Originally published at: Long shot Akil Baddoo does this with his first MLB pitch, his parents go wild | Boing Boing
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Wonderful things!!!
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too bad there’s no crying in baseball because… excuse me for a moment
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As a lifelong Minnesotan it doesn’t surprise me for a moment that the Twins would find yet another way to screw themselves. It’s there MO.
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His slugging percentage is insane right now. Glad someone finally broke Barry Bonds’s record.
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Join the club. It still pisses me off that the Mets – prior to their magical 1969 season – actually had Paul Blair in their farm system and passed on drafting Reggie Jackson.
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The Tigers are likely going to be the worst team in the league, perhaps one of the worst in years. They could afford to keep an untested guy like Baddoo on their active roster like you have to do to keep a Rule 5 pick. The Twins have pennant and championship aspirations, and it would not have been smart to keep him on their 40-man.
Great for Baddoo, I love it when Rule 5 guys worth out, but the Twins did nothing wrong here.
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He added a grand slam in the ninth, so a pretty good debut.
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“I’m a baseball player! That’s what we do! We hit homeruns, we slap ass!”
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It ought to read “his first at bat” because “his first pitch” makes him sound like a pitcher. I was confused.
Or maybe “the first pitch of his first at bat”. Only the pitcher can have a pitch of the ball be “his pitch”.
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What’s with the clickbait title? I thought you were better than that, Boingboing!
Commentator, “It’s possible, and he could do it.” 
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Well done, Badass Baddoo!
The twins had also blown off the excellent utility man Niko Goodrum, and sent him to the minors in Nov 2017. He elected free agency, and we signed him later the same month. He was our 2018 Rookie of the Year!
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