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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Mar 14, 2018 1:01:02 GMT -5
So MLB is having a "Foodfest" thing in NYC next month and I'm just curious if anyone has had any of the stuff they're serving: If I hadn't completely booked my schedule for a lot of April, I would so go there.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Mar 14, 2018 2:58:49 GMT -5
I’d say the Houston Astros’ Chicken Waffle Cone sounds the most appealing to me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 16:42:09 GMT -5
Minor League Baseball will have a man on second base during extra innings this season.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 16:48:29 GMT -5
So MLB is having a "Foodfest" thing in NYC next month and I'm just curious if anyone has had any of the stuff they're serving: People go to Dodgers games for Dodger Dogs, not corn slathered in mayo & gross Cheetos. I wish we could say we have a specialty at Indians games (Indianapolis, not Cleveland), but it's mainly a spicy burger with a cornichon speared through it. You'd think pork tenderloin would be the big deal.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Mar 14, 2018 19:10:25 GMT -5
Minor League Baseball will have a man on second base during extra innings this season. That is the stupidest horseshit I have ever read. #FireManfred
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Post by fw91 on Mar 14, 2018 19:14:50 GMT -5
The Mets serving a Pastrami on Rye in Midtown Manhattan is the most Mets thing possible And there's some AMAZING food at Citi Field
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Post by BRV on Mar 14, 2018 20:24:07 GMT -5
Minor League Baseball will have a man on second base during extra innings this season. It's an impossibly stupid idea that's being rightfully excoriated in baseball circles. The problem with the length of baseball games isn't that some extra inning games tend to run long, it's that most nine-inning games tend to run long. Baseball shouldn't be looking at solving innings 10 and beyond as much as they should be fixing what's wrong between innings 1 and 9. That's when the pace of a game becomes an issue and that's when games become interminable. Enforce a pitch clock, reduce the amount of mound visits, do whatever needs to be done, but starting with extra innings is like trying to make "The Room" a better movie by saying, "OK, we'll change the ending a bit" and thinking the problem's solved. Baseball needs to get the average nine-inning game down to two hours and 30 minutes before they start trotting out these ridiculous video game proposals. Once they get a regulation game resolved, then maybe they can look into extra inning games, which amount for, what, one of every 25 games?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 20:29:12 GMT -5
Whenever I go to an Indians game, there is a pitch clock of 40 seconds. They need to whittle that to 30.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Mar 15, 2018 14:30:34 GMT -5
Minor League Baseball will have a man on second base during extra innings this season. That is the stupidest horseshit I have ever read. #FireManfred Meh, I like it It adds excitement during the baseball classic extra inning games and could do the same in the major leagues Obviously this doesn't solve the pace of play problems but I like it
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Mar 15, 2018 22:43:47 GMT -5
That is the stupidest horseshit I have ever read. #FireManfred Meh, I like it It adds excitement during the baseball classic extra inning games and could do the same in the major leagues Obviously this doesn't solve the pace of play problems but I like it The excitement of extra innings is in the game itself, (especially come playoff time.) It doesn't need a dumb video game stipulation to speed the process of ending faster. Let them play it out the way it's supposed to be played. The way it's been played for over a century. This would ruin should be classics like SF/Was 18 innings, Brandon Belt homering to win. It would ruin (I'll sound like a grouchy old man) the INTEGRITY OF THE GAME. Is a win really a win when you just get a free runner for no reason? Give me a fxxxing break.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Mar 15, 2018 22:53:43 GMT -5
Meh, I like it It adds excitement during the baseball classic extra inning games and could do the same in the major leagues Obviously this doesn't solve the pace of play problems but I like it The excitement of extra innings is in the game itself, (especially come playoff time.) It doesn't need a dumb video game stipulation to speed the process of ending faster. Let them play it out the way it's supposed to be played. The way it's been played for over a century. This would ruin should be classics like SF/Was 18 innings, Brandon Belt homering to win. It would ruin (I'll sound like a grouchy old man) the INTEGRITY OF THE GAME. Is a win really a win when you just get a free runner for no reason? Give me a fxxxing break. And that's the thing for me. Some traditions need to be broken/changed or Baseball will be stuck in a distant 3rd place as far as American sports go. As I said before, they did this during the Baseball Classic and I loved it because their was an air of this game could end right now and it adds excitement to a game in which is already a struggle to sit through 9 innings for causal fans Baseball has a handful of games that go past 15 innings a season and as far as teams go it f**s them over for a week or more. While that is part of the strategy of the game to have players who will be fatigued and how you work your way around it, you can still have that same strategy in place with these runners on base. Baseball has long lost its purity and these extra inning games go so damn long because no one in Baseball knows how to move runners over and everyone swings for a homerun. It has its own excitement as a fan who watches all the game and you analyze the game but you have to think about broadening your approach and getting other viewers. People preached integrity of the game and baseball is still moving forward after the collisions from home plate was taken out (Known because your boy "The Buster Posey Rule") as well as no "neighborhood plays" anymore, instant replay, etc... To me this is just another evolution and moving forward of the game
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Mar 15, 2018 23:51:59 GMT -5
The excitement of extra innings is in the game itself, (especially come playoff time.) It doesn't need a dumb video game stipulation to speed the process of ending faster. Let them play it out the way it's supposed to be played. The way it's been played for over a century. This would ruin should be classics like SF/Was 18 innings, Brandon Belt homering to win. It would ruin (I'll sound like a grouchy old man) the INTEGRITY OF THE GAME. Is a win really a win when you just get a free runner for no reason? Give me a fxxxing break. And that's the thing for me. Some traditions need to be broken/changed or Baseball will be stuck in a distant 3rd place as far as American sports go. As I said before, they did this during the Baseball Classic and I loved it because their was an air of this game could end right now and it adds excitement to a game in which is already a struggle to sit through 9 innings for causal fans Baseball has a handful of games that go past 15 innings a season and as far as teams go it f**s them over for a week or more. While that is part of the strategy of the game to have players who will be fatigued and how you work your way around it, you can still have that same strategy in place with these runners on base. Baseball has long lost its purity and these extra inning games go so damn long because no one in Baseball knows how to move runners over and everyone swings for a homerun. It has its own excitement as a fan who watches all the game and you analyze the game but you have to think about broadening your approach and getting other viewers. People preached integrity of the game and baseball is still moving forward after the collisions from home plate was taken out (Known because your boy "The Buster Posey Rule") as well as no "neighborhood plays" anymore, instant replay, etc... To me this is just another evolution and moving forward of the game This is more than just an evolution. No neighborhood / replay / Buster Posey Rule aren't as drastic and quite frankly asinine as just randomly adding a runner in scoring position just to end a game faster. If we're just adding shit, let's also make the defense play a man down. Let's just get rid of batting orders in extras, the manager gets to decide who hits every inning. If the game goes longer that 1 extra inning, it's a coin flip!
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Mar 16, 2018 1:10:46 GMT -5
And that's the thing for me. Some traditions need to be broken/changed or Baseball will be stuck in a distant 3rd place as far as American sports go. As I said before, they did this during the Baseball Classic and I loved it because their was an air of this game could end right now and it adds excitement to a game in which is already a struggle to sit through 9 innings for causal fans Baseball has a handful of games that go past 15 innings a season and as far as teams go it f**s them over for a week or more. While that is part of the strategy of the game to have players who will be fatigued and how you work your way around it, you can still have that same strategy in place with these runners on base. Baseball has long lost its purity and these extra inning games go so damn long because no one in Baseball knows how to move runners over and everyone swings for a homerun. It has its own excitement as a fan who watches all the game and you analyze the game but you have to think about broadening your approach and getting other viewers. People preached integrity of the game and baseball is still moving forward after the collisions from home plate was taken out (Known because your boy "The Buster Posey Rule") as well as no "neighborhood plays" anymore, instant replay, etc... To me this is just another evolution and moving forward of the game This is more than just an evolution. No neighborhood / replay / Buster Posey Rule aren't as drastic and quite frankly asinine as just randomly adding a runner in scoring position just to end a game faster. If we're just adding shit, let's also make the defense play a man down. Let's just get rid of batting orders in extras, the manager gets to decide who hits every inning. If the game goes longer that 1 extra inning, it's a coin flip! That's being dramatic and you're not giving it a fair shake. Sure putting the runners on place isn't as drastic as those rules mentioned but those changed the game forever and they were staples of the games. One of the most exciting parts of the game is when you get a relay and the catcher has the ball and the batter has to do everything he can to knock the ball loose. Because Buster broke his leg, that's all gone. Replay changed the game forever. Ask Armando Galarraga if he would have loved to have had replay available so his perfect game would not have gotten taken away from him. No longer is the game up to the umps discretion and only his judgment on calls. No more neighborhood play forces the players to now actually touch the bag and no more of the he was close enough for it to be considered an out. Once again something else that was the "norm" and part of the "spirit" of baseball but you are now enforcing the rules. They aren't eliminating extra inning games. They are just speeding them up because as I stated before the fundamentals of the game is fully gone and you know come extra innings all players are trying to do is knock it out the park instead of getting on base. Putting a man on adds strategy to how you want to approach it while still making the game exciting in which you can still have your classic 18 inning games but now it's in a different format. This is a pretty "harmless" tinkering of the rules and the only justification to not changing it is because of "tradition" but at the end of the day baseball has been played over 100 years and the game needs a tune up. Now in saying that, in regards to pace of play baseball needs to start enforcing its rules with pitch clocks and all that shit. There's much bigger fixes to be made than adding a man on base for extra innings but it's not a bad start to trying to do something.
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Post by Kevin Dunn on Mar 16, 2018 9:26:54 GMT -5
Just have game’s end in a tie.
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Post by andrew8798 on Mar 16, 2018 16:20:14 GMT -5
Brian McTaggart of MLB.com reports that the Astros are closing in on a five-year $150 million extension with Jose Altuve.
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Post by andrew8798 on Mar 16, 2018 21:26:24 GMT -5
The Season starts on a Thursday this year?
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Mar 16, 2018 21:57:24 GMT -5
The Season starts on a Thursday this year? Correct. Thursday, March 29th
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 10:07:48 GMT -5
Brian McTaggart of MLB.com reports that the Astros are closing in on a five-year $150 million extension with Jose Altuve. Altuve getting PAID!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2018 16:21:09 GMT -5
Twins SS Jorge Polanco has been suspended 80 games for testing positive for Stanozolol.
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