Posted on 08/20/2019 12:24:42 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
As a result, new stadiums are shrinking.
In a piece for USA Today, sports writer Gabe Lacques noted the falling attendance of several MLB teams.
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Studies have said that you can increase a pitcher’s workload 20-30 innings every year. But teams won’t even do that.
It’s also high school and colleges that abuse pitchers even before they make it to the Majors, so they have one or two great years, then it’s over.
Tom Glavine lamented the same thing on-air a few nights ago. It’s just a sign of the times when fans can see pitch speeds, and management thinks faster is better. There are exceptions like the Dodgers’ Ryu, who regularly throws 70 mph curves and 80 mph changeups with great location. Repetitive 93mph+ fastballs over and over don’t impress me.
Felipe Alou.
One of my favorites is when Lefty Gomez took a called third strike from Bob Feller, turned to the umpire and said, “Hey, Mac, didn’t that one sound a bit low?”
Wished I’d discovered Cricket when he was still in his prime.
And there was a website that showed much of the ICC Cricket World Cup. I confess I have little idea of the fielder position names at this stage, but thanks to baseball, I do get outs and how they’re made. The ICC must have been a limited overs game because they kept saying there were only so many balls left.
.…...I haven’t watched a game from beginning to end since the early nineties sometime. Mickey Mantle was paid 90,000 dollars in 1962 and was the highest paid player in professional baseball.
Cut back to something equivalent to Mantle’s salary in 62 and I will come and watch some “good ole boys” play. Obscenely paid athletes I’m just not interested in.
I pretty much gave up on baseball when they stopped making pitchers have to bat.
“The Cleveland Indians are also expected to reduce the size of their existing park. And the Oakland A’s may even have a stadium as small as 34,000 seats soon.”
There are often more people at Texas HIGH SCHOOL football games than 34,000.
Somewhere in the mid 80s I quit caring about sports.
I will attend a Rockies game if my frau, a baseball fan, wants to go. Uncomfortable being unarmed. Do not care about NFL. Rugby, OTOH, is my new passion. Professional rugby in the US and 7s 3 day tournament in Glendale, CO this weekend. Woot!
Fewer dads and children = fewer dads taking kids to games = fewer younger people who like the game. Also it costs too much.
My dad took me to Forbes Field many times when I was a kid. He was using US Steel company tickets so it hardly cost anything to go.
When my kids were little I thought about going to a game when we visited the Burgh, but it just wasn’t feasible at over $100 counting tickets, parking and food. That was 25 years ago - it’s probably over $200 now.
Until the Dodgers return to Brooklyn, nothing will be right.
1994 also helped Cal extend his perfect attendance.
We’ve used that, or a variation of it.
When I’m really irritated, I’ll sometimes say, “Come on, Blue, that’s not even a strike in beeper ball.”
The new Globe Life Park for the Rangers next year will have fewer seats than the current stadium and will have a retractable roof. ...The first game today (double header) had ground temp of 137*. That wont be happening next year in an a/c stadium.
I’ve watched every Ranger game this year on TV. Some have been boring, like 1-0 or 2-0 games they call “pitchers’ duels”.
This week, the Rangers have won in the bottom of the 11th inning twice, 8-7 and 3-2. Those types of games are worth watching.
Please explain how having a DH adds to a game’s length or causes more pitcher changes.
Interleague play really sucks! I agree with you.
That applies to the NFL, too!
The teams of MLB and NFL should play all their games within their own conferences or leagues until interleague playoffs occur.
Yep - can’t remember the last time I watched an inning, much less a game...
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