FlyingTiger06

Up three, but we are fricking around trying to pick off the runner at first. Bad throw gets him to second. Then routine ground ball to SS and instead of taking the definite out at 1st we try to get the lead runner at third, but the throw is high and he gets in under the tag. Now we sit 1st and 3rd with nobody out. Just not smart baseball.

Their catcher tried. He watched the pitch clock until it hit 10 and then turned to face Evans. That didn't work either.

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im sure they have staff that has some kind of device or routine they put the bat through

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Hell, just invite a bunch of students to go to the batting cage with them. I'm sure you could find enough baws in the student body that played decent enough in HS to give those bats a wring out.

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I don't know why Ploesti doesn't have the same status in the Air Force

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Because the AF is too infatuated with fighter pilots. Fighter pilots have been ruling the roost in the AF since the late 80s and it's why the AF is in a death spiral right now. Way short on pilots (and other aircrew), not enough aircraft to really accomplish the mission, aircraft availability and mission capable rates of the entire fleet are in the toilet, years behind in strike weapon development, and a huge imbalance in long range strike capability (to include tankers to extend aircraft range) versus short range capabilities. That's fine for fighting 3rd world shitholes like Afghanistan and Iraq where we can base in their backyard. But against China who can reign 1,000s of surface to surface missiles on our bases in the Pacific each day, that is a path to disaster.

But no one cares because the fighter pilots are cool and have to know what's right. Just like with the entire premise of the need for F-18s in Top Gun: Maverick. Having to do a low-level penetration through that "canyon" and then the ridiculous Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) delivery was completely unnecessary. That mission could have been completed by a single B-2 bomber with the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). But as we say, fighters and fighter pilots make great movies...bombers and bomber crews win wars.

I don’t get that at all. Milam was only about 3 steps around third when the ball got to the cutoff man. He was out by a mile.

Here's one from Reddit.

Agreed

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We had them on the ropes.

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And since our offense has gone into a shell and their reliever is eating up innings instead of making them eat further into their bullpen.

None in elementary or middle school, but once during senior year of high school. Some buddies and I checked out of school to go "research our senior project at the SLU Library." What we really did was get drunk and go frick around Hammond Square Mall with the intent to get back to school in time for me to attend baseball practice. Everything was fine until one of my friends couldn't contain himself and starts acting a complete fool during the recess before 5th period. Once he was busted, they hit all of us who checked out with him. 2 day suspension which made me miss the first round of baseball playoffs, but we got our arse handed to us anyway. Dad worked offshore, so I had to wait several days before catching that arse whooping. As someone else pointed out, the waiting was definitely worse and took several days not just hours.

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If there is a video...

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That may be fair for your statement, but I've seen throughout this thread others saying it is a definite that she called him a fig for not jumping on the train. I had asked for a video of that a few pages back but it probably got consumed by all the back and forth between you, ell, and Chad. :cheers: