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- evanmyers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+54here's a link that works:
http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/multimedia/tp_archive.jsp?c_id=tor
look for May 29th, hill steals home. - BugMeNot2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+53Comment on YouTube:
"those canadian announcers talk funny" - shirosamurai, on 10/11/2007, -3/+48It's kinda funny. Chinese and Japanese sound absolutely nothing alike, but when a westerner hears an Asian language, they just take a blind guess at either Chinese or Japanese.
Reminds me of that King of the Hill scene..
Hank: Are you Chinese or Japanese?
Khan: I lived in California for last 20 years, but I am Laotian.
Bill: You come from the ocean?
Khan: No, stupid. I come from Laos. A small country in Asia. Population 4.8 million.
Hank: So are you Chinese or Japanese? - Joweyjojo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+46i believe the language is mandarin and not japanese
- xrisnothing, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22***** the MLB. They obviously don't want anyone watching baseball anymore.
- fuelvolts, on 10/11/2007, -3/+23That guy must have watched the ending to the sandlot as a kid a lot!
- hotlunch, on 10/11/2007, -6/+24The Yankees suck.
And mad props to Aaron Hill. It's great to see a near-league minimum player embarrass the ***** out of two guys that make up about $18 million dollars (Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera.)
Maybe someday Steinbrenner will realize that just because you pay a guy $9 mill doesn't mean that he'll pay attention to the runner more, rather than his checking account.
Go Tigers. - Anpheus, on 11/06/2007, -7/+21You are making an unfair judgement against people unfamiliar with other cultures and languages. The same bias that affects how people perceive the unique qualities of a particular face, that is, why Caucasians are more able to learn, remember, and later recognize Caucasian faces as compared to African or Asian faces, applies also to language and other cultural identifiers. While Mandarin and Japanese obviously sound nothing alike to anyone fluent in or learning either language, to someone who has little experience with and only reduced visibility of those languages, they may sound much more alike than say, Spanish and German, which are much more visible in the United States, and more Americans would readily identify those two as being distinct languages. On the other hand, I'm sure a great many Japanese and Chinese would easily confuse German and English, or Spanish and English.
- hotlunch, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Err. Check that, Andy Pettite pitched. Which makes it even better, $25 million between the two of them. $9 mill for Posada and $16 mill for Pettite.
God bless the working man. - Berry, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Working direct link:
http://tinyurl.com/34n7ys - gregmo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15considering the unbelievable play that happened the mandarin announcers are much more exciting to listen to than the english ones
- WestDC, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13I believe he needs to hit the other fella with the ball.
- ekleinunt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12It was not a "force out." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_out
Because the batter did not become a runner nor were there 3 players already on base, the rule does not apply here. - jedicor, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13When a player HAS to run to that base, it requires nothing more than the person catching the ball with their foot on the base/plate. An optional play (such as stealing a base) requires a physical tag (and does NOT require the player to be touching the base/plate when they catch the ball), which is why it's so much more difficult to get people out when they try to steal a base. The tag requirement is the incentive to steal the base, hoping that you can beat the throw AND the tag.
edit: ekleinunt with the wiki link. - jivemasta, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13http://youtube.com/watch?v=9FAOC-4b1FU
In english. - bigfkncee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10@hotlunch (#6951128)
that wasn't mariano...it was Andy Pettite - xGBox, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Yes, it is mandarin.
When a steal like this requires 6 replays you know that's gotta be good - disillusioned, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Since there is no FORCE play (meaning there are no runners behind him forcing him to advance forward), he actually needs to TAG the runner with the ball (or the glove that contains the ball.)
If it's a force, you simply need to be on the base. This is how stolen bases are achieved. If they didn't require a tag, it would be nearly impossible to successfully steal.
He just happened to have his foot on the base--for a tag, it's not at all required. You're attempting to tag the player BEFORE they touch the base. Where you stand is of no merit when it's not a force. - drummerjed, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9as a red sox fan, it's not that fun to mock yankees fans anymore. what with them being 14 and a half games behind. normally there neck and neck and it's all in good fun. now it's just cruel. but fun.
- Holyfool19, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7If coaches were daring ***** like this more frequently, I'd watch a lot more baseball.
- CaesarBlue, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Peter V. Liebenstein a.k.a. PradaPete
One look at your profile and comments reveals something to me:
you, kind sir, are a douchebag. Anyone know how to say 'douchebag' in Mandarin, Japanese, or German?
Welcome to the BlockList PradaPete. - SWiG, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Who watched it in the first place?
- jeff303, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5For real. I tried to leave a comment on their website about this but it exceeded their 500 character maximum for the webform! Bah
I was browsing the incredibly popular social news site digg.com when I ran across a story linking to a video clip hosted on Youtube of a home base steal in an MLB game. When I tried to view the video, however, Youtube indicated it had been removed. I dug a bit deeper and found the video hosted on an "official" MLB site but that video player refused to work with my setup. In short, I had some interest in watching a clip from MLB, I went to some effort to try to watch it (must more than most people would), and having failed to watch the video in a reasonable amount of time, lost interest. This pretty much sums up my fleeting interest in MLB in general. Don't make the same mistake as the NFL and become so stupidly paranoid about controlling content that you actually PREVENT people from watching the content. - jivemasta, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6@PradaPete
A lot of asian languages sound similar to the untrained ear. If someone has what I would call basic exposure to asian languages(just hear it on TV in the occaisional news broadcast with subtitles and such) they would never be able to tell the difference. It's not stupidity, it's ignorance. Two different things. You are displaying stupidity by acting superior to anyone not knowing all of the hundreds of different flavors of asian dialect. I am displaying ignorance by not being able to tell the difference. The difference being, I am wrong because I do not know any better, you are wrong because you are stupid. Maybe do a small experiment, take three samples of asian writing out(katakana, mandarin and simplified chineese) and ask random people which is which. I bet at least 90% will get it wrong, 5% will get it by luck and the last 5% will get it by either being asian or into asian culture enough to know. - everfalling, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6oh ok i see. thanks.
- grinndaddy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Some interesting stuff about Aaron Hill, the player who stole home in this clip:
Hill calls Team USA his favorite college experience, despite the attitude he encountered while wearing the red, white and blue. "Nobody else likes the USA," he said with a laugh. "It was weird to play in Italy and everyone on the other team gets applause, and then they introduce us and no one is clapping. Not one person. I think we were playing Czech Republic, and their players were just talking and we couldn’t understand them and running their mouths, and one of our guys started mouthing off back at him. Then one of their players kind of leaned in, and I guess the only English he knew was, ‘Shut up, *****.’ Like I said, nobody likes us."
Hill comes from an athletic family. His brother, Michael, plays college baseball, his dad, Walter, was a draft pick of the Oakland Athletics and his late mother, Vicky, was an excellent sprinter. "I always tell my dad that I got my athletic ability from my mom," he said. "He doesn't like that too much."
Aaron has good speed and instincts on the bases.
(src: playerprofiles.com) - kahlessreborn, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8That was was awesome running. Thank god I'm a Mets Fan.
/braces for Flame Balls - stisaac, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5King of the hill video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qXFOhtS3uo
Skip to 0:40 for the good part. - ElementCDN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Gotta love Toronto. Did you notice the guy wearing the Maple Leaf's jersey....
- Samzo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez
- Edorey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5THAT is ballsy baseball
- mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Jackie Robinson, did it 19 times in his career
- RollFizzlebeef, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I'd like to thank all the "Chinese, not Japanese" retards for stopping by.
Christ. - grinndaddy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Also, baseball is intensely popular in Japan, even more so than here in the States. So if I wasn't sure if it was Japanese or some other Asian language, I'd guess Japanese.
- TimeIsTissue, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3That Negus stole mah' home plate!
- quinnmct, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4yankees. suck.
- NoctemSaiyaku, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3For me, It was much sweeter because it happened to the Yankees. if you see real close Aaron had on black converse. He could fly
- aneconcept, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I was at this game... but I missed the steal because I got distracted by the wave. The replay on the jumbotron was sick though
- dfltr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Aaron has good speed and instincts on the bases."
if the clip i just saw is any indication, that's a bit of an understatement. you can see him time his start just as the pitcher hasn't quite got his weight set... beautiful play. - mwilke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Funny how at the MLB.com website I can get the ad to play like a slideshow before my selected video but the actual movie of the steal does not play at all.
- bigfkncee, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4@kahlessreborn (#6950969)
don't worry,they can flame all they want.....we're in 1st place....and staying there too
Lets Go Mets! - directedition, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2And any white person that visits Japan will automatically be assumed to speak English. Most specifically, assumed to be Americans. Because, what other white people are there?
And that is clearly Chinese. Chinese is quite distinct. Japanese and Korean can sound alike. Thai can sometimes be difficult to tell. - shigi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@grindaddy
I would normally agree, except that it's a Yankees game. Usually if you hear an Asian broadcast of a Yankees game, it'll more likely than not be Mandarin, due to the fact that Taiwanese people follow the Yankees religiously because of Chien Ming Wang, one of their starting pitchers (who is Taiwanese). - 1773nium, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2They were PF Flyers.
- chucksmooth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@kahlessreborn & bigfkncee
i hope Jose Reyes gets a chance to see this video, only a matter of time before he swipes home - blaaguuu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, the current Commissioner of the MLB, Bud Selig, has been doing everything in his power to destroy the sport... I believe he also wants (and I think it might be like this now) the MLB organization to have sole rights to MLB statistics. that means nobody can legally quote any official stats without paying them a license fee...
I still love the game, myself - But it needs to get with the times. - Haydeng, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I went to get some dough nuts today, and the workers there drove me crazy. All of those freaking Vietnamese people just pick one syllable out of every word instead of saying the whole thing.
- chattin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's a shame that this whole comment board is revolving around the language of the commentary... Go Jays Go, they needed that play... Well Done.
- Emilio8605, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Would've been more entertaining if it would've been a regular pitch instead of a pitch out and the batter would've swung. Then either Posada or Hill could've gotten popped.
- cycledesign, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Yes, it's a mighty awesome play but it's not that insane. I just watched Matt Holliday do that in August. I wouldn't say you don't see it "anywhere anymore".
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