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Old Sun Jun 07, 2009, 09:53am
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Not possible. It is either a swing or a bunt, cannot be both. Anyone who tells you different is ignorant of the game and it's rules. Most people just don't know any better as it was picked up from others not in touch with the game.

You know, like Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan or any other talking head that never bothered to research and learn their respective game.
you realize "swinging bunt" is a term used to describe a play when the batter takes a full swing but the ball only goes like it was bunted, right?

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seems like you need to pick up a jock at some point in time. Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan know more about baseball than 99.99% of baseball fans, now you might not be a fan of their announcing, but that is a different story.
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Old Sun Jun 07, 2009, 11:03am
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you realize "swinging bunt" is a term used to describe a play when the batter takes a full swing but the ball only goes like it was bunted, right?

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | SF@COL: Molina dribbles a squeeze bunt up the line - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

seems like you need to pick up a jock at some point in time. Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan know more about baseball than 99.99% of baseball fans, now you might not be a fan of their announcing, but that is a different story.
Yeah, I know what a swinging bunt is.....not possible by definition. Some yahoo using a term does not validate it. Just like the idiots that think the World Series really is a world series. And you probably believe that baseball is a true American sport invented by Abner Doubleday.

I just love it! You REALLY need to go find Alice, the Cheshire will point the way.
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Old Sun Jun 07, 2009, 01:56pm
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Irish and Steve,

I.m.h.o. it sounds to me as if you're talking on different wavelengthes...

Irish is absolutely right as far it's concerning the rulebook!

Steve might be right as he treates the "swinging Bunt"-term just as "The Hot Corner"-term. Both are not in the rulebook, but everybody (except me, who never heard about a swinging bunt before) know what it means.

The tricky part is when people, not knowing the rules, start reading the book and they get mixed up...
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Old Sun Jun 07, 2009, 02:21pm
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Irish and Steve,

I.m.h.o. it sounds to me as if you're talking on different wavelengthes...

Irish is absolutely right as far it's concerning the rulebook!

Steve might be right as he treates the "swinging Bunt"-term just as "The Hot Corner"-term. Both are not in the rulebook, but everybody (except me, who never heard about a swinging bunt before) know what it means.

The tricky part is when people, not knowing the rules, start reading the book and they get mixed up...
The only difference is that Hot Corner is not refered to in the rule book. Both "swing" and "bunt" are used in reference as to different manners in which the rules are applied in certain scenarios.

Since we are talking rules here . . . . .
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Old Tue Jun 09, 2009, 08:30pm
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Yeah, I know what a swinging bunt is.....not possible by definition. Some yahoo using a term does not validate it. Just like the idiots that think the World Series really is a world series. And you probably believe that baseball is a true American sport invented by Abner Doubleday.

I just love it! You REALLY need to go find Alice, the Cheshire will point the way.
If you know what the the OP meant when he said swinging bunt, then why do you have to be a prick and say its not possible....?

This is what I was talking about in the other thread, you come across as a condescending prick, when you say stuff like that.

just out of curiosity, are you intimating that you have proof that doubleday did not invent baseball?
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Old Wed Jun 10, 2009, 01:57pm
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just out of curiosity, are you intimating that you have proof that doubleday did not invent baseball?
Of course he didn't, Tim McCarver did.
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Old Wed Jun 10, 2009, 02:17pm
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...just out of curiosity, are you intimating that you have proof that doubleday did not invent baseball?
Just out of curiosity, are you intimating that you have proof that Doubleday did?
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Old Wed Jun 10, 2009, 03:06pm
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just out of curiosity, are you intimating that you have proof that doubleday did not invent baseball?
You mean besides the fact the game was brought from England and even Doubleday claimed little to no knowledge of it?
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Old Sun Jun 07, 2009, 02:15pm
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you realize "swinging bunt" is a term used to describe a play when the batter takes a full swing but the ball only goes like it was bunted, right?

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | SF@COL: Molina dribbles a squeeze bunt up the line - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

seems like you need to pick up a jock at some point in time. Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan know more about baseball than 99.99% of baseball fans, now you might not be a fan of their announcing, but that is a different story.
Yeah I've also heard Tim McCarver say "He foul tipped it into the dirt!"

The two you mention may know more about PLAYING ball than 99.99% of fans. Rules knowledge can be quite a different story.
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Old Sun Jun 07, 2009, 02:26pm
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you realize "swinging bunt" is a term used to describe a play when the batter takes a full swing but the ball only goes like it was bunted, right?
Sounds like about half of the hits I see in recreational slow-pitch games.
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