Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #175: A 500-Post At Bat (Resulting in a Fly-Ball Out)

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This one's for you, Brandon Belt.
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I saw the Braves are planning to call up Joey Bats and have them be their everyday 3B. I'm happy someone is giving him a shot. I forgive him for being a whiny baby because his home run + bat flip in the playoffs was so electrifying.

We should just have that on loop in Dundas Square for the next 48 hours.
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How many times would the Caps have made the Eastern conference finals if they didn't have to play the Penguins in the second round every year? Has the NHL's horrendous playoff system caused the Caps to look worse than they really are?

also the Caps are booked to lose to the Penguins again now

SkynyrdRocker posted...

How many times would the Caps have made the Eastern conference finals if they didn't have to play the Penguins in the second round every year? Has the NHL's horrendous playoff system caused the Caps to look worse than they really are?

also the Caps are booked to lose to the Penguins again now

As a Caps fan, I'm hard to argue that, given the Caps' playoff history....
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I just read the article about how baseball is widely heading towards the three-true-outcomes.

Then I remembered an article I read the other day about a lot of pitchers using pine tar, or lotion if they're sensitive to the blisters that pine tar causes. And no one gets called out on it since pitchers from every team do it. It makes sense that strikeouts would be increased.

Then I remembered that article about the change to the baseballs last year that reduced air resistance and made them fly further. It makes sense that home runs would be increased.

Walks are only up for certain players at this point, but I'm sure some article will break this down later to complete the trifecta.

The soaring home run rate also contributes to the increased strikeout rate because now guys know that it's strategically viable to sell out for power when even the lowliest infielders are capable of hitting 20 homers. So they try and succeed to hit more homers and strike out more because contact hitting is less of a concern, and also because pitching velocities are insanely high so it kind of makes sense to roll the dice and try for a bomb instead of letting yourself get sawed off or jammed on weak contact if you choke up. Plus the velocities make striking out easier anyway.

Missouri lawmakers are citing our sociopath rapist Governor's crimes as an example of what can happen in a hypersexualized society in their bid to turn porn into a public health crisis.

I'm going to start watching as much porn as I can before they take it away

It's way too easy to find porn nowadays, but that's pretty dumb. You're not going to get rid of the porn, there's too much on the internet. I'm not sure if that's what "public health crisis" means, though; judging by how opioids have gone, it mainly seems to be a symbolic gesture. Death penalty for porn directors maybe?

Yeah I'm not sure what their goal is either because they haven't been talking about banning it. I think they want to do like public school education on the horrors of porn, and maybe PSA's and stuff like that. Probably like the ads you see at train stations for health stuff too. Just some weird puritanism that I found funny because of how they used our beautiful governor for it.

By the way, not that there's any reason why you guys would know this, but the Governor Greitens defense force on facebook is arguably 100x crazier than the Trump defense force. You know how you'll see psychos who are like "how is this relevant to the great job he's doing" when Trump says like all dogs are boys and all cats are girls or whatever, well Missouri facebook is full of people going "I don't care if Greitens made a naked woman lie on a bed of hot coals as long as he keeps up the good work!"

Lol, teaching kids about porn in school is just going to let them know it exists. Maybe kids already know these days, I don't know. I had to have been at least 10 by the time I knew what porn was. It would fit in with a HS health class, at least, but nobody is going to give a shit

I wonder how well those child firewall things work these days. I'm sure kids at school always pass along how to get around them. There's just too much damn porn for kids to not find it.

People can get legitimately addicted to it, but that applies to most things and I feel like you'd have to be watching a huge amount of it for it to become a problem. I guess there are people who just watch it to watch it but for most people it's transactional so even if they use it every day it doesn't add up to much.

That is something I should ask the principal at my kids' school. When they first got more computers in the classes and media center they told us parents there were a limit of what pages they have access to and couldn't play games on them. Two weeks later pretty much everyone is going on youtube and playing Minecraft. Now kids down to 1st grade are playing the Five Nights at Freddy's games.
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Sounds like they need to learn to use a whitelist instead of a blacklist.

At least Minecraft is pseudo-educational. I wish I played that in school instead of Math Blaster... in hindsight. I'll admit that getting to play Math Blaster was pretty awesome at the time

SteamedHams posted...

At least Minecraft is pseudo-educational

Is it really tho? Besides the creativity/hand eye coordination or whatever arguments you can make for most other video games

You can build circuits and logic gates and shit in it, but I don't know if that many little kids really do that. At least it might spark an interest if they watch YouTube videos of it, even if they don't build it themselves. Personally, I never built much more than simple on/off circuits since it's pretty cumbersome, but some kids probably have much more patience than me

I'm like an old man now when it comes to video games, I don't play as much or know much about the latest games. My kids play minecraft and I do know they make some kind of circuits and logic gates. They were explaining it to me but I didn't understand what they were fully explaining. I don't know how complex they were to build but it was interesting.
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I still wouldn't say it's educational though. It could in theory be used as an educational tool, but that doesn't mean every kid who plays it will learn something.

STLCards1991 posted...

I still wouldn't say it's educational though. It could in theory be used as an educational tool, but that doesn't mean every kid who plays it will learn something.

That was my thinking

I guess to be fair he did say "pseudo" educational.

I wen't to macy's to buy some dress shoes and they had the dumbest promotion ever. I was checking out and they said they have a "presale" deal going on and if I come back to pick up the shoes on Friday I'll get 30% off. It was such a weird concept that it took me a second to get what they were saying. I obviously said no and took them home. I would pay 30% extra to not have to come back.

I guess the idea behind it is if I leave and come back Friday I'll buy more stuff while I'm picking up the shoes? I have no idea

Assdribble leads in the NL in batting average apparently

MNTwins1991 posted...

I wen't to macy's to buy some dress shoes and they had the dumbest promotion ever. I was checking out and they said they have a "presale" deal going on and if I come back to pick up the shoes on Friday I'll get 30% off. It was such a weird concept that it took me a second to get what they were saying. I obviously said no and took them home. I would pay 30% extra to not have to come back.

I guess the idea behind it is if I leave and come back Friday I'll buy more stuff while I'm picking up the shoes? I have no idea

As a former Macy's employee, yes, that is what they want you to do. However, here's a pro tip: if you complain enough or get a cool young sales associate they will probably just give you the pre-sale price right there.

MNTwins1991 posted...

I guess the idea behind it is if I leave and come back Friday I'll buy more stuff while I'm picking up the shoes? I have no idea

I know fuck all about Macy's, but honestly, who wants to buy stuff at Macy's?

Whenever I shop, they usually give me a percentage off if I come in to buy between a very specific date range, which is too much effort.
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Honestly I for sure wouldn't buy dress shoes at Macy's. I don't know if they have DSW where you guys live but the deals there a million times better

I usually go to macy's because I have a macy's card which is 20% off everything in addition whatever their sales are, plus it's close to my house. I hate clothes shopping more than almost anything, but you can get pretty good stuff for a reasonable price there. I just ignore their certain date/time coupons.

I just needed a pair of brown dress shoes that I probably won't need to wear again and I got a pretty ok deal. And goddammit, I think they look nice

That's fine. I am probably biased anyway because the men's shoes department at my Macy's is pretty abysmal. I buy all my work shirts there though

My dress shoes are from Kohl's I think, which probably isn't even as fancy as Macy's. They're fine. I don't think most people really judge your dress clothes too much

When I dissed Macy's shoes I wasn't talking about how fancy they are. Besides I think for a regular persons purposes Macy's is plenty fancy and hell so is Kohl's. I wore shoes from Payless to a job interview

I'm a fucking hipster and I spent way too much on a pair of wool shoes. But goddamn are they super comfortable.
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Wool shoes? Are they slippers?

Nah, they're casual runners made from merino wool. They're amazing.
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Zeeky_Bomb posted...

Nah, they're casual runners made from merino wool. They're amazing.

pics

here's pics of my on sale macy's shoes

That's a great pair.

That's a fancy-ass mouse and keyboard, or at least it is to me. I have some basic Dell keyboard I got for like $4 at Goodwill.

And the shoes look good. I don't have any brown ones anymore. I used to wear brown ones for work but then I started getting ones that were less dressy since I realized some people get away with sneakers (but I never took it that far)

And mine.
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I also gotta say... I was at macy's for a good 45 minutes, went to the dressing room a couple times (also bought a couple pairs of shorts) and their soundtrack absolutely shredded.
highlights were:
Head Over Feet by Alanis Morissete
DJ Khaled - I'm The One ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance (I non ironically like this song)
Mr. Brightside by the Killers

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

I'm a fucking hipster and I spent way too much on a pair of wool shoes. But goddamn are they super comfortable.

genuinely curious. They look comfy. can you only wear those lounging indoors as a pair of comfy shoes (since they're wool), or are they more like loafers/sneakers?
you said runners in an earlier post which makes me even more confused

When I worked at Menards my favorite song to sing along to was Pompeii by Bastille.

During my Macy's days I worked behind the scenes so I always played my own music but I remember on the first of the month once when the soundtrack changed they played Human by the Killers and I yelled ooooooooohhhhh in the earshot of customers because I was so hyped. That and some early Green Day song were my two big excited moments

More like sneakers. I wore them on my bike this weekend. I was worried before buying them, but there were enough reviews that showed they would hold up after decent usage.
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The Waiting by Tom Petty was a legit insanely sick song at Menards

STLCards1991 posted...

When I worked at Menards my favorite song to sing along to was Pompeii by Bastille.

hell yeah that song bangs

I've actually been on a pretty big Alanis hook lately and right when I entered the dressing room, Head Over Feet came on and I had a mini freakout

CaptainHammer posted...

During my Macy's days I worked behind the scenes so I always played my own music but I remember on the first of the month once when the soundtrack changed they played Human by the Killers and I yelled ooooooooohhhhh in the earshot of customers because I was so hyped. That and some early Green Day song were my two big excited moments

any reasonable Macy's customer would have paid an extra 15% to hear some Holiday by Green Day. I know I would've

On the subject of dress clothes, there was once a time in my life when I owned what must have been around a dozen ties. One day I finally asked myself, why do I have all these? Most of them were pieces of shit I got from Goodwill, or my dad's rejected hand-me-downs. The coolest hand-me-down was an old-school Colorado Rockies tie which I still have, but I don't know what's an appropriate occasion to wear something like that. Also I used to have like ten dress shirts, of which maybe four of them actually fit well. Dress clothes are dumb

Yeah I have like 9 dress shirts and I only wear five of them because the rest don't fit correctly. One wash and some of them become worthless. Also you can lose a little weight and suddenly you've got a parachute on

My weight doesn't fluctuate much, but for me it's a choice between swimming in the shirt or being strangled if I want to wear a tie. I guess my neck is too fat for how skinny my body is

What are all y'alls workplace dresscodes? Mine is very casual (but of course bathe and don't look like a homeless person). In the summer I usually wear jeans/khakis and T's, and in other seasons I wear button down flannel/dress shirts (that are warm)