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Originally Posted by ckissick
Dude. These don't go together. I too am a lifelong Giants fan and would love to see Kershaw choke again. I'm sure he's a good guy, but he's a Dodger, so...
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Most of the games I saw as a kid at Chavez were Giant games in the mid 60's into the 70's. That and every years we'd wear our LL uniforms to a a game, sit in the Troposphere and laugh and giggle.
When I got my DL, the Ravine was a great date site. I kid you not.
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Originally Posted by ckissick
I always lived in Giants territory and batted against Gaylord Perry when I was in 8th grade. He showed up on a weekend at our school in Portola Valley while we were playing a pick-up game. He asked if he could pitch. We said hell yeah. I roped a double off him into left center. He didn't give me his best stuff, or even a spit ball; it was a batting practice pitch. But at least I can say I hit a double off a Hall of Famer.
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Awesome!
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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
If hitters could learn to 'hit' instead of swinging for the fences all the time the shift would go away naturally.
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They are not taught to hit and spray anymore. It is all launch angles and homers. The shift has killed that.
A good friend of mines daughter works in analytics for the Yankees...get on board the analytics bus or forget about making the Majors. They are not asking.
Baseball, my favorite sport to play, is a mind numbing exercise in sameness: Watching pitching, strike out and home runs is not my thing. There is zero tension. I did not watch a single live inning this year for the first time.
Anyway, thanks again Baz...I enjoyed watching the whole inning.