What will Mark Grace have to talk about now [Maple Bats]?

MLB will be studying maple bats next season to deterimine if there needs to be a change. They'll be looking at how they're cut, dried, and materials used all in an effort to ~~appease Mark Grace~~ make the game safer.

6 months ago soco Comment 11 comments 0 recs |

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He'll

still be able to rag on OPS+, ERA+, VORP, etc.

4/1/1983-11/27/2007 * RIP#21 * The Eternal Redskin

by DbacksSkins on Dec 10, 2008 10:41 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Also

His love of pizza.

"I'm here to advise you on dispensing horror in this modern military climate. I understand you're a demigod, that's fantastic!"

by kishi on Dec 10, 2008 11:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And signs

and cars

and maybe baseball.

But in the meantime, with an official report, this topic’ll get a little extra attention for a while. I’ll bet we hear lots about it from Grace before the topic disappears.

"We...probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." — Terry Bisson

by Scrbl on Dec 10, 2008 10:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's actually

Daron who brings up signs, not Grace. At least, it’s mainly Daron.

Fire Vinny Cerrato, the raquetball partner.

by DbacksSkins on Dec 10, 2008 11:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know of you knew this

but we need more signs.

You keep on rowin', and I'll keep on smilin'.

by soco on Dec 11, 2008 12:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

We need

more Doug Slaten signs.

Fire Vinny Cerrato, the raquetball partner.

by DbacksSkins on Dec 11, 2008 12:31 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

There are few things worse

Than artificially-created traditions. Remember the efforts a couple of seasons back to make Brown-Eyed Girl the Arizona version of Sweet Caroline? That pretty much tanked, didn’t it. Fans bringing out signs is good. Fans bringing out signs for specific players, is great. Fans doing so in response to relentless demands from the commentators…not so good.

by Jim McLennan on Dec 11, 2008 12:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs