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Is Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner's slide the prettiest play in baseball?
ESPN ^ | 08/23/2022 | Jeff Passan

Posted on 08/24/2022 4:31:57 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL play in Major League Baseball exists because its practitioner embraced a long-held axiom: Form follows function.

(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: dodgers; slide; treaturner
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1 posted on 08/24/2022 4:31:57 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: TexasKamaAina

Very nice.


2 posted on 08/24/2022 4:33:25 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: TexasKamaAina

From my Alma Mater.


3 posted on 08/24/2022 4:35:05 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: TexasKamaAina

He’s one of the top 10 players in baseball ⚾️


4 posted on 08/24/2022 4:38:16 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: TexasKamaAina

The first four batters in the Dodgers lineup (Betts, Turner, Freeman, and Smith) is the best in baseball.


5 posted on 08/24/2022 4:40:50 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: TexasKamaAina

Wow, gorgeous and so effortless. The author points out how strongly dance and athletics work together and are alike. His slide really shows that.


6 posted on 08/24/2022 4:41:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Looks like a Fred Astaire move.


7 posted on 08/24/2022 4:41:31 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: TexasKamaAina

I am not even into baseball, but that was cool! looks like he was ice skating or something.


8 posted on 08/24/2022 4:43:41 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ClearCase_guy

That is true grace. And I saw all of Bo Jacksons famous plays live. (Running up the wall after a catch he made look easy and throwing out a home plate runner where no one bellied he made the throw, etc)


9 posted on 08/24/2022 4:44:48 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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10 posted on 08/24/2022 4:45:02 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: TexasKamaAina

Much better than Kinsler's

11 posted on 08/24/2022 4:45:24 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Steely Tom

Better than the Ty Cobb cleats-aimed-at-the-catcher slide.


12 posted on 08/24/2022 4:47:47 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Theoria
This makes me want to have corn-on-the-cob with butter and a bag of unsalted peanuts.

Am I wrong?

13 posted on 08/24/2022 4:48:20 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,903,096 users on Truth Social)
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To: gundog

His BA is over .300. When he was in the minor leagues, his BA was .369.

Ty Cobb’s lifetime BA was .366, which is incredible.


14 posted on 08/24/2022 4:51:22 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: SamAdams76

Minor league tickets around here are $6. Not bad.


15 posted on 08/24/2022 4:51:47 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: TexasKamaAina

The Washington Nationals are currently 42-83. It was a great time just a few years ago when Trea Turner, et al., were playing with the Nats and they won the World Series.


16 posted on 08/24/2022 4:54:27 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: TexasKamaAina

I did that in a bar once. 1973 if I recall.... But I digress...


17 posted on 08/24/2022 5:00:04 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: TexasKamaAina
Damn, I watched that home plate slide over and over and over and the only thing I can think of is that dude is sliding on ice..........

Who would have ever thought that with all the base stealing records in MLB, this guy and his sliding prowess would make headline news.....Just beautiful.

18 posted on 08/24/2022 5:01:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Trea has been over the last four years the best player in baseball


19 posted on 08/24/2022 5:06:42 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: TexasKamaAina

He hardly loses any momentum in the slide....goes full bore until the last moment and by the time he drops he’s still going very fast...


20 posted on 08/24/2022 5:08:32 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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