So it's... trying to sell laptops... but frames like a sperm bank ad? I am so confused. Like, nothing on the link they provide actually references anything in the ad.
Guessing it's meant to be a viral "get attention by being random" ad.
So it's... trying to sell laptops... but frames like a sperm bank ad? I am so confused. Like, nothing on the link they provide actually references anything in the ad.
Guessing it's meant to be a viral "get attention by being random" ad.
It's a joke.
You know, jokes?
Sorry, it's 2020, the distinction between genuine, joke, sarcasm and troll is basically nonexistent. Especially when connected to an actual brand.
Wow that's the best thing I've ever seen in baseball.
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Huh, who's the first announcer in that clip? Sounds exactly like Duane Kuiper, one of the SF Giants casters.
e: apparently it was Jon Miller, the Giants' radio play by play announcer. Maybe I was confusing them. They have very similar voices.
for those that don't understand why an unassisted triple play is nuts, there have been 15 total in the entire history of professional baseball
Man I remember in the 90s, back when I tracked baseball, it was the rarest occurrence in the game, quite a bit under the inside the park grand slam, and I think there were 12 (unassisted triple plays) then.
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
That's made rare more by the very specific conditions you need to be put in to pull it off more than by astounding personal skill.
Unless you're playing First, in which case holy shit
I watched a ton of Braves baseball in the 90s and one of my favorite players was Rafael Belliard. That's a name most people will never recognize. Dude was 5'6" and ~160 pounds. He was a lifetime .221 hitter and played for 17 years. You might be asking yourself, how a career .221 hitter play for so long?! Well, he always tracked down everything hit his way and got the out or turned a double play. It was virtually impossible for a ball to get by him. He was so good, that he would be brought in as a "defensive closer" in the 7-8th inning if the Braves had a lead.
To put him in comparison with a name you might know; Ozzie Smith had a .966 fielding percentage. Belliard had a .977 fielding percentage.
So with all that story behind you, here's my favorite baseball moment of all time (the announcers and the reactions say it all):
That's made rare more by the very specific conditions you need to be put in to pull it off more than by astounding personal skill.
Unless you're playing First, in which case holy shit
I think when I first heard about the unassisted triple play, they were all shorts and second basemen? It's theoretically possible for a third baseman to get it, but a runner on third would need to be extremely reckless to try that with 0 outs.
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I watched a ton of Braves baseball in the 90s and one of my favorite players was Rafael Belliard. That's a name most people will never recognize. Dude was 5'6" and ~160 pounds. He was a lifetime .221 hitter and played for 17 years. You might be asking yourself, how a career .221 hitter play for so long?! Well, he always tracked down everything hit his way and got the out or turned a double play. It was virtually impossible for a ball to get by him. He was so good, that he would be brought in as a "defensive closer" in the 7-8th inning if the Braves had a lead.
To put him in comparison with a name you might know; Ozzie Smith had a .966 fielding percentage. Belliard had a .977 fielding percentage.
So with all that story behind you, here's my favorite baseball moment of all time (the announcers and the reactions say it all):
I watched that moment on TV live with a friend of mine. We were jumping and screaming in pure joy.
It's those moments, and the triple play moment, that I really love baseball. There is a magic about it. I think it helps that the game itself isn't super violent. I just wish there was a way to maybe trim it down a bit. Like lose 20% of the time it takes to play a full game. I can only deal with a game for about 5-6 innings before I'm done. Maybe it's the calm that makes these moments all the more special though. I'm not sure.
Baseball is this weird microcosm of middle school for me. I can't stand watching it on TV, it's just too slow. Clips are great though.
But bring me to a park or a stadium where people are playing baseball, and my whole world changes and I'm 12 years old again, except now I get to drink beer. It's amazing.
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I kind of love that baseball is super slow
But I only love it when I'm actually there, at the stadium. Then it's like a weird outdoor picnic with a big crowd where we're all eating too-expensive hot dogs and getting really excited very occasionally
But I only love it when I'm actually there, at the stadium. Then it's like a weird outdoor picnic with a big crowd where we're all eating too-expensive hot dogs and getting really excited very occasionally
It's a very chill afternoon!
"Golf Baseball is a long walk picnic spoiled." -Mark Twain, paraphrased
I legitimately don't understand the appeal of watching sports. Or competition in general.
there are lots of reasons. at its most basic (imo) it's fun seeing people be really good at something that takes a lot of skill. also, humans are naturally competitive and tribal, and sports let us express that and build a sense of community in a (relatively) safe and healthy way. ultimately that's really all there is to it.
you can also get into the fact that some people find joy in stats and numbers and patterns, or understanding complex strategies and seeing them play out, or the motivational storylines of players overcoming hardships and achieving their goals, or just the visceral feedback of the bat-crack of a big homerun or the swish of a perfect three-point shot.
there's a ton of toxic attitudes and behavior surrounding sports at every level and always has been, but the fundamental idea of sports and healthy competition is extremely human.
My idea for improving baseball would be as follows:
108 game season. That's four, 3-game series against each other team in the division (48 games total). Then 2, 3-game series against each other team in the other two divisions (60 games total). No interleague play.
7 inning games. Gives both line-ups two chances to hit and the top of the order three chances. Makes starting pitching even more important and cuts down on time consuming pitching changes.
Keep the DH standard and the extra innings base-runner at 2nd rules. More offensive opportunities given less innings to play and faster endings to games.
If we wanted interleague play make it one, 3-game series against all other non-divisional teams in your league and one, 2-game series against every team in the opposing league (48+30+30). Home/Away alternates each year (ex. Yankees home vs Dodgers 2020 and away in 2021).
These changes could easily get games down to about 2 hours or so. It would still be enough games to get realistic results and allow for "hot streaks". A shorter season would have less overlap with football.
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bruntlett was such a nothing player too so it was so much more fun. oh he also committed 2 errors right before this to put those runners on. it's the best.
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I watched a ton of Braves baseball in the 90s and one of my favorite players was Rafael Belliard. That's a name most people will never recognize. Dude was 5'6" and ~160 pounds. He was a lifetime .221 hitter and played for 17 years. You might be asking yourself, how a career .221 hitter play for so long?! Well, he always tracked down everything hit his way and got the out or turned a double play. It was virtually impossible for a ball to get by him. He was so good, that he would be brought in as a "defensive closer" in the 7-8th inning if the Braves had a lead.
To put him in comparison with a name you might know; Ozzie Smith had a .966 fielding percentage. Belliard had a .977 fielding percentage.
So with all that story behind you, here's my favorite baseball moment of all time (the announcers and the reactions say it all):
I watched that moment on TV live with a friend of mine. We were jumping and screaming in pure joy.
It's those moments, and the triple play moment, that I really love baseball. There is a magic about it. I think it helps that the game itself isn't super violent. I just wish there was a way to maybe trim it down a bit. Like lose 20% of the time it takes to play a full game. I can only deal with a game for about 5-6 innings before I'm done. Maybe it's the calm that makes these moments all the more special though. I'm not sure.
When I was in Japan, we were staying with some of my wife's friends, and while we were hanging out, snacking, making dinner, their grandma was watching baseball on tv.
At one point I asked if she was watching highlights of a game that happened earlier, but it turns out it was a live full game. They have managed to trim so much fluff out of baseball in Japan. There is a maximum of like 30 seconds between an out or a hit before the next pitch, and between innings or changeovers is a minute or so. I swear an entire game lasts MAYBE an hour including interviews and commercials and what not. It is so incredibly streamlined and an absolute joy.
Oh wow that sounds like baseball I would watch on TV.
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Growing up, my family didn't watch professional sports, but we were all complete marks for the Olympics. The preferred viewing strategy was to pick the competitor with the best name and then cheer loudly for them regardless of talent or country of origin.
I'll never forget you, Pieter van den Hoogenband. You probably never knew it, but there has never been a better name for a living room full of rubes to shout in unison every time you showed up on the television.
I watched a ton of Braves baseball in the 90s and one of my favorite players was Rafael Belliard. That's a name most people will never recognize. Dude was 5'6" and ~160 pounds. He was a lifetime .221 hitter and played for 17 years. You might be asking yourself, how a career .221 hitter play for so long?! Well, he always tracked down everything hit his way and got the out or turned a double play. It was virtually impossible for a ball to get by him. He was so good, that he would be brought in as a "defensive closer" in the 7-8th inning if the Braves had a lead.
To put him in comparison with a name you might know; Ozzie Smith had a .966 fielding percentage. Belliard had a .977 fielding percentage.
So with all that story behind you, here's my favorite baseball moment of all time (the announcers and the reactions say it all):
I watched that moment on TV live with a friend of mine. We were jumping and screaming in pure joy.
It's those moments, and the triple play moment, that I really love baseball. There is a magic about it. I think it helps that the game itself isn't super violent. I just wish there was a way to maybe trim it down a bit. Like lose 20% of the time it takes to play a full game. I can only deal with a game for about 5-6 innings before I'm done. Maybe it's the calm that makes these moments all the more special though. I'm not sure.
When I was in Japan, we were staying with some of my wife's friends, and while we were hanging out, snacking, making dinner, their grandma was watching baseball on tv.
At one point I asked if she was watching highlights of a game that happened earlier, but it turns out it was a live full game. They have managed to trim so much fluff out of baseball in Japan. There is a maximum of like 30 seconds between an out or a hit before the next pitch, and between innings or changeovers is a minute or so. I swear an entire game lasts MAYBE an hour including interviews and commercials and what not. It is so incredibly streamlined and an absolute joy.
you probably already know this, but if you ever get back to Japan and have a chance, you should definitely go to a baseball game. Japanese fans are serious about that shit. I got to go to a Hanshin Tigers game in Osaka and it was an absolute trip. People had giant 20-foot flags, entire brass sections, it was nuts.
Growing up, my family didn't watch professional sports, but we were all complete marks for the Olympics. The preferred viewing strategy was to pick the competitor with the best name and then cheer loudly for them regardless of talent or country of origin.
I'll never forget you, Pieter van den Hoogenband. You probably never knew it, but there has never been a better name for a living room full of rubes to shout in unison every time you showed up on the television.
What about Prince Octopus Dzanie?
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My idea for improving baseball would be as follows:
108 game season. That's four, 3-game series against each other team in the division (48 games total). Then 2, 3-game series against each other team in the other two divisions (60 games total). No interleague play.
7 inning games. Gives both line-ups two chances to hit and the top of the order three chances. Makes starting pitching even more important and cuts down on time consuming pitching changes.
Keep the DH standard and the extra innings base-runner at 2nd rules. More offensive opportunities given less innings to play and faster endings to games.
If we wanted interleague play make it one, 3-game series against all other non-divisional teams in your league and one, 2-game series against every team in the opposing league (48+30+30). Home/Away alternates each year (ex. Yankees home vs Dodgers 2020 and away in 2021).
These changes could easily get games down to about 2 hours or so. It would still be enough games to get realistic results and allow for "hot streaks". A shorter season would have less overlap with football.
All players should be required to take steroids and the runners get to keep their bats
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The second part of that is cricket.
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It's a joke.
You know, jokes?
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Wow that's the best thing I've ever seen in baseball.
Better than the fastball exploding the bird?
randy johnson was always wild to watch
I was at that game and the vibe is a lot different when you see them pick up the fuckin' thing and haul it off the field.
e: apparently it was Jon Miller, the Giants' radio play by play announcer. Maybe I was confusing them. They have very similar voices.
Man I remember in the 90s, back when I tracked baseball, it was the rarest occurrence in the game, quite a bit under the inside the park grand slam, and I think there were 12 (unassisted triple plays) then.
Unless you're playing First, in which case holy shit
To put him in comparison with a name you might know; Ozzie Smith had a .966 fielding percentage. Belliard had a .977 fielding percentage.
So with all that story behind you, here's my favorite baseball moment of all time (the announcers and the reactions say it all):
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I think when I first heard about the unassisted triple play, they were all shorts and second basemen? It's theoretically possible for a third baseman to get it, but a runner on third would need to be extremely reckless to try that with 0 outs.
It's those moments, and the triple play moment, that I really love baseball. There is a magic about it. I think it helps that the game itself isn't super violent. I just wish there was a way to maybe trim it down a bit. Like lose 20% of the time it takes to play a full game. I can only deal with a game for about 5-6 innings before I'm done. Maybe it's the calm that makes these moments all the more special though. I'm not sure.
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But bring me to a park or a stadium where people are playing baseball, and my whole world changes and I'm 12 years old again, except now I get to drink beer. It's amazing.
Not since Bob Niehaus died. I can't listen to radio baseball without him.
the best radio sport was the CFL in the 80s
But only when the Saskatchewan Roughriders would play the Ottawa Roughriders.
Announcers would be basically insane by half time
But I only love it when I'm actually there, at the stadium. Then it's like a weird outdoor picnic with a big crowd where we're all eating too-expensive hot dogs and getting really excited very occasionally
It's a very chill afternoon!
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"Golf Baseball is a long walk picnic spoiled." -Mark Twain, paraphrased
there are lots of reasons. at its most basic (imo) it's fun seeing people be really good at something that takes a lot of skill. also, humans are naturally competitive and tribal, and sports let us express that and build a sense of community in a (relatively) safe and healthy way. ultimately that's really all there is to it.
you can also get into the fact that some people find joy in stats and numbers and patterns, or understanding complex strategies and seeing them play out, or the motivational storylines of players overcoming hardships and achieving their goals, or just the visceral feedback of the bat-crack of a big homerun or the swish of a perfect three-point shot.
there's a ton of toxic attitudes and behavior surrounding sports at every level and always has been, but the fundamental idea of sports and healthy competition is extremely human.
If we wanted interleague play make it one, 3-game series against all other non-divisional teams in your league and one, 2-game series against every team in the opposing league (48+30+30). Home/Away alternates each year (ex. Yankees home vs Dodgers 2020 and away in 2021).
These changes could easily get games down to about 2 hours or so. It would still be enough games to get realistic results and allow for "hot streaks". A shorter season would have less overlap with football.
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this was my favorite unassisted triple play.
bruntlett was such a nothing player too so it was so much more fun. oh he also committed 2 errors right before this to put those runners on. it's the best.
When I was in Japan, we were staying with some of my wife's friends, and while we were hanging out, snacking, making dinner, their grandma was watching baseball on tv.
At one point I asked if she was watching highlights of a game that happened earlier, but it turns out it was a live full game. They have managed to trim so much fluff out of baseball in Japan. There is a maximum of like 30 seconds between an out or a hit before the next pitch, and between innings or changeovers is a minute or so. I swear an entire game lasts MAYBE an hour including interviews and commercials and what not. It is so incredibly streamlined and an absolute joy.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I'll never forget you, Pieter van den Hoogenband. You probably never knew it, but there has never been a better name for a living room full of rubes to shout in unison every time you showed up on the television.
you probably already know this, but if you ever get back to Japan and have a chance, you should definitely go to a baseball game. Japanese fans are serious about that shit. I got to go to a Hanshin Tigers game in Osaka and it was an absolute trip. People had giant 20-foot flags, entire brass sections, it was nuts.
What about Prince Octopus Dzanie?
All players should be required to take steroids and the runners get to keep their bats
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