Lady Aravis said:

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jja79 said:

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Go read Brauniger's comment in his Kellner update on premium. He disagrees.

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Some of us don't have the stars to do that.

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The guy I replied to has stars and they're available if you want to read some very good baseball content.

Can you play with a broken orbital bone?

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Can you play with a broken orbital bone?

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Just pray it is a minor fracture and it will heal on its own. He probably has a ton of swelling and will have at least one raccoon eye.

We have had such crappy luck as a baseball program for years starting with Brandens broken ankle running past 3B in Supers.

BurnetAggie99 said:

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TxA&Mhunter said:

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I don't know that we can expect to see him tomorrow. Or the rest of this weekend..

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I didn't realize blocking someone erased their stars also. Now I know!

BurnetAggie99 said:

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BurnetAggie99 said:

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TxA&Mhunter said:

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I don't know that we can expect to see him tomorrow. Or the rest of this weekend..

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Hope he can come back .

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Hitting someone in retaliation never made sense to me... why give your opponent a free baserunner just because your teammate got hit? That's dumb. I don't care about "sending a message", getting 3 outs is enough of a message for me.

BurnetAggie99 said:

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TxA&Mhunter said:

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I don't know that we can expect to see him tomorrow. Or the rest of this weekend..

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My source from some players on the team is his eye is swollen shut and had a lot of swelling.

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Yeah, a broken orbital bone is a bad deal.

BoykinAg2017 said:

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Hitting someone in retaliation never made sense to me... why give your opponent a free baserunner just because your teammate got hit? That's dumb. I don't care about "sending a message", getting 3 outs is enough of a message for me.

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Tell me you've never played without telling me.

Yeah, so you couldn't be more wrong, which isn't surprising on the internet. I played baseball for 14 years. Admittedly I never played past high school, but was a varsity player for 3 years at a 4A school, including starting 2 of those years at first and pitched. So again, not the best player in the world by any means, but still played a lot of ball. Get over your romanticized idea that a starter has to plunk somebody because you got your feelings hurt from your buddy getting pegged. Get the outs and move on. And don't say "well MLB players used to do it all the time" it was ridiculous then and it's ridiculous now. Not being able to control yourself and help your team isn't cool, it's childish.

99% of baseball players played baseball for 14 years if you're going to go back to tee ball like you did, so I don't know that using that is the flex you think it is.

I don't know how to explain this to you other than just to say it, but hitting a guy, especially an important one, in retaliation means more to the guys in that dugout than getting 3 outs immediately after. Nobody is clearing a dugout when the other team retires the side.

And I'm not advocating we should have hit someone after they hit Kellner. It was an 0-2 count to the 9-hole hitter who has been struggling at the plate with one of the best players in America on deck in a close game. It wasn't intentional.

I'm not trying to flex. I even said repeatedly that I'm not the best player or anything, but I played ball. That's the point of that.

You don't have to explain your point of view, I understand what you and people like you think you're doing. I just don't agree that it's right or good, and think it's detrimental to the team. The objective is to score more runs than the other team, giving your opponent a free baserunner is antithetical to that objective. I couldn't care less about getting caught up in a dick measuring contest and would rather get the outs. As a pitcher it's my job to get outs. That's it.

My guy gets hit in the face, then their next batter is getting a plus fastball high and tight. Up to him to get out of the way.

I once had to defend my position for hitting guys in a class in college. What started with an honest conversation with the professor who loved baseball and knew I was a baseball player ended with me in front of the class explaining to horrified moms how I could ever hit their kid on purpose.