Northern Star

Oh, and as well as ending the ASG WS home field advantage ********, can we drop the every team must have a player and have the starting lineups play most of the game? The union would never go for this, but dropping the DH would speed up AL games a bit...

Someone (was it here?) said that in a 3 and half hour game, there's 18 minutes of actual action. I think it would be difficult to cut down game times without severely changing the game. Years ago some solutions were floated, including making it 2 strikes instead of 3 which would be awful. I like that there's no game clock, I like that each game has its own rhythm. But do I want to spend almost 4 hours watching one? Do I want to start watching a playoff game on the East Coast at 8pm knowing it will go beyond midnight and I have work the next day? Getting youngsters involved and interested is paramount. They NEED to make the Saturday WS game an afternoon one. It will not kill them. Just take a step back, stop thinking of money and think of growing the game. How do you get more kids playing it, versus basketball or football? (I guess football is dwindling now because of head injuries). How do you get black kids to take up baseball when the number of black players has been dwindling for years? Since a significant number of people are giving up cable, they should be offering mlb tv without blackouts. Even if you have to pay more and use the cable channel's website if you live in market, I would do that. But I have given up on mlb tv for another reason, which is the technical drawbacks of DSL that make the picture freeze so often. A huge number of people complained about this. That touches on another unrelated issue, the poor quality of the U.S.'s broadband service compared to other countries.

I know his first order of business is to make ever-increasing piles of money, but I really hope it's not his only one. I really hope he'll work at some things to improve the game.

I really don't want this win to mask the fact that Webster flat out sucks.

Four hits and three walks, I've seen enough of this f***.

aaaaand..... no.

Matt Harvey is an idiot, trying to rush back from TJ to pitch for a team that won't make the playoffs. Candidate for further arm trouble.

To my mind 30 HRs is useless if your OBP and average are too low.

Oh My God, AOJ got a f***ing hit! Call the President! Ticker tape parade when they come back to Boston! Completely forgot the game was early today.

I'm gonna miss Koji.

(sarcasm)

Woah... WEEI's broadcast just led in with In Flames. Awesome.

Every day that goes by, I am more convinced that WMB is not a major league ballplayer.

Would be different if AOJ was playing. 0-5.

f*** off Middlebrooks.

2 walks, 2 runs, 30 pitches and counting. Good times.

Warm up the pen.

I have already completely tuned out and all I know is Cincinnati just scored a run.

They should put him on the DL - his disability is his bat.

Where AOJ at? Release the beast.

The only problem with it is only 3 of them hitting over .250.

HEROES Brock Holt CF .295 Dustin Pedroia 2B .282 David Ortiz1B .245 Yoenis Céspedes LF .256 Daniel Nava RF .248 Xander Bogaerts SS .230 Christian Vázquez C .227 Will Middlebrooks 3B .188 Joe Kelly P VILLIANS Billy Hamilton CF .268 Jay Bruce RF .223 Todd Frazier 3B .281 Devin Mesoraco C .293 Brayan Peña 1B .277 Chris Heisey LF .226 Ramón Santiago 2B .236 Zack Cozart SS .224 Mat Latos P

We need to replace some of our hitters.

Vazquez would certainly not be a bad backup at all.

I was trying to find where AOJ's streak falls in the history of futility but it isn't quite clear.