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Yesterday , 08:56 AM

#9776

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,708

Force and sign are the most straightforward to me.

It's the fastest pitch, and there's a sign for it (single finger).

As for the other possibilities:

Hit - I guess not impossible, but if it's force/hit, why bring baseball into this? If it's sign/hit, why use the fastest pitch and not changeup?

Brush - I guess a fastball could be used as a "brushback" pitch (a pitch thrown close to the body to make the batter not stand so close to the plate), but that seems really weak compared to the other stuff.

None of the other 6 even remotely make sense.

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Yesterday , 03:48 PM

#9777

AmazingErvin

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Brush for curveball sorta like it mighta brushed by, you don't fully hit it

I am absolutely not on hit/force. And I am 100% on sign. Only debate to me is if the 2nd word is force or hit.

Many of the other pitches imo could be confused with something else, like changeup we may not have immediately though to baseball/sign

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Yesterday , 04:09 PM

#9778

eyebooger

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It's going to take me a lot of convincing that it's not force/sign.

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Yesterday , 04:28 PM

#9779

AmazingErvin

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My first thought was wouldn't the clue for force + sign just be police? Or astrological or something like that?

The baseball wavelength just makes me think of hit much more than force, and it's possible Neil didn't think the other pitches would be needed/had other downsides

All of this said, it is not clear to me at all and the arguments for force are very valid

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Yesterday , 04:32 PM

#9780

AmazingErvin

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I imagine we can guess sign right, none of us are getting off sign?

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Yesterday , 05:26 PM

#9781

eyebooger

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Originally Posted by AmazingErvin

I don't think police is strong at all for sign, plus police brings governor into the mix.

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I imagine we can guess sign right, none of us are getting off sign?

I'll let D1iab make that call. I'm fine with it.

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Yesterday , 05:44 PM

#9782

AmazingErvin

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Maybe not police but cosmic or universal seems like it would hit sign + force

Idk I just think we'd get a "bigger" word for force.

Fastball makes me think just hit a fastball. They get hit, baseball is all about getting hits. And in case we aren't familiar it should be obvious enough for us to figure out sign

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Yesterday , 06:53 PM

#9783

D1iabol1cal

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sign

I'm really torn on the last one. In a vacuum, I think hit is stronger than force, but when there are other clues in the same domain he could've used that would avoid this confusion, it makes me wonder why he would choose that one. But it could also be like pregnant from last round and he just didn't think about it that much.

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Yesterday , 06:58 PM

#9784

AmazingErvin

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Originally Posted by D1iabol1cal

But it could also be like pregnant from last round and he just didn't think about it that much.

I was thinking something like this, where he thought "ok they'll think of the 2 words immediately first, they're the best ones" and not so much that we'll find reasons to look for other words or have a vast knowledge of baseball pitches to consider from

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Yesterday , 07:13 PM

#9785

D1iabol1cal

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You don't need a vast knowledge of baseball to know what a curveball is lol. There's not even any real blockers for "baseball" either afaict, which is really the only reason I'm considering guessing force over hit here.

I mean, I think force is stronger than sign as well...it's just that this clue would be terrible for a hit/force combo.