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Everything posted by notin
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Also no one makes musicals any more. Nothing drags out a movie more than having a dozen different times when characters belt out a song in a situation where they could just answer a question with a single sentence…
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Why go back that far? Get Mark Buehrle up there against RA Dickey and that game is maybe 90 minutes long…
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MLB has not expanded since 1977 without the owners losing a collusion lawsuit. I hope they don't decide to dilute the talent base even further...
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And the only reason they ever had them in the first place was due to the parks they played in. They did cling to the "this is how we always did it" mentality for far too long, probably because not everyone had lights in 1987. It's intersting to note than the last WS day game was in 1987, and the Cubs got good and added lights in 1988 (specifically on 8-8-88) to accomodate night playoff games...
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At least MLB has a habit of weighing the length of the post-season round against the importance of the series, so the addition of two more wild card teams (playing one game each) shouldn't push the season too deep into November...
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Day games in the World Series were only a tradition due to the limitations of the ballparks, none of which had lights until 1935. And all of which did not have lights until 1988. Nothing ever really forced MLB into playing Sunday doubleheaders. They just did it. Granted, owners are not fans due to the "2 for 1" aspect of the ticket pricing...
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The NFL now sends 14 out of 32 teams, slightly less than half. The NHL sends 16 out of 32 teams, exactly half. And they let it go on for what, 3 years per post-season? The NBA sends 16 out of 30 teams, or more than half, thus guaranteeing some s***** sub-.500 team has earned a playoff birth. Also they refuse the schedule any two games simultaneously, and these playoffs also go on far, far too long. MLB sends 10 out of 30. That's plenty...
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I'm not trying to appeal to the "Waaah!! Games are too long and slow" crowd. Sunday double headers are a baseball tradition. They also allow for more flexible TV scheduling that can help the fans. If ESPN schedules a late-season Sunday night game with, say the Mets and the Braves, they want a game relevant to the playoff picture. But if both teams suck (and in some cases, if even one does), MLB has been known to re-schedule Sunday night games from afternoon games to get more playoff-relevant action. This is a major inconvenience to the paying fans, who now have to re-arrange their schedule. But if everyone is already playing Sunday night anyway, ESPN can just send to TV crew to whatever city they want...
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A $200K raise might just be pocket change to Max Scherzer, but the Jonathan Arauz's of the world will certainly appreciate it...
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Some of the bigger names left might just take one year pillow deals. I'm looking at you, Kris Bryant, Trevor Story and Anthony Rizzo. I do think someone will go all in on Correa and Freeman, but they might be the only two to get a deal they like in that short timeframe...
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1. Stop expanding the post-season. 2. DH every Sunday with 28 man rosters. But yes, no one wants to play/watch the WS in the snow...
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That’s all conjecture…
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It’s simply just an equivalent salary…
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1. Puffery? 2. They are essentially saying he is a fringe major leaguer. 3. Puffery?
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I can see a mandate of “cut payroll” or “reset the tax limit”. But I doubt Price was singled out. Think if Bloom had dealt Eovaldi, he’d still be told to unload Price?
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The minors are loaded with guys who throw 99mph nowhere near the strike zone…
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At the time, he was not very amenable…
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A lot of teams routinely struggle to sell tickets after June. Maybe these losses are somewhat important to them…
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Yes, keeping Betts during a season in which Ryan Weber was the #3 starter would have been a ridiculous waste…
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And if the Yankees and Sox (and a few others?) had some ownership-imposed spending freeze/limits until the new CBA was worked out, what do you think the remaining free agent class might look like by that time?
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I think the Dodgers just brought back Chris Taylor. The Mets did go on a spending spree for a while…
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He probably didn’t, especially since he didn’t know what penalties of any the new CBA would bring. It’s probably not a coincidence that most of the highest spending teams were relatively silent before the lockout…
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The cheaper rotation is probably because he Sox don’t want to overcommit before knowing the spending rules. And if that is the case, the lockout has probably helped the Sox…
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Right. The comment about people getting excited over “three for one” deal was meant strictly as complimentary. I don’t watch minor league games either, but all that was done was point out to the advantages of getting the prospects. Renfroe himself wasn’t all that useful in a trade and was only going to get pricier and probably worse. It’s a deal where the Sox probably did help themselves out short and long term…
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So you not only don’t care about the prospects, you look down on people who do…
