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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 06:00pm PT
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BULLSH#T CALL on Gonzalez!
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Russ Walling
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:02pm PT
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Heyward lollypoped the throw knowing the landslug Gonzales was running. Lucky to get the call on a crappy throw.
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zBrown
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:08pm PT
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You meant landslugger, right?
13 Yrs 1804 7607 6739 968 1954 415 12 308 1146 6 6 751 1324 .290 .362 .492 .854 133 3317 195 44 4 67 154
Won some fielding awards too
2008: NL Gold Glove-1B
2009: NL Gold Glove-1B
2011: AL Gold Glove-1B
2014: NL RBI Leader;NL Gold Glove-1B
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Russ Walling
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:29pm PT
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You meant landslugger, right?
no... I didn't. He flat can't run. Smart, but slow as hell.
Edit: Addy gets his oar in the water!!! 4 zip CUBS!!!
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EdwardT
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:35pm PT
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Go Cubbies!
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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 06:38pm PT
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Did they get those hits off Urias?
(Sorry...I was somewhere else...)
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zBrown
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:40pm PT
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no... I didn't. He flat can't run. Smart, but slow as hell.
You follow baseball and I don't, but is there a list of great sluggers who could also run? The two skill sets seem to be antithetical.
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little Z
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un cafetal en Naranjo
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:42pm PT
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yes, all four runs charged to Urias. Baez (the Dodger pitcher) came on to get the last out of the inning
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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 06:43pm PT
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Damn. Poor kid.
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ms55401
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:49pm PT
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great sluggers who could also run?
two that come immediately to mind would be Griffey and pre-roids Bonds
and of course Canseco, who is criminally underrated
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Russ Walling
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:53pm PT
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You follow baseball and I don't, but is there a list of great sluggers who could also run? The two skill sets seem to be antithetical.
Sure... a bunch. Mickey Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Bonds and go through Canseco, Sosa, Bo, and now Seager. Gonzalez has like 6 stolen bases in 13 years. You can do that by just showing up. Some of them big sluggers were 30/30 guys. That is 30 homers and 30 stolen bases.
Here is a great link of the 30/30 guys. Impressive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30–30_club
Song Edit: [Click to View YouTube Video]
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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 07:02pm PT
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Damn. Looks like the Cubs have figured out Dodger's pitching.
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zBrown
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Oct 19, 2016 - 07:03pm PT
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30/30
Thanks for the list. I don't know what the numbers are, but aren't there a whole bunch of hitters, who like Adrian G., aren't runners?
Ted Williams, a local boy from Hoover High, touted as the best hitter of all time by some, didn't steal that many bases if I recall correctly.
Looked it up. Twenty-four in nineteen years.
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Russ Walling
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Oct 19, 2016 - 07:08pm PT
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Thanks for the list. I don't know what the numbers are, but aren't there a whole bunch of hitters, who like Adrian G., aren't runners?
Sure... lots of players can't run, not just sluggers. But to say that he can't run just because he is a slugger (which is sorta debatable anyway) is not the case. He is just slow. He is not alone!
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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 07:17pm PT
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Yes. It's very confusing tonight.
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Russ Walling
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Oct 19, 2016 - 07:23pm PT
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Lackey is not happy about that... "are you fuking kidding me..." he says as Madden brings the hook.
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zBrown
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Oct 19, 2016 - 07:26pm PT
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Sure... lots of players can't run, not just sluggers. But to say that he can't run just because he is a slugger (which is sorta debatable anyway) is not the case. He is just slow. He is not alone!
Probably time to let this one go, but let me know if you have additional thoughts.
It's the body structure in my opinion. Super power muscles are not adapted to speed.
Take for example another hero from my day. Dude had some powerful wrists, eh?
It's been fun chattin' with you and I've learned some new stuff.
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Russ Walling
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Oct 19, 2016 - 07:30pm PT
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Probably time to let this one go,
Right. I don't even know what you are asking anymore, or where you are trying to go with it.
Let's go CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Russ Walling
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from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Oct 19, 2016 - 07:31pm PT
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damn... pitchers have got to know where the fielders are!!! That was a DP for sure!
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Russ Walling
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Oct 19, 2016 - 07:35pm PT
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Lucky there for only 2 runs. Could have been out of it clean though without the pitcher tipping that ball. Damn....
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