Right hitter it probably goes to the 1B coach who signals to everyone else. If the runner on 3rd doesn’t know the signs (which he probably does) then the 3B coach will fill him in. But they’ve got that play called in that situation as soon as Harper gets to 3rd I’d imagine. It’s not some kooky gimmick play.

Also, FWIW, peak Ichiro got in the neighborhood of 230 hits a season - that’s being a bit generous, but it’s about right. Even if you gave Ichiro 5 more years of PEAK performance, meaning he came into the league at 22 and was immediately the best hitter in the game and never got hurt or had a down year through that…

Unless you want to use the one actual stat that defines the hitting title which is...MLB hits. I love Ichiro. But he doesn’t have the most MLB hits and he never will so unless we collectively just decide to start awarding titles based on other stats he isn’t the Hit King. Does it suck that we didn’t get to see Ichiro…

Not to dredge this whole thing up again, but I really don’t get this argument. Does any Japanese pro league have as tough of competition as AAA or even AA ball here? If the answer is no, which it is, then how can you argue for counting stats for one ostensibly minor league instead of another? Rookie league is…

Quick aside: one of my all-time favorite moments in a Bond movie was in one of the recent Daniel Craig ones where Ralph Fiennes referred to Q as “my Quartermaster” and ALL THE LETTERS SUDDENLY MADE SENSE. Maybe this had happened in a Bond movie before? It was probably in the books, but man that was a lightning bolt to…

I mean yeah $80 is pretty steep but also...........I kinda want one?

Except the moment the money makes sense they will and have done it in a heartbeat. It’s not a knee-jerk thing for sure, but corporations pull up anchor all the time.

In all seriousness, though, the dude plays ILB and is missing a significant part of one of the arms he would absolutely need to wrap up and tackle NFL ball carriers. As corny as it is to say, it’s a game of inches and any carrier would have a noticeable advantage getting by this guy. And I’m not sure what position you…

Berry’s take is bad and he should feel bad.

They’ve done it before. Look at Cincinnati.

Just read another take I hadn’t even thought of: Atlanta was one of the top contenders for the new Amazon HQ. That the state house would even think of threatening Delta with this effectively kills any chance Amazon would trust any package they would offer them so they just shot themselves in the dick on that one over…

Then Nashville. New Orleans. Jacksonville. I don’t think you understand how huge it is to be a major hub for a big four airline. It transforms a city.

They will absolutely do it. Any other city in the south would trip over their own dicks to roll out an Amazon package to entice them to move. Charlotte probably already has the Power Point slides ready.

I’m originally from Cincinnati. For decades it was Delta’s midwest hub. They employed tens of thousands in the city and kept the airport a major international hub - you could get direct flights anywhere in the US and even to most major European cities. Airfare was always reasonable. Then one day about 15 years ago…

None of this matters because Trump doesn’t know who any of these people are. If they had to wear red and blue uniforms these charades would go much differently. By tomorrow morning’s executive time Fox & Friends will have told him who the “good” guys were and what his position should have actually been and this…

I realize I am very much in the minority, but after having the current rule consistently enforced long enough for even a casual viewer to understand it I really much prefer it. It takes all the subjective work of the officials out of the equation. The Jesse James play was not a catch, period. People harp on the fact…

The con job the Republican Party has pulled on its base is utterly astounding and remarkable on a historic level. In the 70's and 80's some Very Serious Conservative Thinker could pull out their supply side theories that their rising tide would lift all boats, and some of them might have actually believed it. That is…

It is not even slightly out of the ordinary for me to see people on the NYC subway watching porn with the volume all the way up at rush hour.

Is it too much to ask the virulent racists of this country to at least put a little effort into it? Trump has really made these mouth breathers lazy with the epithets.

The fact that you’re even talking about it and investing a single dollar into its development puts you SO far ahead of anything that is happening in the eastern corridor of the US. We still have regular derailments on basically 19th century train lines. This is the largest megalopolis in the world and you would have…