CRobi21 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Stanton Homers in first Yankees AB... Good googly moogly Enjoy him AL. Good riddance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRobi21 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Stanton on pace for 324 HRs this year..... Mother of Gawd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 26 minutes ago, CRobi21 said: Stanton on Pace for 324 HRs this year..... Mother of Gawd. Probably get there playing so many of his games in AL East stadiums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo#44 Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 2 hours ago, CRobi21 said: Stanton Homers in first Yankees AB... Good googly moogly Enjoy him AL. Good riddance. Definitely glad we don't have to face him anymore. Although, seeing his majestic moonshots in person was a site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 My dad is about to be insufferable on this topic now, lmao, I'm still happy for him though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 One thing that is a certainty every year: the Padres will finish with a losing record. I really wish they would be competitive. That's one thing I don't like about MLB, there are always several teams that you know have zero chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 Like the Astros? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 The Padres were competitive and had some good teams IIRC in the early/mid 2000s when they had guys like Adrian Gonzalez, Khalil Greene etc. Its a myth that small market teams can't win in baseball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 You guys are right. What were the Astros' odds to win it all last year before the season started? I'd really like to know if you could find that info. Royals won it in 2015. I guess I was speaking more on the Padres cuz I'm a fan and they haven't won diddly squat. And let's be honest, they have zero chance to make the playoffs. That doesn't bother me as much. Two things that need to change are one, shorten the season and two, an automated strike zone. That would make the game so much better imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 I like the length of the season. Baseball needs lots of games to figure out who's good because of the streaky nature of the sport. If anything the playoffs should be lengthened, at the very least the DS should be best of 5 and maybe make the Wild Card best of 3. Agree 100% on automated strike zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoyler23 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Interesting that the fashion trend in baseball for 2018 is.... the C flap helmet. All the cool kids are doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Mets are probably gonna win the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justice98 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 On 3/29/2018 at 6:53 PM, CRobi21 said: Stanton on pace for 324 HRs this year..... Mother of Gawd. Oddly enough, 324 strikeouts as well. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dont Taze Me Bro Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 6 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said: Mets are probably gonna win the whole thing. Astros are still the favorites. And the Mets odds of winning it all is 11th overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 6 hours ago, justice98 said: Oddly enough, 324 strikeouts as well. lol He's in the record books as the only player in MLB history with two hitless/5 strikeout games in one season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo#44 Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 8 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said: Mets are probably gonna win the whole thing. Or they could completely fall apart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 On 3/30/2018 at 10:31 PM, Warhead36 said: I like the length of the season. Baseball needs lots of games to figure out who's good because of the streaky nature of the sport. If anything the playoffs should be lengthened, at the very least the DS should be best of 5 and maybe make the Wild Card best of 3. Agree 100% on automated strike zone. The length of the season was fine before we had four playoff rounds. Somewhere between 145 and 150 would be good. It's still a ton of games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo#44 Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss Bud Selig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 3 hours ago, Riggo#44 said: I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss Bud Selig. I miss him, too. The desire to shave 3 minutes off a game that last 3 hours on average is silly. How long does an NFL game last? 3 hours. People like baseball because it's leisurely with quick bursts of action and it's not regulated by a clock. Bud was goofy and folksy and I think that worked against him. He presided over baseball during a really weird time. I think he botched the PED thing. But throughout his tenure the game grew, attendance records were shattered and baseball did really, really well. This obsession that Manfred has of cutting off 5 or 10 minutes of a game is just dumb. Who's going to notice 5 minutes when the game is 3 hours? If a game that starts at 1pm finished at 3:55 instead of 4, does anyone care? Rob action out of the game, how's that work? What's his evidence? No, when my team brings in a setup man and a closer, they better be dominant. That's what they're there to do. Who's interested in watering down the game for more action? He's clamoring for shorter games but wants MORE action? Longer innings means MORE TIME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Sounds like he wants 9-6 scores. I’m good with 5-3 scores. More action on the back end adds time, duh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo#44 Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 Hell, I'm good with well-pitched, 3-2 scores. Take Max Scherzer last night for example--8th inning I was pumping my fist when Scherzer struck out Nat-killer extraordinarre Freddie Freeman. My wife got mad at me in the 9th when he whiffed Culberson and Inciarte back-to-back to end the game and I yelled, with a sleeping 4-year-old. Relievers are exciting. Pitching is exciting. This is how out of touch Manfred is. This is one thing NFL does much more than the MLB--it markets it's stars on both sides of the ball. Everything Manfred has proposed has been to limit pitching. Outside of the "Big 4" (Max, Kershaw, Sale, Kluber) there is a glut of fantastic pitchers that don't get enough attention: Strasburg, Severino, deGrom (overshadowed by the overrated Thor), Gerrit Cole is going to be fantastic this year. Watching filth come from Kimbrel, Chapman, Kenley Jansen, Felipe Rivero (now Vasquez), Doolittle, Andrew Miller, Rasiel Iglesias, Britton (when he's healthy), Corey Knebel. Hell, Kimbrel averaged almost 17 K/9 last year. That's insane. MLB needs to market the whole game, not just offense. Manfred doesn't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 29 minutes ago, Riggo#44 said: Hell, I'm good with well-pitched, 3-2 scores. Take Max Scherzer last night for example--8th inning I was pumping my fist when Scherzer struck out Nat-killer extraordinarre Freddie Freeman. My wife got mad at me in the 9th when he whiffed Culberson and Inciarte back-to-back to end the game and I yelled, with a sleeping 4-year-old. Relievers are exciting. Pitching is exciting. This is how out of touch Manfred is. This is one thing NFL does much more than the MLB--it markets it's stars on both sides of the ball. Everything Manfred has proposed has been to limit pitching. Outside of the "Big 4" (Max, Kershaw, Sale, Kluber) there is a glut of fantastic pitchers that don't get enough attention: Strasburg, Severino, deGrom (overshadowed by the overrated Thor), Gerrit Cole is going to be fantastic this year. Watching filth come from Kimbrel, Chapman, Kenley Jansen, Felipe Rivero (now Vasquez), Doolittle, Andrew Miller, Rasiel Iglesias, Britton (when he's healthy), Corey Knebel. Hell, Kimbrel averaged almost 17 K/9 last year. That's insane. MLB needs to market the whole game, not just offense. Manfred doesn't get it. Yeah, but we're diehards. And while 99 mph fastballs are exciting, a 99 mph fastball exiting the stadium at 450 feet is even more exciting. Maybe not to you and me and the other diehards, but thats because we get it. The so-called "casual fan" doesn't care about that. Keep in mind, MLB is marketing to the casual fans. We don't need to be marketed to because we'll show up and watch no matter what. The NBA markets dunks and 3 point shooters. They aren't marketing pick and rolls and screens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo#44 Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 I look at the NFL--Roger Goodell has turned off the key demographic with incomprehensible rules and an over saturation of a poor product--the Thursday night games come to mind. Is Manfred doing the same thing? (I've taken to calling him Rob Goo-Manfred). I don't know anyone who thinks his Pace of Play initiatives are a good thing, except maybe the mound visits--which I don't think were a big deal in the 1st place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dont Taze Me Bro Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 If anything, just fix the stupid ass designated hitter rule, either implement it across both the AL and NL or scrap it for the AL and make their pitchers bat. As a NL fan, I'm all for them doing away with it all together. But at this point, I'll take one way or the other just to make it consistent across the board. Limiting the amount of pitchers that can be used during the game is stupid. We all know there is only one way to shorten games, that's to shorten the total amount of innings, commercial breaks, and the time between at bats and pitches. We all know that they will not shorten the commercial breaks due to sponsors/advertising. Shorting the game to 7 innings, well since the average game lasts 3 hours (180 mins), that's 20 mins per inning, so it would reduce the average time played down to 2 hours 20 mins (give or take). But it wouldn't feel right, at all. Since there is no time keeping, I guess they could try and implement a play clock for the pitcher and batters box. Not sure if that alone would shave that much time off to justify even doing it. Hell, I don't know what the average amount of time it takes between bats or pitches, don't feel like looking to see if that stat is even kept (unofficially or officially). I'm not saying they should really change anything either. Except the DH rule. **** that rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dont Taze Me Bro Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 12 minutes ago, Riggo#44 said: I look at the NFL--Roger Goodell has turned off the key demographic with incomprehensible rules and an over saturation of a poor product--the Thursday night games come to mind. Is Manfred doing the same thing? (I've taken to calling him Rob Goo-Manfred). I don't know anyone who thinks his Pace of Play initiatives are a good thing, except maybe the mound visits--which I don't think were a big deal in the 1st place. They really aren't because his proposals aren't going to shave off any significant time that would be meaningful. There is only one way to do that, reduce the number of innings by 1 or 2. Then on average save 20 or 40 mins for games that only go either 7 or 8 innings. I wouldn't agree with the change, well because 9 innings is what we know. But, I also don't think it would be the end of the world if reduced to 8 innings, with the "7th inning stretch" just being a break between the 4th and 5th inning. Games would be reduced to 2 hours 40 mins. Did the commish by chance even say what his ideal total amount of time per game was? Cause, if he's shooting for something like the length of a college BB or NBA game, cause that average is 2 hours 10 mins (college) and 2 hours 15 mins (NBA). Is he wanting say 2 hour 30 min games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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