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| Name: | nate jansen |
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tron7 has posted 3 links and 600 comments to SportsFilter and 1 link and 148 comments to the Locker Room.
Chargers fine Cromartie $2,500.00 for tweeting: That's $17.86 per character.
posted by tron7 to football at 10:54 AM on August 05 - 16 comments
MMA Fantasy Draft: If every fighter in the world was suddenly declared a free agent, what order would they be selected in?
posted by tron7 to boxing at 12:56 PM on April 21 - 10 comments
Shawne Merriman suspended for steroids.: The four game suspension comes less than a week after the news of the Falcon's Matt Lehr and the Lion's Shaun Rogers receiving steroid suspensions.
posted by tron7 to football at 09:50 AM on October 23 - 33 comments
Get Well Soon: Write a letter to Barbaro. Follow-up story and link to the Barbaro message board here.
posted by tron7 to navel gazing at 02:43 PM on May 25 - 11 comments
If he's not that good, why couldn't Adidas just let this slide? This seems like worse press than letting son-of-Jordan where his dad's shoes.
posted by tron7 at 11:21 AM on November 06
No. I can't imagine many 11 year olds read this site. Not our core demographic.
posted by tron7 at 12:11 PM on November 05
I just wish things had gone better for Pedro last night, but it wasn't meant to be; too cold, too old.
How cold was it last night? I saw the game, but there was no sound, and I never got the impression it was cold out.
posted by tron7 at 11:45 AM on November 05
The Yankees intake air sharply!
That's not air.
posted by tron7 at 11:35 AM on November 05
It should be pointed out that I was drunk, the bat was not.
posted by tron7 at 12:13 PM on November 02
The Sunday night game has been around for 20 years. How long has October baseball been around? posted by bperk at 10:43 AM on November 02
How long as November baseball been around? They should try to wrap it up by Halloween at least, IMO.
posted by tron7 at 11:12 AM on November 02
Yeah. That's why I could side with PETA if they made a stink about this.
For killing a bat by accident? Have you never set a mouse trap?
I had a house that bats constantly got into. Broom and towel were my disposal method of choice, never killed one either. Drunken bat wrangling was a surprisingly good time.
posted by tron7 at 11:03 AM on November 02
On edit, I just saw tron's second comment. I was not aware that Legion Baseball had a bat restriction. Is this true for all Legion leagues, or is it a local option? When was this rule put in? I umpired Legion up until about 5 years ago here in NH, and I do not remember this rule.
I played in '98. It seems likely I'm remembering wrong and we were still using the 5 drops then, from your post it looks like 2001 was the switch.
posted by tron7 at 05:33 PM on October 30
This incident happened in a Legion game, which is a significantly under-reported fact in this story. The governing body will likely adopt bat restrictions after this, if it has not already.
I used to play American Legion ball and we had to use 3 drops at the time so they already have some restriction. I think whatever restrictions you add the bat companys will continue to push the envelope because that's their job.
posted by tron7 at 04:19 PM on October 30
What are the solutions to that problem, and how would the anti-lawsuit people achieve that solution?
I think the goal should be to get back to wood bats where there's a limit to how powerful you can make them. I think the way to do that would be to file suit against the leagues. Maybe there's another way to get leagues to switch but I'm not sure what that would be.
Metal bats were created as a cheaper alternative to wood but I think we're well past that as metal bats have so much tech in them that they are no longer a cheap option. Not to mention metal bats are good for one season and then they are done due to losing pop or just losing the tech war with next year's new alloy. If price is still an issue, composite bats last about as long as today's metal at a slightly cheaper price tag.
posted by tron7 at 04:15 PM on October 30
The jury agreed with them, and now the entire bat industry has to assess whether it's doing enough to avoid similar litigation.
Competetion dictates that they will not stop making bats that hit balls faster because that is what the consumer wants. This is why I think it's a bad strategy to go after the bat company, they have little incentive to make things safer even with this lawsuit. All this means is that they'll put warnings on the product, which doesn't make anything safer. This lawsuit won't solve anything.
posted by tron7 at 01:08 PM on October 30
While I hope everyone goes back to wood bats, I really don't like this decision. The're punishing the bat company for making an effective product. Why didn't they file suit against the league for having a rule book that allows metal, that would bring about more change than suing the bat makers.
posted by tron7 at 11:35 AM on October 30
Fox will have a camera on Brett Favre the entire game this Sunday.
Well ESPN missed the Favre plays his old team angle a few weeks ago.
posted by tron7 at 06:12 PM on October 29
Then, after the damage is done, they make some perfectly phrased apology,
I think the majority of the population would tweet differently than they would write up a formal apology.
posted by tron7 at 11:08 AM on October 28
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle
XX is going to be difficult.