General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

Discussion about other teams, non-cubs players, baseball history, sabr vs scouting, etc.
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Re: General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

Postby The Logan » Fri Jun 26, 2020 2:29 pm

This was a ton of fun and if they made one with 1,000 batting stances instead of 10 I'd play it all the way through

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story ... tance-quiz
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Postby Regular Show » Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:08 pm

The Logan wrote:This was a ton of fun and if they made one with 1,000 batting stances instead of 10 I'd play it all the way through

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story ... tance-quiz


Yeah, it's pretty fun. The trivia part isn't really necessary -- just provide the silhouette of the hitter.

I got 7/10 and I can't really do the weird older batting stances...
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Postby JudasIscariotTheBird » Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:44 pm

Yeah that was cool. I missed New Hampshire crouch guy.
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Postby chopsx9 » Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:15 am

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UMFan83 wrote:https://twitter.com/passonjim/status/1274824479898664961?s=21

That’s...really impressive. For those that don’t want to do the math, this goes back to 1902.

What’s as odd is that they only won 2 titles and reached only a handful of playoff appearances for 118 years of that stretch.


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Postby chopsx9 » Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:17 am

JudasIscariotTheBird wrote:Yeah that was cool. I missed New Hampshire crouch guy.

Missed the last guy. #-o Thought he was crouchier.
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Postby OleMissCub » Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:57 pm

Whoa

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Postby Regular Show » Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:57 pm


Nice retro look there from Andrew McCutchen lol
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Postby Ding Dong Johnson » Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:55 am

That would be preferable to watching a game in that dump.
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Postby champaignchris » Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:26 am

Regular Show wrote:
Nice retro look there from Andrew McCutchen lol


I think Cutch is my all time favorite non-Cub.

That thread also has a great one of Doc Ellis.
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Postby Regular Show » Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:36 am

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Postby minnesotacubsfan » Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:33 pm

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day; I guess someone did get rich from Madoff after all !!
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Postby Regular Show » Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:17 pm

minnesotacubsfan wrote:Happy Bobby Bonilla Day; I guess someone did get rich from Madoff after all !!




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Postby WrigleyField 22 » Thu Jul 02, 2020 2:40 am

Those were simpler times. Had to be more than a decade ago.

Also re: that gif, best cold open ever. Just went and re-watched.
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Postby Regular Show » Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:20 am

WrigleyField 22 wrote:Also re: that gif, best cold open ever. Just went and re-watched.


Yeah, one of my favorite cold opens ever.

I was debating which gif to use for the Arrieta dominance back in 2015 and decided to go with this one. It's great lol.
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Postby Regular Show » Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:27 am



Nice
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Postby Forgotmyoldlogin » Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:14 am

Bring back the Spiders!
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Postby NonProfitCow » Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:45 am

Use an old Negro League team name to really piss the racists off.
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Postby Regular Show » Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:51 am


I like it lol
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Postby NonProfitCow » Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:07 am

Wonderful. I horsefeathering love baseball.

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Postby Ding Dong Johnson » Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:30 pm

Love the guy in the foreground being all nice.

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Postby Regular Show » Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:38 am

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