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Quote: Originally posted by Jtpsops on 6/10/2010How you read "Selig shouldn't over turn the call" and get "We think this won't lead to any changes in how replays are handled" is beyond me.

How you read, period, is beyond me. I'm surprised you were able to learn it.

You MUST either think this, OR think that the changes will be just fine (like Mike, who expressly said he trusts Selig not to screw anything up ever again, because he's 'learned his lesson.').
6/10/2010 2:46 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by MikeT23 on 6/08/2010To his credit, Selig learned a lesson.
6/10/2010 2:46 PM
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Sorry, "learned a lesson" was the quote.

Forgive my poor scholarship, as I forgive you morons for having no brains.
6/10/2010 2:47 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by tecwrg on 6/10/2010Stop doing this and go back and re-read the thread.

Snipped the whole image-subsituting-for-argument thing.

I don't understand... did I miss some central argument of yours? I remembered your laughable "situationally" "argument" which is as close as you've come to an argument.

Please, highlight the post where you've actually said something that wasn't easily refuted.

You know what that word means, right? If you say that something is true because two plus two equals five, and I point out your error, your argument is considered refuted.

It doesn't necessarily get us closer to the truth we're trying to get to, but it does sort of give us a "oh, right: that guy can't argue worth a damn, and is probably a moron" to guide us.
6/10/2010 2:52 PM
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6/06/2010 at 7:26 pm
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Quote: Originally posted by bosoxbill on 6/10/2010Every call ever overturned is overturned after the fact.

That's what those words mean.

It's also how causality works.

Moron.

Not after the game has ended and certainly not weeks after the fact. I fully expect the replay system will change (there seems to be a lot of favour for the NFL challenge-type system), but that doesn't mean I think Selig should give Galarraga his perfect game.

Two different arguments. You lose one, you latch on to the other like it's the same thing. Take a debate class or two.

"Moron."
6/10/2010 3:10 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By bosoxbill on 6/10/2010
Quote: Originally posted by MikeT23 on 6/08/2010 To his credit, Selig learned a lesson.


I stand by this snipped quote. How many days passed before Selig declared the A/S game would decide home field advantage for the playoffs after he declared a tie?

That said, no one else has to stand by it. Why do you insist that everyone who thinks you're an annoying dumbass is in full agreement on baseball issues? We just agree that you're an annoying dumbass.
6/10/2010 3:15 PM
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I agree with Mike.
6/10/2010 3:17 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Jtpsops on 6/10/2010 I fully expect the replay system will change (there seems to be a lot of favour for the NFL challenge-type system),

Do you think this is good for baseball? I think I remember you saying that you disapprove of it, generally.
6/10/2010 3:22 PM
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Serious question for billy: why do you think an NFL-like system would not be good for baseball? Skip the drama and hyperbole, just give a straight answer.
6/10/2010 3:30 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by tecwrg on 6/10/20106/06/2010 at 7:26 pm

You're actually right. I don't remember seeing this post.

You're wrong about whether or not calls have been overturned. Pine Tar Game.

They have been overturned. Sure, it was by a "president" and not a "commissioner" - Do you really think that matters? Is that the basis for your entire argument, that the person doing the overturning had a different title?

Another lesson of that game: in the absence of nice tight clear rules, a clusterf*ck ensued.
6/10/2010 3:30 PM
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The Pine Tar game was upholding a protest on a rules interpretation. It did not overturn an umpire's judgement call, which is non-protestable. Two completely different things.

We covered this back on page four of this thread.
6/10/2010 3:33 PM
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Don't tell him that...it might hurt his argument
6/10/2010 3:36 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by bosoxbill on 6/10/2010
Quote: Originally posted by Jtpsops on 6/10/2010 I fully expect the replay system will change (there seems to be a lot of favour for the NFL challenge-type system),
Do you think this is good for baseball? I think I remember you saying that you disapprove of it, generally.

I don't really support replay, but does that mean I don't think changes are coming? You just like to attach meaning to things at your own desire.

And while I'm opposed to replay, do I think offering each manager one challenge per game, in specified situations, will destroy the game of baseball? No, I don't, especially since (unlike in the NFL), those challenges will likely go unused 80-90% of the time.
6/10/2010 3:38 PM
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