World Series Game 2: New Land Speed Record?

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When Vin Scully invoked the names of Duke Snyder, Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, and Gil Hodges, all of whom made me fall in love with baseball, I lost it. Best first pitch ever. I guess I have to pull for the Dodgers now. I was indifferent up to that point
 
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Zupcic Fan said:
When Vin Scully invoked the names of Duke Snyder, Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, and Gil Hodges, all of whom made me fall in love with baseball, I lost it. Best first pitch ever. I guess I have to pull for the Dodgers now. I was indifferent up to that point
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Lonborg - game two of the 1967 series.
 
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Zupcic Fan said:
When Vin Scully invoked the names of Duke Snyder, Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, and Gil Hodges, all of whom made me fall in love with baseball, I lost it. Best first pitch ever. I guess I have to pull for the Dodgers now. I was indifferent up to that point
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Well said. I need to send my mom a clip of this. She's a Brooklyn Dodgers fan.
 
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Beautiful Day? Oh man, that makes me think of the 2001 Pats! Great outro music.

Also, holy crap, Verlander is on tonight. Given expected batted ball rates and various base/non Statcast metrics, thought that would be a bit of a whiff of a deal. Yeah, I'm wrong.

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They signed Verlander with two seconds to spare? MLB uses atomic clocks?
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You act surprised by this in a game where homers are affectionately called bombs.
 
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Man, these guys are dealing.

I don't understand how Hill's fastball isn't 97.... it looks like 97, not 90. And that curve is just silly.
 
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I was sorry and puzzled by the Sox failure to sign Hill. I know, they had a full complement of pitchers, but couldn't they have made it work somehow?
 
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I pine pretty damn hard for Statcast, but I can't be the only one bothered by RPMinute, right? Did some tests on it around the ASB and found it's far too dependent on velocity as a timed measurement. In its place, I created RPPitch based off of Trackman distances. Despite what RPM would show you, Verlander's cutter, as a prominent example, actually moves more on average than his fastball.
 
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Delonte James Jr. said:
I pine pretty damn hard for Statcast, but I can't be the only one bothered by RPMinute, right? Did some tests on it around the ASB and found it's far too dependent on velocity as a timed measurement. In its place, I created RPPitch based off of Trackman distances. Despite what RPM would should you, Verlander's cutter, as a prominent example, actually moves more on average than his fastball.
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Interesting. Do you have another explanation for why his cutter moves more?
 
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Oh wow, terrible read by Reddick there. Might have scored with a good one.

And it doesn't matter.... Taylor got way lucky there.
 
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