[MinorityRepublican]

TV baseball is unwatchable. Pitcher/catcher video game.

You need to watch Moneyball. A great movie.

The "three true outcomes" in baseball are said to be a home run, a walk or a strikeout due to the fact that none of the three, with the rare exception of an inside-the-park home run or a strikeout with a dropped third strike, involve the defense beyond the pitcher or the catcher.

It wasn't always like that when I was watching baseball growing up. You could bunt. Or steal.

[dennisw]

The "three true outcomes" in baseball are said to be a home run, a walk or a strikeout due to the fact that none of the three, with the rare exception of an inside-the-park home run or a strikeout with a dropped third strike, involve the defense beyond the pitcher or the catcher.

My favorite hit was a very hard line drive that goes for a single or a double. So hard that the shortstop or second basement could get injured. I'll bet they let some go by, rather than maybe get hurt trying to deal with it.

[P.O.E.]

I miss the low-tech days of the single camera angle from in the nosebleed seats, with occasional shots of the batter from first or third. And great local announcers.

[P.O.E.]

Had to look that up.

For one, players back in the day weren’t the honed machines they are now, so you’ve got power at the plate and the mound. Second, sabermetrics (I call it pro-fantasy ball) has resulted in self-fulfilling prophesies, as the statistically-determined managerial moves crowd out other choices.

So yeah, not the baseball of yore, which I miss.