding analysis on my question. I thank you for that because I never thought of it. Love FreeRepublic.
American Football. If you take away all the time between plays, timeouts, etc, a football game has less than 10 minutes of ACTUAL PLAY TIME.
Make all the jokes you want, but there was nobody better than Cossell at reporting and commentary on boxing, especially amature boxing.
Mark
He did! He played one season with the Philadelphia Eagles and four seasons with the Carolina Panthers. He Hate Me on Wikipedia...
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