Navafan29

Cleveland's playoff push is cool and all, but they really need to get more fans in the stands. They are in a playoff race, yet almost all of the seats are empty at home.

I was at that game. It was extremely loud when Nava hit that HR. The game was a lot closer than it looked on TV. Also, the Nationals just won the game 6-5 in the bottom of the 9th. They did get a little lucky with the error and stuff, but it was still a great comeback. They are 4.5 games back of the NL wild card now. Man.

Nationals are down by 2 in the bottom of the 9th with the bases loaded and no outs against Craig Kimbrel.

Nationals are down by a run and will need a 9th inning run to tie it on this tragic day for their city.

Time will tell how good Selig's decision will be. Time will tell.

I'm not talking completely about me in particular, but I'm predicting an effect that expanded replay will have on the feeling of the game and thus the size of the MLB fanbase over time. I doubt it's going to make the game more popular. Replay will remove tons of controversy from the sport, which could spark a permenant mundane era. Sorry I can't prove this, but you can't always talk about logic and proof when looking at how the game feels. That's like saying humans are nothing more than an arrangement of atoms, or something like that. And for your information, a lot of people have the same opinion as me. I'm not just some nutcase.

Because without drama/controversy, the sport will seem like the same thing over and over through the years, and fans could lose interest. We'll just have to wait and see how the popularity of the sport changes over the years after the replay decision.

Baseball has a special feel to it that's different than any other sport. It makes sense for everything to be real as possible, but at the end of the day, you watch the game to be entertained. I don't know why you guys watch baseball, but that's why I do. Making the game more fair obviously makes sense to do, and it makes sense to enjoy a 100.0% fair game, but it's not worth it if it sucks the life out of the game and causes a drop in its popularity over the years. We might end up gaining a little and losing a lot. There's a chance that the system Selig and friends come up with will add enough strategy (deciding when to use challenges) to make up for the loss of depth, but it's risky because once you go through with this thing, there's no going back. I guess I'll have to wait and see how they actually decide to expand replay before I complain about it any more though.

My well-written post about the reasoning behind wanting baseball to be entertaining and have strategy is dumb? Maybe it just seems dumb because it doesn't agree with you. I'm actually putting reason behind not wanting expanded replay instead of just saying it's all about the human element etc like most opposers have been saying. I'm somewhat okay with a more minimal challenge system as I said in my post, but anything over 2 challenges per game is going to waste an opportunity to add strategy to the game. Remember that I'm only talking replay in the regular season, not the playoffs.

The current proposed expanded replay system is 1 challenge throughout the first 6 innings and 2 challenges from the 7th inning on. However, if you get a challenge right, you don't use up your challenge. This means that managers will get a minimum of 3 challenges a game in a sport where we see at most 2 game-changing missed calls in a game. If challenges got used up when used successfully, then we'd have strategy in deciding when the most efficient time to use challenges is. More strategy makes the sport more entertaining. The bottom line is that baseball is for entertainment, so whatever option is more fun for the fans is the one you should go with. With expanded replay, we won't have manager arguments anymore because they'll just challenge instead of arguing (unless they used up all their challenges, but this won't happen because there's too many challenges). Manager arguments are entertaining, so it's bad for the sport to get rid of them. The proposed replay system has more challenges in the end of the game than the beginning, implying that the end of the game has more game-changing moments than the beginning. This just isn't true. They should make it 1 challenge through the first 5 and 1 challenge onward, and remove the ability to retain challenges when successful. Or, just make it 1 challenge for the entire game. Most games have between 0 to 1 blown calls that affect who wins, so even one challenge per game would be more than enough. Baseball has a massive 162 game season, so even without expanded replay it's still the fairest sport in the world for deciding who rightfully makes the playoffs. I don't think we should remove a big chunk of baseball's character (manager arguments and controversy) and make the game more boring just to make the standings slightly more fair. Discussing how expanded replay should work in the playoffs is a totally different topic. I don't have a proven-correct opinion about this, but my point is that it's far from a no-brainer to accept the proposed replay system.

1. Expanded replay will suck because the overly high amount of challenges makes it so you don't have to use challenges wisely, which wastes an opportunity to add more strategy to the game. Without adding more strategy, there isn't enough you get out of expanded replay to make up for the loss of entertaining manager and player arguments. 2. Sox could lose the first round of the playoffs IF they peak too early. I wouldn't make a serious prediction that they would lose. Also, is it just me or does Allen Webster look really sad all the time?

I still pick the Sox to win the World Series at this point in time.

If we stay this hot until the end of the season, we're going to be due to lose 3 games in a row by about the time the ALDS starts.

But the strike zone isn't so short that it's a square like society wants you to believe...

Give Joe G manager of the year, but only if his team makes the playoffs.

Why is Jacoby Ellsbury pitching for the Yankees?

If umps start tossing/warning people for everything, that sensitivity is going to combine with expanded replay to remove a lot of the character/outbursts from baseball.

Good job by Carp to not swing at that ball and get hit.

Nava is as good a hitter as Pedroia this year. Look at the numbers. "Ground-rule double" needs a cooler name.

Let's lose the first 3 games of the ALDS.

Yeah! Let's help the Yankees make the playoffs with a win tonight! Number of teams that want the Sox to win this game: 5 Number of teams that want the Rays to win: 1

Rays thought they only had to face a bench guy who doesn't even play that much. 4 seconds later... http://share.pho.to/3jbQY/eg/original

or call the smiley :Napoli: The clean shavens (Drew, Nava, and Middlebrooks) must grow playoff beards.

We haven't had any large winning streaks all year, but we've been very consistent with our winning percentage.

Am I the only one that always switches to MLB Tonight after the game?