It kiss you on the strikes you can kiss me on the balls
several different bat mfgs now and types of wood used. Long pants several years ago but now trending back to traditional way.
Wood bats.
Everybody wears their pants the way they are comfortable.
Bats are still wood,droopy pants started about twenty years ago
They don’t actually play the game on the field like in the old days. Nowadays it’s all done with computer simulations. The players you see on your screen may appear to be real, but they are merely animated CGI creations.
Wood bats, variety of stain colors.
They are wood bats but Fox always adds an annoying enhanced “tink” sound whenever ball meets bat to their broadcasts
They suck at baseball as bad as they do at politics
All you need to know is the Cubs are going to smoke the Dodgers tonight.
Those are wood bats. They are just painted.
The pajama pants have been around for years. I prefer the old style stirrups and a few guys on each team still sport them.
99% or more of players wear two batting gloves. I believe in Curt Flood’s day some guys wore one batting glove like golfers and many wore no gloves at the plate.
Many other changes: many players wear body armor while batting and a lot of catchers where hockey goalie type masks.
A lot more emotions/show-boating on the field.
Yeah, some of the latest uniforms look like pajamas.
Most players are on drugs.
The bats are made from cheese.
There is one left: the Cubs always sit out the World Series.
and as a long time Dodger fan (I saw Koufax at the Coliseum) I kind of hope that tradition falls by the wayside.
You remember Cal Ripken then? Well he had a kid who could really play the game.
I agree with mostly everything previously posted, also, the barrels of the bats are thinner than in olden times, another factor in the difference you note.
Not sure if your reference was intentional, or not, but Curt Flood’s suit vs MLB, resulted in the end of the ‘reserve clause’, that broke the bond that teams enforced over players, to one team, causing free agency, hence the reason they don’t tend to stay with one team.
Hope you enjoy the game !
The way the bullpen is used is going to be a shock to you, they make a lot more pitching changes. The reason they do it is because it works. The more time through a line up the worse a pitcher normally does, from fatigue and batters becoming more familiar with the release point, movement and timing of pitcher. But it makes the game longer. Another shocking thing is going to be the number of strikeouts. A good two strike approach is generally rare and actually extinct on some clubs.
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