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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 1, 2018 11:43:36 GMT -5
The younger fans just don't care It might also have something to do with every game starting at 815 at night and getting over sometime around midnight. Major League Baseball can't bitch about trying to get to a younger crowd and then do absolutely nothing to rectify the situation.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Nov 1, 2018 12:21:35 GMT -5
The Giants interviewed Kim Ng for their GM/President of Baseball Ops job.
There is only one word for a time like this.
HISTORIC. Thank you for making this possible, Stephanie McMahon.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Nov 1, 2018 13:12:50 GMT -5
The younger fans just don't care It might also have something to do with every game starting at 815 at night and getting over sometime around midnight. Major League Baseball can't bitch about trying to get to a younger crowd and then do absolutely nothing to rectify the situation. Yea, for as much as they talk about pace of play during the regular season. it went out the door in the playoffs
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Nov 1, 2018 13:31:29 GMT -5
The best World Series are between a Goliath and a David. Two Goliaths just really don't work for sports fans. I don't agree with that assessment. That hasn't been the case at all for the NBA with Cavs/Warriors constantly setting new records, and the Bama/Georgia national title game broke a lot of ratings records. This series just wasn't really intriguing. And baseball is losing momentum, but I think that is less relevant here. It's just really hard for casual fans to root for either team, it was a rather one-sided series, Sox were kinda a wire-to-wire best team. I believe the last Cavs/Warriors series was down in the ratings.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Nov 2, 2018 10:36:02 GMT -5
We creating a new MLB thread for the offseason or no?
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Post by arrogantmodel on Nov 4, 2018 4:16:47 GMT -5
Reds minor leaguer, Jairo Capellan, was killed in a car crash in the Dominican Republic. Others are injured.
What is up with the DR, that so many people die in car crashes down there? Wasn't there two players killed on the same day in different accidents down there a while back?
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Post by RI Richmark on Nov 4, 2018 18:01:11 GMT -5
Reds minor leaguer, Jairo Capellan, was killed in a car crash in the Dominican Republic. Others are injured. What is up with the DR, that so many people die in car crashes down there? Wasn't there two players killed on the same day in different accidents down there a while back? HBO's Real Sports did a segment on this last year. Basically the traffic laws are barely enforced. The cops go home at 8pm. Also there's a lot more drinking. There are even liquor stores with freaking drive thru's.
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Post by fw91 on Nov 4, 2018 19:33:46 GMT -5
So Bryce Harper bought an apartment in Queens (NYC). don't know why as I don't see him signing with either team.
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Post by BRV on Nov 5, 2018 14:57:45 GMT -5
So, some reasonable pessimism from a Red Sox fan in terms of what could happen next year. Their regular season win total won't be 108 next year. It pretty much has to go down, likely by 10 or more. That's not to say they won't be good, they could still very well contend again next season. But I won't hold my breath for a repeat, because nobody repeats in baseball anymore. So I'm hoping that we win the division again, or otherwise last longer in the postseason than the Yankees, or even eliminate them again. That would be enough to call next season a rousing success. I don't expect the Red Sox to win 119 games again in 2019, but I'm also not expecting the kind of regression we saw from the 2014 edition of the Boston Red Sox following the 2013 championship team. Barring anything unforeseen, the Red Sox should be defending their crown come next October. If you look around their 25-man roster, there aren't many who played above and beyond what is expected of them. Their top five players, according to WAR, were Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez, Andrew Benintendi, Xander Bogaerts, and Jackie Bradley Jr. That's their core young talent that is either in their prime or just about to reach their peak years. Among their pitching staff, you could argue they had a down regular season, with Chris Sale missing a chunk of the second half and David Price, Rick Porcello, and Eduardo Rodriguez all finishing with ERAs above 3.50. They'll need to address their bullpen in the off-season, but it's a deep free agent class of relief pitchers, so Boston could find a few relievers this winter. Meanwhile, among free agents, the Red Sox will have to consider re-signing Craig Kimbrel, Nathan Eovaldi, Joe Kelly, World Series MVP Steve Pearce, Ian Kinsler, Drew Pomeranz, Carson Smith, and Brandon Phillips. Kimbrel is hitting the market as the best closer in free agency, so he'll fetch a pretty penny and the Red Sox have already extended a $17.9 million qualifying offer his way. Eovaldi and Pearce probably played their way out of Boston via their performances in the postseason, as there are likely to be teams that will offer them more money than Boston is willing to pay - Eovaldi is probably viewed as a third starter somewhere and Pearce could land himself an everyday first baseman gig. Kelly struggled in the regular season, which should keep his price tag down, but he redeemed himself in the World Series and could stick as the set-up man that Boston has hoped he'd become since he was acquired in 2014. Kinsler, Pomeranz, Smith, and Phillips will all find somewhere else to play or retire. The younger fans just don't care It might also have something to do with every game starting at 815 at night and getting over sometime around midnight. Major League Baseball can't bitch about trying to get to a younger crowd and then do absolutely nothing to rectify the situation. It's not the 8:15 start times that drive me nuts, it's the four-hour-long games that end after midnight. I can live with an 8:15 start time if a nine-inning game ends before 11:30. Baseball needs to desperately address pace of play, because there's no reason for a standard nine-inning game to last longer than four hours. The American League Championship Series was a specific offender this year, with every game lasting longer than three-and-a-half hours and Game 4 running 4 hours and 33 minutes. That's 273 minutes to play nine innings and that's inexcusable, especially when you recall that the game started at 8:40 Eastern. Win or lose, regardless of the final score, you're drained at the end of a game that long.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 5, 2018 15:14:12 GMT -5
So, some reasonable pessimism from a Red Sox fan in terms of what could happen next year. Their regular season win total won't be 108 next year. It pretty much has to go down, likely by 10 or more. That's not to say they won't be good, they could still very well contend again next season. But I won't hold my breath for a repeat, because nobody repeats in baseball anymore. So I'm hoping that we win the division again, or otherwise last longer in the postseason than the Yankees, or even eliminate them again. That would be enough to call next season a rousing success. I don't expect the Red Sox to win 119 games again in 2019, but I'm also not expecting the kind of regression we saw from the 2014 edition of the Boston Red Sox following the 2013 championship team. Barring anything unforeseen, the Red Sox should be defending their crown come next October. If you look around their 25-man roster, there aren't many who played above and beyond what is expected of them. Their top five players, according to WAR, were Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez, Andrew Benintendi, Xander Bogaerts, and Jackie Bradley Jr. That's their core young talent that is either in their prime or just about to reach their peak years. Among their pitching staff, you could argue they had a down regular season, with Chris Sale missing a chunk of the second half and David Price, Rick Porcello, and Eduardo Rodriguez all finishing with ERAs above 3.50. They'll need to address their bullpen in the off-season, but it's a deep free agent class of relief pitchers, so Boston could find a few relievers this winter. Meanwhile, among free agents, the Red Sox will have to consider re-signing Craig Kimbrel, Nathan Eovaldi, Joe Kelly, World Series MVP Steve Pearce, Ian Kinsler, Drew Pomeranz, Carson Smith, and Brandon Phillips. Kimbrel is hitting the market as the best closer in free agency, so he'll fetch a pretty penny and the Red Sox have already extended a $17.9 million qualifying offer his way. Eovaldi and Pearce probably played their way out of Boston via their performances in the postseason, as there are likely to be teams that will offer them more money than Boston is willing to pay - Eovaldi is probably viewed as a third starter somewhere and Pearce could land himself an everyday first baseman gig. Kelly struggled in the regular season, which should keep his price tag down, but he redeemed himself in the World Series and could stick as the set-up man that Boston has hoped he'd become since he was acquired in 2014. Kinsler, Pomeranz, Smith, and Phillips will all find somewhere else to play or retire. It might also have something to do with every game starting at 815 at night and getting over sometime around midnight. Major League Baseball can't bitch about trying to get to a younger crowd and then do absolutely nothing to rectify the situation. It's not the 8:15 start times that drive me nuts, it's the four-hour-long games that end after midnight. I can live with an 8:15 start time if a nine-inning game ends before 11:30. Baseball needs to desperately address pace of play, because there's no reason for a standard nine-inning game to last longer than four hours. The American League Championship Series was a specific offender this year, with every game lasting longer than three-and-a-half hours and Game 4 running 4 hours and 33 minutes. That's 273 minutes to play nine innings and that's inexcusable, especially when you recall that the game started at 8:40 Eastern. Win or lose, regardless of the final score, you're drained at the end of a game that long. That's my point though, the games are going to be long it seems, no matter what steps they try to take. We know an 8:15 game isnt ending before 11:45-Midnight. As long as this is the case, starting games that late is stupid and will rob MLB of the younger fanbase it craves
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2018 18:44:33 GMT -5
Yankees are finalizing bringing back CC Sabathia for 1 year at $8m.
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