DABunn

Reformed, Baptistic, Ahmillenianist, old and tired career retailer. Seen just about everything. Learned mostly from mistakes, still learning. Go Bucks.

[DABunn @dabunn33]

@NahumOBrien The blessed man is the man whose sins have been forgiven.

[DABunn @dabunn33]

@JimmyParker87 So, I’ve read this question over and over and read the replies and the replies to the replies and I can only say - I don’t know. I have nothing for you. Just a headache and I can’t share that.
I will not give up, however.

[DABunn @dabunn33]

@prepsrecruit Less than 24,000 individual players ever played at the Major League level. Maybe stay home and play in a league; enjoy the game and the reality that it’s over soon.

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@TwinsJake

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@Johnsense38 @notgaetti There’s a hero story every game.

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@BobFrancis22 6 innings is about as frequent.

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To say ‘I pitched a perfect game in MLB’ is priceless. It’s is the goal every time a pitcher takes the mound. 243,700 games pitched; 24 perfect games. Less than 4K can say ‘I was a starter in MLB’ and 1 of them had a chance to do something all 4,000 have tried. Learn ball. 

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

Drop whatever you're doing, folks

You wanna know why I'm tough on Peter Bendix?

You wanna know why John VanderWal and other former MLB players are apoplectic over the increasingly vice-like grip of analytics on in-game baseball decisions?

It's because the Bendix playbook includes the possibility of pulling a pitcher with a perfect game in progress through 7 innings and sitting at just 92 pitches, depriving him of the exceedingly rare opportunity to pursue baseball immortality on a night where everything was working and couldn't be touched.

A generation ago, this would have been inconceivable.

You don't have to reach too far back to grasp an era in which it would have been a foregone conclusion that Eury Perez would go back out there for the 8th, and if he remained perfect, then again for the 9th. Short of a grievous injury or losing the perfect game, nothing would stop him from taking the mound and chasing those last six outs, and nothing would stop his manager from letting him.

It might have taken him 120 or 125 pitches, or about *half* as many as Nolan Ryan was known to throw during some of his wilder outings. Perez is a 23-year-old professional athlete standing 6'8" with a body and mechanics that have been finely tuned for the very specific task of throwing a baseball; he'd live to fight another day, and to make his next scheduled start. (Kids are resilient, and even more so when they have the benefit of the best training, nutrition, therapies, and recovery that professional sports can offer.)

Perez deserved the opportunity to chase greatness tonight and to finish what he started, but when the strings are being pulled by folks that never threw a baseball and don't know what it feels like to be in that flow state, to feel invincible and unhittable, to know you can't be touched... this is what happens.

Perez left the game with an 8-0 lead after throwing his 7 perfect innings, and Miami barely hung on to win the ballgame by just ONE run after their bullpen gave up 5 runs in the 8th and 3 more in the 9th. Because the Marlins ultimately won the game 9-8, half of you still think Peter Bendix is a genius. (It's that half of the population that John VanderWal is mad at.)

[DABunn @dabunn33]

@notgaetti @CPTowers @BigLeagueDigest @theaceofspaeder @TheWARmonger_ @JessicaDBrand @CodifyBaseball @shegone03 @VandyonTigers @OfficialMLBRFC @WillClark22 @threeinningfan Learn ball. 🤣

[DABunn @dabunn33]

The Christian is commanded to put on the armor of God. Scripture never tells us to take it off.
Be killing sin or sin will be killing you.

[S Rogers @sdrogers6]

@iowahawkblog "If God wanted us to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms"
Mike Ditka

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

No Americans should be allowed to play soccer

[DABunn @dabunn33]

I miss hearing “batting ninth and warming up in the bull pen”….

[Stirrups Now! @uniformcritic]

Let’s meet your 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates for Game 5 of the World Series…

[Colorado Rockies @Rockies]

Go-ahead call from @KOAColorado 👏

[DABunn @dabunn33]

Tacos

[Blake Street Banter ⚾🌮 @blakestbanter]

Oh Kyle Karros... Absolute MOONSHOT

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@anahnemoo Amazing grace.

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Give this a listen…good, good stuff!

Album - Glory Revealed II https://t.co/BAYgX5zGCc via @YouTubeMusic

[DABunn @dabunn33]

Daily Walkoff
Rockies #674

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@notgaetti He’s awful. Can’t believe he is still allowed to call balls and strikes. If it weren’t for Angel Hernandez CB would have been enemy #1 over the last 2 decades…

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@ImJimR87