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re: Question 30+ years old. Seeking answers!

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daveake 07:47 am UTC 06/18/09
In reply to: re: Question 30+ years old. Seeking answers! - Vin 02:56 am UTC 06/18/09

LOL, even thought I haven't a clue what you're talking about ;-)

> Hmmmmmm........ Clearly Jim intended it this way, you
> know, for the comparative functionality vis a vis the
> extended baseball / foreplay metaphor. To wit, just as
> the suicide squeeze is an exciting play (arguably the MOST
> exciting), if its executed at the wrong time, or in the
> wrong situation, well then, what the fuck??? I mean,
> right??? So following through metaphorically, if the dude
> went for the wrong move in the backseat, or the RIGHT
> move, the most exciting move ("The Shocker," anyone?) but
> at the wrong time, then the girl gives him the ol' "What
> the fuck, boy?" Maybe that's why she held him up in the
> first place; he went for the suicide squeeze when the
> moment just wasn't right. At which point he had to talk
> himself into eternal commitment just to get it wet.
> Maybe, had he judicially foregone the suicide squeeze,
> accurately judging the circumstances to be less than
> ideal, and gone for a more appropriate, if less exciting,
> play, the whole thing would have gone smoother, she
> wouldn't have abruptly stopped him, and before she knew
> what hit her, he'd have slipped one across the plate.
>
> Jim has probably been waiting 25 years for somebody to
> pick up on this.
>
>
>
> :)
>
> >
> > Two down, nobody on, no score, bottom of the ninth (at the
> > beginning).
> >
> > One man on third, still with 2 out when the squeeze is
> > executed. The suicide squeeze is about as exciting a
> > play as there is in baseball, but it doesn't make sense
> > with 2 outs.
> > > Wait. Aren't there two on, and NOBODY out???
> > >
> > > > No. A serious logistical question about the baseball
> > > > interlude in Paradise.
> > > >
> > > > > Is this some sort of crazy spy code?
> > > > >
> > > > > > Why would you do a suicide squeeze with two outs? Isn't
> > > > > > that really bunting for a single? Throw to first!


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