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Ben Clemens
5:11
he just pulled a three-run homer
Meg Rowley
5:12
lol that he seemed to hit pretty hard!
Ben Clemens
5:12
It's now sunny in KC?
Boy, things change quickly
Morbo
5:13
"It's... pretty weird and not great that the Yankees still insist on enforcing their hair policy" Also potentially illegal since people could have a beard for religious reasons
Meg Rowley
5:14
Imagine they wouldn't press the point if that were pointed to as the reason, but it's bad even when religion isn't involved!
Morbo
5:14
Meg can you tell Jerry Dipoto thanks for sending us O'Neill
Meg Rowley
5:14
We aren't acquainted
Ben Clemens
5:14
That trade worked out well for everyone
The Mariners have gotten a lot of good innings out of Gonzales
Meg Rowley
5:15
That was... not a great play from Patrick Wisdom
Guest
5:15
re:bat knob.  They call that bat a hockey puck knob. Votto will be using one too.
Farhandrew Zaidman
5:15
Are there any studies on the effect of custom bat handles?(Ex: Mookie has an axe handle, I'm pretty sure someone else went custom this offseason).
Morbo
5:17
Kolten Wong also uses an ax handle bat so
Meg Rowley
5:17
lol it is so windy in KC, my goodness
Duke of Barrel
5:18
The experimental helmet cam of a unicycle rider that is the KC CF camera is a complete failure
Meg Rowley
5:19
The poor camera operator is doing their best but
Ben Clemens
5:19
Yeah that is too much wind!
Finnegan's Seam-shifted Wake
5:20
Bryant had an axe bat at one point as well: ""I love the Axe Bat," Anthony Iapoce said. "It aligns your knuckles. Forces your knuckles to be aligned and creates the right angle of the barrel above the head.""
Meg Rowley
5:20
Tell us the truth, do you sell Axe Bats?
Doug Lampert
5:20
I can't imagine how you'd study the effect of custom bat handles, convince 20 MLB players to swap from standard to ax on alternating years for 4 years or something?
Jacques Pederson
5:20
Derrick Goold wrote a nice piece on Goldschmitt's new bat. But I think the axe handle was more for ergonomics while the puck is for weight distribution.
Eel Ffilc
5:21
Do you game times get longer as the season progresses?
Meg Rowley
5:21
My instinct would be to say they're longerish at the start when starters aren't as stretched out, then dip, then go up slightly at the end, though probably less dramatically now that rosters only expand to 28?
Lou Gehrig
5:22
Best 1B ever?  Hold my beer.
Ben Clemens
5:22
Best NL first baseman
Luke Hooper
5:23
finally someone struggled with the wind
Wireless Joe Jackson
5:24
A mid inning pitching change and two mound visits in the same half inning.  Painful.
Ben Clemens
5:24
I watch a lot of NL Central games. Molina and Contreras are two of the worst offenders of the "he's just going out there to talk"
Eel Ffilc
5:25
They gave Dozier a double, should that be a double?
Luke Hooper
5:25
I just can't imagine how that's not an error.
Finnegan's Seam-shifted Wake
5:26
Doesn't help that the Cubs also aren't planning on using the pitchcom devices (to start at least)
Ben Clemens
5:26
I don't exactly understand their stated reasoning, that their pitchers were getting crossed up too much
Doesn't it literally say the name of the pitch in your ear?
Meg Rowley
5:26
it does
Ben Clemens
5:26
That is confusing!
Logan
5:27
Maybe the Pirates should send Newman down to work on his defense, a shame they don't have another SS
Luke Hooper
5:27
And they said they need more practice. Like they just left the practice portion of the calendar.
Duke of Barrel
5:29
Maybe it whispers it in a super seductive way, and when it called for a "knuckler" or a "slider", it kept throwing them off their game.
Doug Lampert
5:29
Has Newman missed more than one play yet?
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