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Post by Jean-Ralphio on Apr 3, 2012 17:46:46 GMT -5
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Post by Quanthor on Apr 3, 2012 20:36:21 GMT -5
Hmm.. I may need to recant my WS pick.
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Post by Tim Tebow™ on Apr 3, 2012 20:53:19 GMT -5
Have Friday off of work which is great cause I didn't think I'd be able to catch the game. So many early games for the Rays though the first month, I'm gonna miss over half of them.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Apr 4, 2012 8:12:58 GMT -5
I'm thinking of taking off work for Opening Day tomorrow and binging on baseball all day. Sleep in until 10. Baseball starts at noonish and the last game starts at 1800. I keep telling myself I'll do this every year, but I never do.
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on Apr 4, 2012 10:11:34 GMT -5
I'm thinking of taking off work for Opening Day tomorrow and binging on baseball all day. Sleep in until 10. Baseball starts at noonish and the last game starts at 1800. I keep telling myself I'll do this every year, but I never do.
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Post by T R W on Apr 4, 2012 10:37:34 GMT -5
As a baseball fan for over 30 years, I actually find that I have to force myself a little more every year to get interested in baseball. A lot of it I blame on Bud Selig and the lack of adaptation to todays audience. And once training camp for the NFL starts, forget about it until the playoffs. As much as I love the Braves, I think baseball needs a major overhaul.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Apr 4, 2012 11:08:02 GMT -5
As a baseball fan for over 30 years, I actually find that I have to force myself a little more every year to get interested in baseball. A lot of it I blame on Bud Selig and the lack of adaptation to todays audience. And once training camp for the NFL starts, forget about it until the playoffs. As much as I love the Braves, I think baseball needs a major overhaul. I think part of what gets boring with baseball is how long the season is and that there's a game every single day. With football you get one game, then there's a week of buildup for the next game. With football if you lose 49-0 the pundits and talking heads will break down your incompetence for an entire week and you're left waiting for your team to get vengeance. With baseball, you can get pasted 20-0 and it gets very little coverage because there's a game tomorrow or the next day. It's hard to get excited about any one game. Ok, so Roy Halladay is pitching against Stephen Strasburg today. That's a great matchup. But it gets little hype because the previous day Joe Blanton pitched against Ross Detweiler and the media can't completely ignore a game that's going on and there's only 24 hours to hype the Halladay/Strasburg match. You've also got to talk about the game next day where Cliff Lee is throwing against Gio Gonzalez. It's not all that interesting of a matchup, but you have to talk about since it's happening tomorrow. In the NFL, if Peyton Manning is going to play against Eli Manning, it gets hyped for a week by everyone. No one cares about the previous game and no one cares about the next game. You've got a week to hype the next game. Honest question though, what changes should be made. I'm with you with the Selig hate, but I don't know what changes could/should be made. Even if you add the DH in the NL (which I hate BTW) I don't think that's going to make people flock back to the sport. Baseball is just a slower paced game.
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Apr 4, 2012 12:28:22 GMT -5
It seems odd to say, because Spring Training is so long, but from what I've seen I'm not sure any Yankee starting pitcher except for Hiroki Kuroda and Hughes are where I want them to be right now.
I'm not sure why, but it just seems like their pitch counts are way too high way too early. Nova had over 70 pitches in the 3rd inning yesterday and got pounded, Garcia just threw 75 pitches in 4.2 innings, Sabathia hasn't look all that sharp really but he's the ace so I have to have confidence that he'll be where he needs to be on Friday.
I just don't know why these guys pitch counts are so high. They should be working much more economically their 5th and final turns in Spring Training. 70+ pitches in the 3rd and 4th inning isn't where I want the guys to be when everybody's next start counts for real and it WON'T be against A,AA, and AAA hitters either.
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Apr 4, 2012 13:05:28 GMT -5
Damn, it was good to see Andy pitch again. He looked good. His velocity was low, fastball topped out at like 85, but in three weeks I expect him to work that velocity back up and be right back to where he was like he never left.
Pitching is more movement and location and guys with 100 mph fastballs have been forced out of the game because they were throwers and not pitchers.....Andy, while his stuff was a little low in the velocity department, still had that trademark movement and pinpoint location.
#yesimexcitedover13pitches
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Post by Chip on Apr 4, 2012 13:19:46 GMT -5
I love baseball BECAUSE its basically an everyday sport.
Yea the NFL is fun once a week, but with baseball there is literally something going on every day of the week. Its so much more involved. Then playing Fantasy on top of that gives me a reason to pay attention to a lot of other players besides the Yankees.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Apr 4, 2012 14:01:07 GMT -5
I love baseball BECAUSE its basically an everyday sport. Yea the NFL is fun once a week, but with baseball there is literally something going on every day of the week. Its so much more involved. Then playing Fantasy on top of that gives me a reason to pay attention to a lot of other players besides the Yankees. The everyday thing is part of the appeal for me too. In football if your team just get pasted 49-0 and looks horrible you've got to sit around for a week and stew about it. In baseball, they go out the next day against a different pitcher and hopefully you have better luck. In football, if you team loses 4 straight, you start to wonder if you should panic 'cuz that's a quarter of your season that's gone. In baseball, you don't worry so much 'cuz you know the Pirates or the Royals are coming up on the schedule next week.
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Post by bad guy™ on Apr 4, 2012 14:15:44 GMT -5
The Pirates aren't all that bad though man. I don't know how they'll do this year, but they proved last year that they are no longer the laughing stock of the MLB, and that they at least have the right to be taken somewhat seriously. Haha.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Apr 4, 2012 14:21:39 GMT -5
The Pirates aren't all that bad though man. I don't know how they'll do this year, but they proved last year that they are no longer the laughing stock of the MLB, and that they at least have the right to be taken somewhat seriously. Haha. Fair enough. Still fun to pick on them though.
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Post by T R W on Apr 4, 2012 14:26:57 GMT -5
As a baseball fan for over 30 years, I actually find that I have to force myself a little more every year to get interested in baseball. A lot of it I blame on Bud Selig and the lack of adaptation to todays audience. And once training camp for the NFL starts, forget about it until the playoffs. As much as I love the Braves, I think baseball needs a major overhaul. I think part of what gets boring with baseball is how long the season is and that there's a game every single day. With football you get one game, then there's a week of buildup for the next game. With football if you lose 49-0 the pundits and talking heads will break down your incompetence for an entire week and you're left waiting for your team to get vengeance. With baseball, you can get pasted 20-0 and it gets very little coverage because there's a game tomorrow or the next day. It's hard to get excited about any one game. Ok, so Roy Halladay is pitching against Stephen Strasburg today. That's a great matchup. But it gets little hype because the previous day Joe Blanton pitched against Ross Detweiler and the media can't completely ignore a game that's going on and there's only 24 hours to hype the Halladay/Strasburg match. You've also got to talk about the game next day where Cliff Lee is throwing against Gio Gonzalez. It's not all that interesting of a matchup, but you have to talk about since it's happening tomorrow. In the NFL, if Peyton Manning is going to play against Eli Manning, it gets hyped for a week by everyone. No one cares about the previous game and no one cares about the next game. You've got a week to hype the next game. Honest question though, what changes should be made. I'm with you with the Selig hate, but I don't know what changes could/should be made. Even if you add the DH in the NL (which I hate BTW) I don't think that's going to make people flock back to the sport. Baseball is just a slower paced game. Pesonally I would: Add DH in the NL Expand rosters by 2 Cut the schedule back to 100 games Limit number of times batters can walk away from the plate to once per at bat Limit visits to mound to 1 per inning Add pitch timers Add salary cap remove home field from All-Star game That would just be on the first day. I'm sure I could think of a lot more.
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Post by Chip on Apr 4, 2012 14:37:38 GMT -5
Agree with most of that except the 100 games thing
I wouldn't drop it that low...maybe to 125-130. I think the amount of games is what makes baseball more interesting.
Salary cap will just never happen. With all the massive contracts out there, it would be impossible for them to re-structure everything without some kind of player backlash.
Expanding rosters should happen absolutely. Let every team stock 1 more pitcher and 1 more fielder. Would help out tremendously.
They definitely need to put some kind of limit on mound visits, pre pitch routines, etc. So many players slow the game down sooooo damn much with their foolish "step in-step out" "step on-step off" crap because they think its going to psyche the other player out...its awful
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Apr 4, 2012 14:46:57 GMT -5
I hate the DH, but we've beat that dead horse many times before. I don't know that expanding the roster is going to help at all. Teams are just going to add another left handed specialist or utility infielder or something. Cutting the schedule back would be huge. Basically every record you've got on the books now would stand forever. 500 HRs and 300 wins becomes a thing of the past. We'd never see another 20 game winner. We might not see many 15 game winners. You'd never see anyone hit 50-60 home runs ever again. You might as well toss out the record book and start over.
Limiting the number of times a batter can walk away and mound visits are good ideas. I think mound visits are limited to two right now. I dunno about the pitch timer. I've seen guys slow the game to a crawl when they're in a jam and it can be a great weapon to throw off the other team's timing. I see it kind of like varying the snap count in the NFL or running no huddle or something. You hope to throw off the other teams timing.
I don't like the salary cap 'cuz I've seen what it does to the NFL. The home field advantage in the All-star game has to go. I'm with you there.
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Post by T R W on Apr 4, 2012 14:51:50 GMT -5
Cutting the schedule back would be huge. Basically every record you've got on the books now would stand forever. 500 HRs and 300 wins becomes a thing of the past. We'd never see another 20 game winner. We might not see many 15 game winners. You'd never see anyone hit 50-60 home runs ever again. You might as well toss out the record book and start over. That doesn't bother me at all. It would mostly just upset "purists" and HOF voters, who are mostly the people responsilbe for baseball not evolving anyway. All you have to do is just change the records to modern era. The old records stand for 162 game seasons, and you have different records for 100 game seasons. Honestly, I think having fresh records to set and be broken would breathe a little life into things, and maybe the HOF voters would have to use their brains to vote, rather than some weird formula that makes zero sense to anyone with a brain.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Apr 4, 2012 15:05:39 GMT -5
HOF voting is the pits right now. The HOF is so watered down it's ridiculous.
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Apr 4, 2012 15:18:47 GMT -5
Yankees trade George Kantos for Chris Stewart. Stewart will backup Martin and Cervelli will be sent to AAA.
Sort of a shocking move. The backup catcher is really the least of our concerns, but Cervelli is a good guy and I'm surprised the Yankees didn't even feel comfortable with Cervelli catching once or twice every 15 days.
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on Apr 4, 2012 15:31:47 GMT -5
Yankees trade George Kantos for Chris Stewart. Stewart will backup Martin and Cervelli will be sent to AAA. Sort of a shocking move. The backup catcher is really the least of our concerns, but Cervelli is a good guy and I'm surprised the Yankees didn't even feel comfortable with Cervelli catching once or twice every 15 days. That is not shocking. Shocking is losing your closer for 4 months because of a thumb injury. Who cares who the backup C? Yankees have SO much depth in that department its crazy.
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