Gary Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 Why is it whenever the Rays and Red Sox play each other, the benches always clear? Because games under 3 hours aren't allowed.Dude Really?Yeah, really. Lowest offensive production of the DH era and games take longer than ever. That's not a good thing. What part of that do you not understand? The average age of a 2013 World Series viewer was 55. Is that a positive stat? Games don't have enough action, and they take too long, dude.THEN DON'T WATCH! There are people out there that will watch no matter what pitcher or hitter is out there playing the game. No matter what production there is on the field. Trust me no one will miss you with your upside down trident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Why is it whenever the Rays and Red Sox play each other, the benches always clear? Because games under 3 hours aren't allowed.Dude Really?Yeah, really. Lowest offensive production of the DH era and games take longer than ever. That's not a good thing. What part of that do you not understand? The average age of a 2013 World Series viewer was 55. Is that a positive stat? Games don't have enough action, and they take too long, dude.Then start your own dadaist arena baseball that emphasizes offense to the point of absurdity. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggens Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Baseball Tonight on ESPN: "Giants & A's are 1-2 in the ESPN power rankings and now let's examine what it means for the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers. What do you mean there are 27 other teams in MLB?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Respect is overrated. Championships, on the other hand, are not. On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayMac Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Baseball Tonight on ESPN: "Giants & A's are 1-2 in the ESPN power rankings and now let's examine what it means for the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers. What do you mean there are 27 other teams in MLB?" That's exactly why I don't watch any ESPN programming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggens Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Respect is overrated. Championships, on the other hand, are not.Exactly. Baseball Tonight on ESPN: "Giants & A's are 1-2 in the ESPN power rankings and now let's examine what it means for the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers. What do you mean there are 27 other teams in MLB?" That's exactly why I don't watch any ESPN programming.I really don't much either except for college sports & 30 for 30. I just make fun of ESPN for their lame biases. It's fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayMac Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Respect is overrated. Championships, on the other hand, are not. Exactly. Baseball Tonight on ESPN: "Giants & A's are 1-2 in the ESPN power rankings and now let's examine what it means for the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers. What do you mean there are 27 other teams in MLB?" That's exactly why I don't watch any ESPN programming. I really don't much either except for college sports & 30 for 30. I just make fun of ESPN for their lame biases. It's fun.I do love the 30 for 30 and I do watch a little bit of college sports as well. But they have turned into the TMZ of the sports world. I love to bash them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggens Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 I do love the 30 for 30 and I do watch a little bit of college sports as well. But they have turned into the TMZ of the sports world. I love to bash them.About them turning into the TMZ of sports. My thoughts exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twi Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 So I don't really follow baseball until after the All Star break. Took a glance at the standings today; what's up with the Rays? Are they as bad as the record would indicate? It is cool to see the Blue Jays on top, hope they keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 So I don't really follow baseball until after the All Star break. Took a glance at the standings today; what's up with the Rays? Are they as bad as the record would indicate?It is cool to see the Blue Jays on top, hope they keep it up.Injuries, the Ryas have lost 3/5 of their rotation and their lineup is also banged up. www.sportsecyclopedia.com For the best in sports history go to the Sports E-Cyclopedia at http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramerica Industries Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 If the Yankees and Mets were to swap home ballparks for the remainder of 2014, both teams might just make the playoffs.Both teams have been flat out abysmal at home this season, and when they played their four game split series a few weeks back, the road team won all four games. The Mets in particular are something like 105-140 at home since the 2011 season. It's weird and unfortunate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smzimbabwe Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Yesterday, Kyle Seager of the Mariners hit a double, 2 triples, and a home run, one of the triples came when Derek Jeter thought the ball was foul and leisurely went after it, allowing Seager to motor around to third. I was amazed at how many Mariner fans online were saying they should rule that a single and an error after the game so that Seager could have hit for the cycle. I don't care how you get them, 4 extra base hits in a game is pretty impressive, yet somehow, only getting 3 of them so you can get a fancy named stat is more impressive. I'm just not impressed when someone hits for the cycle, it bothered me that people thought a cycle would have been more impressive statistically than what he actually accomplished.That's my rant for now, I'll come up with another one when someone hits a magic round number in something statistically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soarindude Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 If the Yankees and Mets were to swap home ballparks for the remainder of 2014, both teams might just make the playoffs.Both teams have been flat out abysmal at home this season, and when they played their four game split series a few weeks back, the road team won all four games. The Mets in particular are something like 105-140 at home since the 2011 season. It's weird and unfortunate.This is one of the reasons I love baseball. The stadiums can truly play a role in a teams success. Pitchers parks and hitting parks are really what set baseball apart from other sports.I'll always be a football/soccer fan over baseball, but these little niches make baseball all that more interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burkell007 Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 So price gets away scott free but workman gets banned 6 games?? What a joke, the umps in that game and MLB offices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCall Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Well technically, he shouldn't have been. Yeah it was pretty clear he hit Ortiz intentionally, but he wasn't ejected at that time and usually that's the case with the first incident of a game/series.. They were warned, but after that, he didn't do anything to be ejected. Besides after their little whinefest in Tampa Bay, I can't muster up any sympathy for the Red Sox. https://dribbble.com/MakaioCall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomDreamer Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Why is it whenever the Rays and Red Sox play each other, the benches always clear? Because games under 3 hours aren't allowed.Dude Really?Yeah, really. Lowest offensive production of the DH era and games take longer than ever. That's not a good thing. What part of that do you not understand? The average age of a 2013 World Series viewer was 55. Is that a positive stat? Games don't have enough action, and they take too long, dude.THEN DON'T WATCH! There are people out there that will watch no matter what pitcher or hitter is out there playing the game. No matter what production there is on the field. Trust me no one will miss you with your upside down trident.You're right, no way baseball should ever make adjustments and adapt to a changing audience. 2-1 8 1/2 innings games that last 3 1/2 hours are perfectly acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderbread Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 perfectly fine, the last thing we want is the MLB to turn into the NBA that has stripped away everything that made it great to "appeal to a younger audience" and has kill the league over the past 10-15 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Why is it whenever the Rays and Red Sox play each other, the benches always clear? Because games under 3 hours aren't allowed.Dude Really?Yeah, really. Lowest offensive production of the DH era and games take longer than ever. That's not a good thing. What part of that do you not understand? The average age of a 2013 World Series viewer was 55. Is that a positive stat? Games don't have enough action, and they take too long, dude.THEN DON'T WATCH! There are people out there that will watch no matter what pitcher or hitter is out there playing the game. No matter what production there is on the field. Trust me no one will miss you with your upside down trident.You're right, no way baseball should ever make adjustments and adapt to a changing audience. 2-1 8 1/2 innings games that last 3 1/2 hours are perfectly acceptable.Cut out commercials.PROBLEM SOLVED. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomDreamer Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Enforcing existing rules would be a start. Implementing a pitch clock would also make sense. Putting a limit on mound visits and reducing the time it takes to make a pitching change would be great as well. MLB would kill to have the NBA's demographics. The average NBA fan is a decade younger than the average MLB fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderbread Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Enforcing existing rules would be a start. Implementing a pitch clock would also make sense. Putting a limit on mound visits and reducing the time it takes to make a pitching change would be great as well. MLB would kill to have the NBA's demographics. The average NBA fan is a decade younger than the average MLB fan.So a demographic with less money to spend on tickets and merchandise, and without families that they also bring to the games and buy stuff for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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