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When do yo think the MLB regular season will start?

On time
- 1 (33.3%)
Late, but on or before April 15th
- 0 (0%)
April 16th through April 30th
- 0 (0%)
May 1st through May 15th
- 2 (66.7%)
May 16th through May 31st
- 0 (0%)
Jun1st through June 15th
- 0 (0%)
June 16th through June 30th
- 0 (0%)
After June 30th
- 0 (0%)
No Season
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: February 13, 2022, 10:41:25 PM


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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #990 on: October 24, 2018, 11:55:48 PM »

He looks lost out there

He looks like Nureyev.

I'm old.
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« Reply #991 on: October 24, 2018, 11:58:08 PM »

Sox played about as beautiful a game of baseball as I can imagine.

Great starting pitching

timely hitting

great defense

and great relief pitching

that was beautiful

It was quite a game.

I am very happy for David Price and I hope it means he doesn't opt out of his contract.
 
I am happy to see Kimbrel pitch the way he has his last 3 outings.

And I look forward to the games in Los Angeles.

Price was great.

One shaky inning but he recovered.
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« Reply #992 on: October 25, 2018, 08:06:47 AM »

Sox played about as beautiful a game of baseball as I can imagine.

Great starting pitching

timely hitting

great defense

and great relief pitching

that was beautiful

It was quite a game.

I am very happy for David Price and I hope it means he doesn't opt out of his contract.

I am happy to see Kimbrel pitch the way he has his last 3 outings.

And I look forward to the games in Los Angeles.

Kimbrel got a call from Eric Gagne - that he was tipping his pitches.
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« Reply #993 on: October 25, 2018, 10:58:07 AM »

Sox played about as beautiful a game of baseball as I can imagine.

Great starting pitching

timely hitting

great defense

and great relief pitching

that was beautiful

It was quite a game.

I am very happy for David Price and I hope it means he doesn't opt out of his contract.

I am happy to see Kimbrel pitch the way he has his last 3 outings.

And I look forward to the games in Los Angeles.

Kimbrel got a call from Eric Gagne - that he was tipping his pitches.

Well, Cora got a call, but yes.
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« Reply #994 on: October 25, 2018, 10:59:08 AM »



There is no law preventing a league from fixing its own contest. The two closest federal laws on the books are these:

The "Quiz Show" law which was passed after it was revealed that television networks had been fixing the outcome of nationally televised game shows including Twenty-One and the $64,000 Challenge. The law reads: "(a) Influencing, prearranging, or predetermining outcome
It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to deceive the listening or viewing public—

(1) To supply to any contestant in a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill any special and secret assistance whereby the outcome of such contest will be in whole or in part prearranged or predetermined.

(2) By means of persuasion, bribery, intimidation, or otherwise, to induce or cause any contestant in a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill to refrain in any manner from using or displaying his knowledge or skill in such contest, whereby the outcome thereof will be in whole or in part prearranged or predetermined.

(3) To engage in any artifice or scheme for the purpose of prearranging or predetermining in whole or in part the outcome of a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge, intellectual skill, or chance.

(4) To produce or participate in the production for broadcasting of, to broadcast or participate in the broadcasting of, to offer to a licensee for broadcasting, or to sponsor, any radio program, knowing or having reasonable ground for believing that, in connection with a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge, intellectual skill, or chance constituting any part of such program, any person has done or is going to do any act or thing referred to in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection.

(5) To conspire with any other person or persons to do any act or thing prohibited by paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of this subsection, if one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of such conspiracy."

Note the repeated use of the word "intellectual" -- not physical. Therefore, this law does not apply to sports.

The Sports Bribery Act of 1964 which was passed to protect the "integrity" of sports from mafia and gambling interests. It reads: "Whoever carries into effect, attempts to carry into effect, or conspires with any other person to carry into effect any scheme in commerce to influence, in any way, by bribery any sporting contest, with knowledge that the purpose of such scheme is to influence by bribery that contest, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."

The key word in this law being "bribery." If a league instructs one of its employees -- be it an official, coach or athlete -- to influence and/or manipulate an outcome in a certain manner, such action does not break this law.

No one has been arrested for violating the Sports Bribery Act in relation to a professional sporting event -- ever.


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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #995 on: October 25, 2018, 11:20:48 AM »

toilet backed up again.

damn

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« Reply #996 on: October 25, 2018, 11:30:04 AM »



some grace, beauty and Air 10D can clear the air of troll shit.
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« Reply #997 on: October 25, 2018, 03:16:31 PM »

I wanted to vote Sox in 6, but the poll closed.   Anyway,  may the team that abandoned its home city receive its turn on the wheel of karma.

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« Reply #998 on: October 25, 2018, 03:54:20 PM »

Yeah.... happened to me on the '69 Super Bowl

Would have been my first big score......
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« Reply #999 on: October 25, 2018, 04:57:50 PM »

No one has been arrested for violating the Sports Bribery Act in relation to a professional sporting event -- ever.

« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 07:52:21 PM by MrUtley3 »
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« Reply #1000 on: October 25, 2018, 05:16:03 PM »



some grace, beauty and Air 10D can clear the air of troll shit.
He needs to straighten out that back leg. Horrible form.
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« Reply #1001 on: October 25, 2018, 05:18:38 PM »

I wanted to vote Sox in 6, but the poll closed.   Anyway,  may the team that abandoned its home city receive its turn on the wheel of karma.
My least and fourth least favorite teams in baseball. I am rooting for small and highly localized earthquake in the Chavez Ravine area.
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« Reply #1002 on: October 25, 2018, 06:37:31 PM »

I wanted to vote Sox in 6, but the poll closed.   Anyway,  may the team that abandoned its home city receive its turn on the wheel of karma.

It's that whole "the first game started" thing.

And the Sox scored a run maybe a minute after I closed it!
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« Reply #1003 on: October 25, 2018, 06:39:28 PM »



some grace, beauty and Air 10D can clear the air of troll shit.
He needs to straighten out that back leg. Horrible form.

I'm not a big fan of ballet, can't tell the players without a program, but I understand the leap, is known as the "Grand Jeter".

Taking nothing from Derek's dive into the stands, or the fact that he could not leap to his left, maybe its time to rename the classic move and catch the "Grand Tendi"
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« Reply #1004 on: October 25, 2018, 06:44:02 PM »



some grace, beauty and Air 10D can clear the air of troll shit.
He needs to straighten out that back leg. Horrible form.

He needs to make the back leg the front leg, WP!

The other two have their right legs forward and left back.

He must have been left back from that grade.
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