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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Montreal Expos to Washington, 2005.
The Diamondbacks are known to have talked to Henderson, Nevada recently. The Orioles have at least talked to Nashville. The A’s keep trying to get a ballpark in Oakland, but they occasionally flirt with Las Vegas. And the Rays recently floated a plan where they would play half their games in Tampa-St. Petersburg and half in Montreal.
Shea Stadium...in either original configuration, baseball or football, all seats faced center of the field. Rolling field box sections and temporary stands added for football accomplished that.
I have to laugh. A while back, someone made a clever video showing the entire Kentucky Derby race starting and ending between two pitches.
There is no reason for a game that sluggish. Hell, golf tournaments move faster.
I don’t know about that. I’e player a teensy bit of cricket. it seemed the skill level was about the same.
I think they need to find a better quality batters glove so they don’t have to adjust them after every pitch.
The “Ashtray” Stadiums, like Three Rivers, and Riverfront.
One of the attempts to form a competing league (which might be very good for the sport) was the United Baseball League. They were going to reduce salaries but give all players profit sharing.
Well I don't know how many people can bat for an hour and a half against top-flight bowlers who put wicked spins on the ball without getting a Wicket or Popping out. It would be like asking Mike Trout to bat for an hour and half without swinging and missing even one pitch.
“Reminds me of one of my many trash lines to umpires:
‘Why don’t you go on strike instead of trying to call them?’”
I assume that line got you tossed a few times ...
I try to get people to imagine that the pitcher is bouncing every pitch in the dirt and the batter is expected to hit it. Plus the fielders don’t get to wear gloves.
Who can name even 5 current ball players, if they aren’t a diehard fan?
Just spent the last weekend in Pittsburgh to watch the Cubs series. PNC is the nicest place to see a game other than Wrigley. The tickets are getting kinda pricey though...
I live near Boston and Fenway is a dump.
Interleague play is bad partly because it reduces the number of games you play with the teams in your own league (especially the other divisions.) I get the Yankees vs. the Mets, but does anyone want to see Baltimore play Miami?
The same at DC Stadium (later called RFK.) All seats faced second base, which I think is ideal.
They should limit that too. You get to step out once. Second time, we’ll call a strike.
I do wonder why a pitcher can’t seem to go more than five innings anymore. The World Series Dodgers of 77 and 78 had a five man starting rotation, but they were typically good for seven innings or more. Part of that was because they didn’t have Sparky Lyle or Goose Gossage in the bullpen. But Burt Hooten-Tommy John-Don Sutton-Rick Rhoden and Doug Rau all had long careers (except maybe Rau, who tore a rotator cuff and was never the same). Heck, a future Hall of Famer in his prime was the #3 pitcher on the rotation, and these cats weren’t babied. Granted, they didn’t throw as hard as the guys today do (except Bob Welch, who was working relief at the time), but they also didn’t have as many home runs hit against them. I don’t think Hooten or John would give up many home runs even if pitching today.
I have plenty of others, too.
“What are you calling? The strike zone or the Twilight Zone?”
In Test Cricket, a batter can afford to put a ball in play for no runs, when the Overs are unlimited, but when it’s Limited Overs, like T20, every ball counts.
Chris Gayle is an absolute Beast, plenty of YouTube videos showing him. He’s nearing the end of his career, though. Wished I’d discovered Cricket when he was still in his prime.
It used to be you did your time in the bullpen before you became a starter, if you throw too much before you reach the age of 25, you’ll pretty much blow out your arm, but after the age of 25, if you haven’t thrown too much, your arm will pretty much be immune to those kind of injuries, it’s why Nolan Ryan had the career he did, he started in the Mets bullpen.
Pitchers don’t go more than five or six innings because we’re training them that way.
The sabermetricians discovered that there is a sharp decline in pitchers’ performance the third time through the order, so now managers won’t let them get through the order more than twice.
And they really believe that pitch limits preserve arms. But wouldn’t throwing strengthen the arm?
They’re trying to maximize effectiveness and prevent injuries. i don’t know that they’re approaching it right, but EVERY team sees it that way. Unfortunately.
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