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November 14, 2012

Pebble Hunting

The 10 Best Slides: A Slide Show

These are the 10 best slides of the 2012 season. There are 19 GIFs, and some of the best slides are actually the worst slides. I wish you luck!

10. Best Slide Into First Base, by Carlos Gomez

Gomez is just such a good slider, and his takeout slides are beautiful things, too. Almost nobody gets to first base faster than Gomez—admire the early concessions by the pitcher and second baseman, who know they have no shot of beating Gomez to first—and to watch him veer as he does without slowing, losing his footing, or falling out of reach of the bag sends a jolt of strain down my left leg. Replays weren't totally clear but suggest Gomez really did avoid the tag. Here's how close it was:

9. Best Pitcher Slide, by Gio Gonzalez

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apbadogs

I don't know about anyone else but these gif heavy articles make me nauseous...really hard to look at. ESC, here I come.

Nov 14, 2012 05:23 AM

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riverz

SAM MILLER Y'ALL. MASTER GIF'R!

Nov 14, 2012 06:43 AM

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fatted

Just like to say that this was awesome. Thankfully my browser was able to handle all the gifness.

Nov 14, 2012 08:08 AM

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ChinMusic

These are great. Good job, Sam - thoroughly enjoyable.

Nov 14, 2012 08:16 AM

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draysbay

Good list, Sam, but this was the best slide of the year: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=20591257&c_id=mlb

Nov 14, 2012 08:32 AM

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Ben Lindbergh

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That was on there! Give Sam some credit.

Nov 14, 2012 08:33 AM

dianagram

My apologies ...

Nov 14, 2012 20:13 PM

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Nathan Aderhold

Loads of fun, once again. You had me at "stupid piece-of-crap dishwashers".

Does MLB.com have some sort of "awesome slides" search function I'm unaware of? How did you track all of these down?

Nov 14, 2012 08:56 AM

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timber

Love the Shoppach "slide." I can't believe I didn't see it at the time.

Nov 14, 2012 09:16 AM

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dianagram

Ichiro ... post-season

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121008&content_id=39620038&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

Nov 14, 2012 10:14 AM

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Ian Miller

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Phenomenal.

Nov 14, 2012 10:16 AM

iorg34

So awesome.

Nov 14, 2012 13:14 PM

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Cubbie Wan Kenobi

Tony "freakin" Campana. If the guy ever started hitting...

Nov 14, 2012 17:00 PM

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Mike Fast

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Carlos Corporan sees Chris Getz's face-plant slide and raises with his slide into second base in the 8th inning on October 3rd.

Nov 15, 2012 19:29 PM

jeffcaudle

The Chris Getz slide was the funniest thing I've seen since the picture of Jeff Francoeur looking like a hungry rat... http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=16404

Nov 18, 2012 18:43 PM

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