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[OldFatGuy]

OLD SCHOOL BASEBALL ! ! ! ! LOVE IT ! ! !

A (gasp!) COMPLETE GAME !!

LOL, even the announcers, after the 7th inning, said "Well if that's it for the young man, he's had a great start." Yep, that's what today's baseball is reduced to. 7 innings, 3 hits, 1 run, about 80 pitches, and the announcers, like many others watching the games today, thought that would be it.

NOPE.

Complete game. COMPLETE GAME ! ! ! A NATS pitcher threw a complete game win for the first time in nearly THREE YEARS.

Sad commentary on the game today, but a great performance, worth watching from beginning to end. Seemed like old times. Guess Manny Acta didn't get the memo about 100 pitches being THE MAGIC NUMBER ABOVE WHICH NO HUMAN ARM CAN PITCH, cause he left him in for a whopping 110 pitches.

And now, if the kid gets hurt at ANY TIME IN HIS CAREER, someone will point back at this and say "YEP, SEE, HE BROKE THAT MAGIC NUMBER AND LOOK, HE'S HURT." And everyone will buy into that ********, and it'll be another 3 or 5, or 7 years before another pitcher does it.

[HoustonGM]

I think you're overreacting just a tad . Nobody's going to point to a 110 pitch outing. Now, if it was 140, maybe.

[OldFatGuy]

I think you're overreacting just a tad .

LOL, yep, but I think generally, managers in games are WAY overreacting on the pitch count issue now as it is too, so I'm allowed to overreact in the other direction.

And another benefit of the "old school" type of game. Note the time of game.

[free2131]

No Braves because of a stupid tornado warning about 75 MILES FROM WHERE I LIVE!!!

It's not enough to show a goddamn warning at the bottom. No, we have to interupt the game bacause in one small corner of Alabama, there MIGHT be a tornado.

WE NEED ROUND THE CLOCK COVERAGE FOR WHAT COULD BE A TORNADO FOR 0.00001 % OF OUR VIEWING AREA!!!!!

Don't talk to me about saving lives, preventing damage, keeping me informed, yada yada yada... THIS IS BASEBALL WE'RE MISSING. Not NASCAR, not NHL, not WNBA, but BRAVES BASEBALL.



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[OldFatGuy]

No Braves because of a stupid tornado warning about 75 MILES FROM WHERE I LIVE!!!

It's not enough to show a goddamn warning at the bottom. no , we have to interupt the game bacause in one small corner of Alabama, there MIGHT be a tornado.

WE NEED ROUND THE CLOCK COVERAGE FOR WHAT COULD BE A TORNADO FOR 0.00001 % OF OUR VIEWING AREA!!!!!

Don't talk about saving lives, preventing damage, keeping me informed, yada yada yada... THIS IS BASEBALL WE'RE MISSING. Not NASCAR, not NHL, not WNBA, but BRAVES BASEBALL.

True fan.

Love it.



Damned right baby, BASEBALL -- Best thing going. Always has been, IMO.

[free2131]

True fan.

Love it.



Damned right baby, BASEBALL -- Best thing going. Always has been, IMO.

Yeah, and Jurrjens was pitching too, so we might have won this one!!

[HoustonGM]

At least the game is still on...lol

[free2131]

NOW I'M PISSED!!!!!

NBC 13 (same area, same weather) thought so much of this iminate disaster that they aren't giving live updates in favor of...

A ****ING HORSE RACE...

One more time, for the soul...

A F U C K I N G HORSE RACE!!!

Sigh...

[ragecage]

Just what I want to see, Phillies and Mets on Fox when I live on the west coast. Wonderful.

Oh well, its baseball so ill get some enjoyment out of it.

[free2131]

Just what I want to see, Phillies and Mets on Fox when I live on the west coast. Wonderful.

Oh well, its baseball so ill get some enjoyment out of it.

AT LEAST IT'S ON FOR YOU...

I need to talk a walk...

HOPE I CAN SURVIVE THE WEATHER THAT'S 75 MILES AWAY FROM ME...








(Hey, OFG, this really does help... I need a "personal therapy" thread... )

[HoustonGM]

Well, not the game's delayed due to rain.

[free2131]

Ha, the weather guy just commented on the number of calls/ emails that he has gotten wondering when the Braves will be back on.

So see, I'm not alone.

[BINGLEBOP]

Either that or you have multiple email addresses that you used to send emails into the news station.

[metsguy234]

Perez is done as a Met. Mark my words.

4 consecutive BB, including one to Jamie Moyer. Just pathetic. 2 1/3 IP- 6 BB- 5R.

The good news though is that we finally get to see Ken Takahashi

[HoustonGM]

Perez is done as a Met. Mark my words.

I'll mark your words, and you'll be wrong.