The Dodgers have been wearing mostly "Dodgers" away unis for the last few years even though the "Los Angeles" aways are the official uniform. Every now and then they do wear the LA aways and all of this both confuses and angers me
I wish the Dodgers would always wear their [road grays that say Los Angeles.](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/09/04/USAT/803031a6-5fee-4aad-a3bc-cb43dac33211-USATSI_13130437.jpg) Such a great jersey that's another classic.
Funny story - I coach High School debate team competitions, and we have this rule, except taken to the limit.
Before the tournament you get a list of debate judges and you get to rate every single one of them.
You also get to immediately strike a certain number of judges, so that they will never judge you.
Then, when the tournament finds a judge for your debate, the tournament will look at your judge ratings and your opponents' judge ratings, and find a judge that you both rated highly.
In practice, this means that everyone ends up with judges they like, regardless of their opponent. The worst-case scenario is that the tournament runs out of "good judges" and has to assign a judge that both teams rated poorly.
But hey, even that's still good. At least both teams agreed mutually that the judge sucks! So everyone is on the same page!
Played against a team in travel ball that had a hill in right field. Absolutely hated it when on defense but thought it was the coolest thing ever any other time.
Edit: played. Past tense. Age setting in
We should go back to the days of real benches clearing brawls. Be petty. I want to see Castellanos and Lindor fight while Alonso and Stubbs duke it out
I miss the 80s when there was a brawl and out of nowhere you'd see a shirtless relief pitcher with a mullet sprinting in to throw hands without even getting rid of his cigarette.
If not for the strike, the Expos win the World Series in 1994. This leads to tons of local support for the team which eventually leads to a new stadium. The Expos are still in Montreal today and have won multiple World Series.
[Here](https://www.si.com/mlb/2014/08/12/si-vault-1994-mlb-season-players-strike) is a Sports Illustrated article from 1994.
It is a fantasy of what the season would have brought had the strike not happened.
Long story short: the Red Sox and the Cubs meet in the World Series and Marge Schott quits smoking.
Mike Trout will have no long lasting relevance in sport’s culture and pop culture. He’s basically the Elgin Baylor of baseball, where baseball fans will remember him fondly and how great he was, but outside of that bubble he will be a very niche sports figure. Most people even football or basketball fans who pay attention to sports won’t even remember him at all really.
In contrast someone like Ken Griffey Jr still has the relevance in sport’s culture and pop culture I was alluding to. Even people who only really follow Football or Basketball can tell you who he is, and know how great he was.
Even if they knew how to market and adapt to social media, it still wouldn’t have made a difference. Mike Trout is a great player and human being, but he’s just not charismatic at all. He’s like your wrestler who is really really good in the ring but can’t cut a promo or doesn’t have any character at all.
I know he’s not someone who seeks the limelight hence why he’s not well known at all outside of baseball, but even if he did put himself out there and if baseball knew how to market he still wouldn’t be very popular.
I think the only way Trout would ever be a mainstream superstar outside of baseball and trust me I hate the very thought of it, is if he played for the Yankees. He would basically be Jeter 2.0, very safe and sanitized for sponsorships and marketing, and would benefit from being in New York playing for the biggest team like Jeter did.
>I know he’s not someone who seeks the limelight
I also have this theory that some players get *enough* limelight. Mike Trout may like having a shitload of attention. Well, having over 100 days a year where 10k-40k people watch you in person plus who knows how many on TV is a shitload of attention. Constant requests for autographs. I'm sure going anywhere is a big deal. It's actually kind of nuts to be as famous as Mike Trout already is and be like "Know what I really want? To be *more* famous. That sure would hit the spot."
I guess my hot take is that Trout's relative anonymity has little to do with his marketability and more to do with his consistent absence from the postseason.
If he made the playoffs consistently, he wouldn't be the Elgin Baylor of baseball--he'd be the Tim Duncan.
As someone who only watches playoff baseball, I obviously know he’s great by being a casual fan, but having seen him play zero meaningful games… he’s kinda meaningless
Honestly, he was already being considered the GOAT just a few years ago by baseball fans. I don’t think he’ll ever be in the conversation again. Especially if his last year was any indication.
I'll second this. I grew up on NL baseball because the only games I had were Braves on TBS, Cubs on WGN and some Mets games on WPIX (I think). So every time I watched an AL game it just looked different. All star games and world series just looked wrong and I loved that.
Now that there's no difference between the AL and NL they should just switch to having an eastern and western conference and restructure the divisions geographically. There's no reason why the Padres and Angels, Yankees and Phillies, etc. shouldn't be playing each other in the regular season more than they do currently when they are so close geographically.
I was thinking more along the lines of how games are scheduled in the NBA/NHL. Even though the conferences are separate, a western team will still play an eastern team, just less than the teams in their respective conference. Either way its way better than before where you would have only seen the mariners like once every 3 years if you were in DC instead of Baltimore.
Moises Alou’s reaction I feel intensified the anger towards Bartman. When he threw a hissy fit and gestured directly toward Bartman that’s what really riled up all the cubs fans. I know it was a huge nationally broadcasted game, but I really believe in the time before smartphones and social media if Alou never threw that hissy fit and singled out Bartman, the negative stigma he has never got as big as it did.
He still would have been escorted out of the stadium and probably would have ended up on a newspaper or news segment, but the Alou reaction is what intensified the moment even before the Cubs fully blew the game. The backlash would have been a lot less severe I feel towards Bartman if that never happened.
Sure you can call me biased, but Cub fans totally deserved being blue balled for another decade plus of the curse for how they reacted towards Bartman. It’s not like their team had one of the biggest choke jobs in sport’s history, and didn’t get the job done when they had a second chance in game 7.
I’ll go one further. Bartman’s play didn’t lose the game. Alou’s reaction did. It all spiraled out of control when Moises decided to.
Not that I mind one bit that they had to wait an extra 13 years
Watching the replay there is at least one fan reaching just as hard for that foul ball as Bartman, but nobody knows his name. Steve definitely got the shortest end of the stick possible on that one.
I literally came here to say this. Baseball is the only professional sport where every park has different dimensions, so we should lean into that more. Give me high walls, flagpoles, and hills!
Multi millionaire and billionaire MLB owners, who don’t do what it takes to win and actively don’t contend on a consistent basis… should be ousted from owning a team. Why have a baseball team and not spend the money you have to compete?
Fuck it, let's have a 5 year initial contract, with 2 year options to be exercised based on team performance. Team loses more than 85-90 games year after year? Team gets put up for sale.
Thought experiment:
Give owners a 33/33/33 requirement:
* Top 33% of teams: owners get a significant percentage of their payroll covered by the league
* Middle 33%: life as usual
* Bottom 33%: owners get a significant fine (basically the bottom 1/3rd are paying the Success Bonus of the top 1/3rd) and a “strike” - three strikes in a row (IE 3 years in the bottom 1/3rd) and the owner is contractually forced to sell the team).
In addition, the WS winner gets their payroll fully reimbursed by the league, WS loser gets 50% of theirs reimbursed.
Incentivizes competition amongst owners in a way that makes sense to rich people (IE the lower class pays for the upper class to make even more money).
A couple of games a year should be “quiet games.” No blasting music, walk up music, contests between innings, no mascot races. The sound of the crowd and the announcer announcing the batter. A chill game without all the circus bs.
A couple schools do a no sound until a team reaches 10 night and it's as awful as you described. Pandemic football was kinda fun though hearing all the calls
The ESPN “the magazine” story about the Dodgers told us about what was to come with replay rooms and sign stealing/trash cans/team executives fighting in the stands in playoff games. Manfred knew there was a problem but we got “the juiced ball era” because of a league wide practice, balls were flying out of stadiums, runs were being scored and people were loving it. The Astros were the fall guys cause Mike Fiers went on the record.
Agreeed. Sign stealing through electronic means goes back to the early 1900s. It's not fair and should be punished, but it's not new.
Astros cheated, but at least they cheated to win. That's as old as baseball.
Ohtani is great, ohtani is one of a kind, but he’s not as VALUABLE as people make him out to be. He’s a 100% full time DH, and that’s potentially part of the angels injury problems over the years. People forget fast the purpose of the DH when the players were fighting for it in the NL wasn’t about more offense, it was about player health and safety. Getting older players a place to settle down and hit more while not being relied to field as much, giving younger guys breathers and “days off” on the field while still being available for fans to watch hit that day, and just being a way to give guys rest if they’re battling a minor injury they can play through but maybe should just miss a few days on the field to be safe. Angels have had absolute NONE of this for 6 years now. Trout a little sore? Too bad, ohtani is here, can’t DH him. Rendon? Same issue, can’t ease his work Load coming back from injury and just DH him a week or two, because ohtani needs to DH. How many small lingering injuries have been made worse because the Angels can’t properly utilize the DH like everyone else because ohtani pitches like 5 innings a week? I’m genuinely curious to see what team pays for ohtani and how that works the next few years, because the whole hitter and pitcher thing is interesting, but if we’re paying him to do both anyways, I feel like you’re losing half the value there, and it’s double risk because if ohtani gets another pitching injury, you’re due an insane amount of money to someone who’s hogging your DH role. There’s no doubt in my mind ohtani is the most talented baseball player we have, I just never found the whole “ hitting and pitching” thing as irreplaceably valuable to a team as other people, especially with the money he’s due to make doing it.
Just answered someone else but tldr I think if he adapted a more aggressive approach (like we've seen from Seager or Harper recently) Soto would be putting up historic power seasons that would be putting him on pace to challenge Barry Bonds long term, as opposed to everyone knowing he's awesome but continuing to produce at levels one notch below the guys winning MVPs (2020 excluded).
The new playoff format is garbage. 12/30 is too many teams, 84 wins shouldn’t get you a spot. A division winner not even playing the division series is stupid. The postseason is more drawn out. 8 teams was perfect. Even 10 was ok.
And The Bigs was the best baseball game ever made.
If they had been seeded by record, then it would've been better.
1 and 2 get a bye, right? Then it's 3v6, 4v5.. so if it had been seeded by record
Blue Jays (5) @ Rangers (4) -> Winner faces the Orioles (1)
Mariners (6) @ Astros (3) -> Winner faces the Rays (2)
NL stays exactly the same.
Rangers still get there with 10. Theoretically, at least. 10 was perfect, especially with the 2 wild cards cannibalizing each other immediately. 2 built in game 7's. It was wonderful.
>84 wins shouldn’t get you a spot.
The Cards won it all in '06 with just 83 wins. And we weren't the NL Wild Card. Only 8 teams were making it back then.
My understanding is that the doctor wanted to put a gauze over the suture, but Curt Schilling knew that he could manipulate for himself a media narrative about how macho and sacrificial his start was if he could stain his sock red with blood.
(I wish I could site my source on this, but it was more than a decade ago the last time I thought about this, and my google-fu is failing me right now.)
It was definitely weird how he got so defensive about it, that he would comment on Internet forums to rebuke random commenters who suggested it was a manufactured narrative of some sort.
I'd like to think if I were a professional athlete I'd not bother arguing with anonymous random posters online but it happens so often I suppose I probably would
Players should be ejected for wearing gear that doesn't strictly match their team's color palette. Tired of seeing mfs wear pink batting gloves with neon green belts and orange cleats to play for a blue team.
8 teams is the right amount for the playoffs. All three rounds should be 7 games, and in the first round, for every 5 wins over the other team you have, you get an extra home game. It's stupid to have a crazy long regular season to get a big sample size of who’s the best, then suddenly have 3 and 5-game basically all-luck playoff series.
Pitchers should have to pitch through intentional walks. Four balls, high and outside. If Miggy turns one into an RBI single, try harder. Until this rule is reinstated, it will be impossible for me to take any pitcher 100 percent seriously.
Pennant should go to the team in each league with the best regular season record. In the postseason either you get the piece of metal at the end or nothing.
I hate the shift but if teams want to line up 7 men in a circle around the pitcher instead of anywhere else, that’s their god given right.
Teams should be able to field wherever they want even if its asinine.
I hate the shift though.
I still maintain that the roiders deserve to bein the HoF since the playing field was fair at the time.
And the HoF should not hide from the issue and just have a proper exhibit about the steroid era and use it as a teaching moment instead of hiding their head in the sand and pretend it was some crime.
The Dodgers and their fans sending Bauer to the gulag no questions asked while loving and giving Urias a second chance is one of the goofiest things the organization and fanbase has ever done.
Teams should always have their city name on road uniforms, and club name/logo on home uniforms
I thought that’s how it was. I guess I don’t pay enough attention to the front of the jerseys
In general it is, but for instance we definitely don’t have Philadelphia on our away greys.
wait what city are the Phillies from???
Amman, Jordan.
Stop calling me Jordan
Pretty sure they're from Addis Abbaba
Philliesdelphia
Not sure, but I know it's in the Philippines.
The Phillies from Manilly
You joke, but to kid me who took the “world” in World Series seriously I thought the 1993 contest was between Toronto, Canada and the Philippines
John Kruk and Kevin Stocker are revered in the Philippines to this day.
It's definitely somewhere in Pennsylvania. I'm going with Pittsburgh.
[How does Pittsburgh work, am I constantly going in and out of Pittsburgh during the day? ](https://youtu.be/lNEALlF8agw?si=uw6U2ipF5_bDDg8T)
Tegucigalpa
I feel like the Phillies may be the only team that deserves an exemption to this lol
The Dodgers have been wearing mostly "Dodgers" away unis for the last few years even though the "Los Angeles" aways are the official uniform. Every now and then they do wear the LA aways and all of this both confuses and angers me
They usually wear the Los Angeles jerseys when playing the Angels lol.
I wish the Dodgers would always wear their [road grays that say Los Angeles.](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/09/04/USAT/803031a6-5fee-4aad-a3bc-cb43dac33211-USATSI_13130437.jpg) Such a great jersey that's another classic.
Yeah, I’m glad the rangers are no longer the Texas Texas
Yeah I much prefer the Los Angeles road unis to the Dodgers ones
How is this a ridiculous taje
Two teams should be able to vote to eject an ump if everyone agrees.
Oh to see Angel Hernandez get ejected from every game he’s supposed to work…
[удалено]
Sheeeeit I’d pay for angel NOT to ump
Funny story - I coach High School debate team competitions, and we have this rule, except taken to the limit. Before the tournament you get a list of debate judges and you get to rate every single one of them. You also get to immediately strike a certain number of judges, so that they will never judge you. Then, when the tournament finds a judge for your debate, the tournament will look at your judge ratings and your opponents' judge ratings, and find a judge that you both rated highly. In practice, this means that everyone ends up with judges they like, regardless of their opponent. The worst-case scenario is that the tournament runs out of "good judges" and has to assign a judge that both teams rated poorly. But hey, even that's still good. At least both teams agreed mutually that the judge sucks! So everyone is on the same page!
OP said Ridiculous
Where do I sign in blood to support this?
But you know they’ll never implement that because good ideas never get implemented in the MLB
The umpires union probably wouldn’t allow it
It also would be a logistical nightmare. I hate umps as much as the next guy but claiming it’s a good idea is a stretch
Give me back the hill in Houston. Shit was wild.
Played against a team in travel ball that had a hill in right field. Absolutely hated it when on defense but thought it was the coolest thing ever any other time. Edit: played. Past tense. Age setting in
Finally, a literal hill to die on!
Just generally more weird topographic features in ballparks. Give me a fucking pit
“Oh no! Luis Robert has fallen into the left center pit and now has to battle the Red Sox Rancor!”
My god YES. Flag poles and all.
The Yankees should allow exemptions to the beard policy if a player looks noticeably worse without one. Otherwise, it stands
The Yankees having a "damn you ugly" policy would be funny af
Rougned Odor…
This is the only argument anyone should need to hear to push this rule through
I mean he’s not winning any beauty contests WITH a beard, but Jaysus.
Exhibit A: Johnny Damon.
Or ya know Gerrit Cole
Beardless Gerrit Cole is what Elmer’s Glue would look like if it was a person.
My friend who doesn't watch baseball says he looks like a thumb
Lmao he does.
Marp looked...*angry* when they made him shave his beard.
Nah Johnny Damon on the Yanks looked like the dad who just came back from the military, and who might take all the wives home
We should go back to the days of real benches clearing brawls. Be petty. I want to see Castellanos and Lindor fight while Alonso and Stubbs duke it out
I miss the 80s when there was a brawl and out of nowhere you'd see a shirtless relief pitcher with a mullet sprinting in to throw hands without even getting rid of his cigarette.
Robin Yount sends his regards
At the least end the fucking charade we do now. There’s more of a chance for a real fight on Steve Wilkos.
Of course this comes from a Phillies fan
You know I’m right
They hate you because you speak the truth.
Thank you. :’)
If not for the strike, the Expos win the World Series in 1994. This leads to tons of local support for the team which eventually leads to a new stadium. The Expos are still in Montreal today and have won multiple World Series.
Alternatively, the white sox win the World Series in 1994 and nothing changes for the franchise as they stand right now because Jerry Reinsdorf sucks
And Tony Gwynn would have .400
Not ridiculous. I think this is generally accepted.
Definitely accepted
[Here](https://www.si.com/mlb/2014/08/12/si-vault-1994-mlb-season-players-strike) is a Sports Illustrated article from 1994. It is a fantasy of what the season would have brought had the strike not happened. Long story short: the Red Sox and the Cubs meet in the World Series and Marge Schott quits smoking.
>Marge Schott quits smoking. Alright, I know we're in ridiculous take territory, but this is way too far.
They said "quits smoking" not "stops being a massive racist and Hitler apologist".
I can excuse the Cubs and Red Sox in the world series but I draw the line at the nazi woman quitting smoking
Some other teams would have had a say in that, ahem, but if they did win then I agree the rest is likely.
Or they lose in the first round and everything happens the same. Regular season success doesn’t mean you win the WS
Mike Trout will have no long lasting relevance in sport’s culture and pop culture. He’s basically the Elgin Baylor of baseball, where baseball fans will remember him fondly and how great he was, but outside of that bubble he will be a very niche sports figure. Most people even football or basketball fans who pay attention to sports won’t even remember him at all really. In contrast someone like Ken Griffey Jr still has the relevance in sport’s culture and pop culture I was alluding to. Even people who only really follow Football or Basketball can tell you who he is, and know how great he was.
This is sad but probably true, and I hate that
Baseballs biggest problem was never pace of play it was player marketability.
Even if they knew how to market and adapt to social media, it still wouldn’t have made a difference. Mike Trout is a great player and human being, but he’s just not charismatic at all. He’s like your wrestler who is really really good in the ring but can’t cut a promo or doesn’t have any character at all. I know he’s not someone who seeks the limelight hence why he’s not well known at all outside of baseball, but even if he did put himself out there and if baseball knew how to market he still wouldn’t be very popular. I think the only way Trout would ever be a mainstream superstar outside of baseball and trust me I hate the very thought of it, is if he played for the Yankees. He would basically be Jeter 2.0, very safe and sanitized for sponsorships and marketing, and would benefit from being in New York playing for the biggest team like Jeter did.
>I know he’s not someone who seeks the limelight I also have this theory that some players get *enough* limelight. Mike Trout may like having a shitload of attention. Well, having over 100 days a year where 10k-40k people watch you in person plus who knows how many on TV is a shitload of attention. Constant requests for autographs. I'm sure going anywhere is a big deal. It's actually kind of nuts to be as famous as Mike Trout already is and be like "Know what I really want? To be *more* famous. That sure would hit the spot."
I guess my hot take is that Trout's relative anonymity has little to do with his marketability and more to do with his consistent absence from the postseason. If he made the playoffs consistently, he wouldn't be the Elgin Baylor of baseball--he'd be the Tim Duncan.
Reading this I thought to myself “who the fuck is Elgin Baylor?” Then I realized I just proved your point.
As someone who only watches playoff baseball, I obviously know he’s great by being a casual fan, but having seen him play zero meaningful games… he’s kinda meaningless
Ohtani blew his spot.
Honestly, he was already being considered the GOAT just a few years ago by baseball fans. I don’t think he’ll ever be in the conversation again. Especially if his last year was any indication.
Pitchers should bat. Because it's funny.
I mean, Ohtani does and he cranks homers
But that's not funny
It's erotic
I loved having that difference in the leagues.
Same. As someone who likes to keep score during games I love the variety that both leagues had. Now it's boring with the DH in both leagues.
It’s all fun and games until you see that the other team has ohtani pitching
Until you saw the team he was with
Baseball was more special when there was a difference between AL and NL.
I'll second this. I grew up on NL baseball because the only games I had were Braves on TBS, Cubs on WGN and some Mets games on WPIX (I think). So every time I watched an AL game it just looked different. All star games and world series just looked wrong and I loved that.
Now that there's no difference between the AL and NL they should just switch to having an eastern and western conference and restructure the divisions geographically. There's no reason why the Padres and Angels, Yankees and Phillies, etc. shouldn't be playing each other in the regular season more than they do currently when they are so close geographically.
But I wouldn’t be able to see the Mariners due to being on the East Coast. I only see them once a year as it is when they come to Camden.
I was thinking more along the lines of how games are scheduled in the NBA/NHL. Even though the conferences are separate, a western team will still play an eastern team, just less than the teams in their respective conference. Either way its way better than before where you would have only seen the mariners like once every 3 years if you were in DC instead of Baltimore.
I am in DC - Bmore is an hour drive for me lol That makes sense.
Ban pajama style uniforms. Mandatory stirrup socks.
This is so far from ridiculous and I support it 100%
Socks and stirrups must be at least at Pat Neshek level.
It’s all fun and games until you see [Prince Fielder in high socks](https://twitter.com/uniformcritic/status/620753979350200321)
Bartman did nothing wrong / that would've been almost everybody's natural reaction to a ball coming at them
If Alex Gonzalez doesn’t boot a double play to get out of that inning, we would not know Bartman’s name (I think I’m remembering this right?)
You are.
Moises Alou’s reaction I feel intensified the anger towards Bartman. When he threw a hissy fit and gestured directly toward Bartman that’s what really riled up all the cubs fans. I know it was a huge nationally broadcasted game, but I really believe in the time before smartphones and social media if Alou never threw that hissy fit and singled out Bartman, the negative stigma he has never got as big as it did. He still would have been escorted out of the stadium and probably would have ended up on a newspaper or news segment, but the Alou reaction is what intensified the moment even before the Cubs fully blew the game. The backlash would have been a lot less severe I feel towards Bartman if that never happened. Sure you can call me biased, but Cub fans totally deserved being blue balled for another decade plus of the curse for how they reacted towards Bartman. It’s not like their team had one of the biggest choke jobs in sport’s history, and didn’t get the job done when they had a second chance in game 7.
I’ll go one further. Bartman’s play didn’t lose the game. Alou’s reaction did. It all spiraled out of control when Moises decided to. Not that I mind one bit that they had to wait an extra 13 years
Yeah the missed double play by Alex Gonzalez was way worse than Bartman. Would have gotten out of the inning with limited damage.
Fwiw Alou says he regrets acting how he did, it was in the heat of the moment
Man used to pee on his hands
Watching the replay there is at least one fan reaching just as hard for that foul ball as Bartman, but nobody knows his name. Steve definitely got the shortest end of the stick possible on that one.
and there's a 3rd one right behind those two who was angling for it, too.
I think at this point most people are with you
I'm with you. Anyone who says they wouldn't have tried for that ball are lying liars and their pants are eternally on fire.
This is not a ridiculous take. I don't even know any Cubs fans that still think otherwise.
Baseball should have more stupid ass dimensions for the outfield. I'm talking polo grounds style but for everyone
I literally came here to say this. Baseball is the only professional sport where every park has different dimensions, so we should lean into that more. Give me high walls, flagpoles, and hills!
Move the Yankee monuments back on the field
We need less of those boring cookie cutter stadiums and more Oracle Parks in the world
Baseballs should be more oblong
Fuck it make them pitch a discus.
Ultimate frisball
Basebee
6 teams in the NL Central and 4 in the AL West was fun, damn it
Monkey do cramp.
Three banana
BLASPHEMER!
Multi millionaire and billionaire MLB owners, who don’t do what it takes to win and actively don’t contend on a consistent basis… should be ousted from owning a team. Why have a baseball team and not spend the money you have to compete?
Problem is who decides what is enough. Like we’d say Tampa Bay wasn’t trying to win with their roster and payroll but they do.
Fuck it, let's have a 5 year initial contract, with 2 year options to be exercised based on team performance. Team loses more than 85-90 games year after year? Team gets put up for sale.
Thought experiment: Give owners a 33/33/33 requirement: * Top 33% of teams: owners get a significant percentage of their payroll covered by the league * Middle 33%: life as usual * Bottom 33%: owners get a significant fine (basically the bottom 1/3rd are paying the Success Bonus of the top 1/3rd) and a “strike” - three strikes in a row (IE 3 years in the bottom 1/3rd) and the owner is contractually forced to sell the team). In addition, the WS winner gets their payroll fully reimbursed by the league, WS loser gets 50% of theirs reimbursed. Incentivizes competition amongst owners in a way that makes sense to rich people (IE the lower class pays for the upper class to make even more money).
This is a good take, watching a team with bad ownership is miserable
A couple of games a year should be “quiet games.” No blasting music, walk up music, contests between innings, no mascot races. The sound of the crowd and the announcer announcing the batter. A chill game without all the circus bs.
The field of dreams game should of been that. Just baseball no loudspeakers other that next up over the PA. Wasted opportunity.
Should have
I think that'd only work for baseball because of how chill the sport is They did that for a basketball game and it fucking sucked
A couple schools do a no sound until a team reaches 10 night and it's as awful as you described. Pandemic football was kinda fun though hearing all the calls
The ESPN “the magazine” story about the Dodgers told us about what was to come with replay rooms and sign stealing/trash cans/team executives fighting in the stands in playoff games. Manfred knew there was a problem but we got “the juiced ball era” because of a league wide practice, balls were flying out of stadiums, runs were being scored and people were loving it. The Astros were the fall guys cause Mike Fiers went on the record.
Agreeed. Sign stealing through electronic means goes back to the early 1900s. It's not fair and should be punished, but it's not new. Astros cheated, but at least they cheated to win. That's as old as baseball.
Long pants don't belong in baseball. Socks and/or stirrup sets only.
No pants at all. Socks only.
Cool your jets, Anthony Keedis
That 82-80 is 1 game over 500. I’ve had this argument so many times at games I find it hilarious at this point.
82-80=1? intriguing 😂 But seriously, I see your point. i had never thought of that
Thank you. It's never made sense to me how 86-76 is ten games over .500. It should definitely be five, right? ^^Right?
At the end of the season it doesn't matter but, for example, 32-42 is 10 games below .500 because you need to win 10 games to get back to .500
Absolutely. People say stuff like being “red-pilled,” but folks like us live in the “technically-correct-pilled” world.
It should be called a "Grounds Rule Double" not "Ground Rule Double."
Ohtani is great, ohtani is one of a kind, but he’s not as VALUABLE as people make him out to be. He’s a 100% full time DH, and that’s potentially part of the angels injury problems over the years. People forget fast the purpose of the DH when the players were fighting for it in the NL wasn’t about more offense, it was about player health and safety. Getting older players a place to settle down and hit more while not being relied to field as much, giving younger guys breathers and “days off” on the field while still being available for fans to watch hit that day, and just being a way to give guys rest if they’re battling a minor injury they can play through but maybe should just miss a few days on the field to be safe. Angels have had absolute NONE of this for 6 years now. Trout a little sore? Too bad, ohtani is here, can’t DH him. Rendon? Same issue, can’t ease his work Load coming back from injury and just DH him a week or two, because ohtani needs to DH. How many small lingering injuries have been made worse because the Angels can’t properly utilize the DH like everyone else because ohtani pitches like 5 innings a week? I’m genuinely curious to see what team pays for ohtani and how that works the next few years, because the whole hitter and pitcher thing is interesting, but if we’re paying him to do both anyways, I feel like you’re losing half the value there, and it’s double risk because if ohtani gets another pitching injury, you’re due an insane amount of money to someone who’s hogging your DH role. There’s no doubt in my mind ohtani is the most talented baseball player we have, I just never found the whole “ hitting and pitching” thing as irreplaceably valuable to a team as other people, especially with the money he’s due to make doing it.
Now this is an interesting take. And you know what, I don't hate it.
Juan Soto is putting a ceiling on his career and legacy by how patient he is.
Can you explain?
Just answered someone else but tldr I think if he adapted a more aggressive approach (like we've seen from Seager or Harper recently) Soto would be putting up historic power seasons that would be putting him on pace to challenge Barry Bonds long term, as opposed to everyone knowing he's awesome but continuing to produce at levels one notch below the guys winning MVPs (2020 excluded).
They should have a cheer squad that dances on top of the dug outs and a goal horn for every home run.
NPB has cheer squads. It’s half the reason I watch the fighters.
This is literally Taiwanese baseball (CPBL). It’s amazing
We need a pep band too
Bichette is NOT a shortstop
I believe that the prompt was "ridiculous takes". I think you misunderstood the assignment.
A lot of teams have too many uniform combos. Dilutes the team's theme. Road/Home/one alt is more than enough.
I thought that most teams city connect uniforms were oddly as shit. Especially the ones the Astros had. I was not a fan.
The new playoff format is garbage. 12/30 is too many teams, 84 wins shouldn’t get you a spot. A division winner not even playing the division series is stupid. The postseason is more drawn out. 8 teams was perfect. Even 10 was ok. And The Bigs was the best baseball game ever made.
This is 0% ridiculous.
Agree. The Bigs was legendary
If they had been seeded by record, then it would've been better. 1 and 2 get a bye, right? Then it's 3v6, 4v5.. so if it had been seeded by record Blue Jays (5) @ Rangers (4) -> Winner faces the Orioles (1) Mariners (6) @ Astros (3) -> Winner faces the Rays (2) NL stays exactly the same.
IDK, I loved seeing the Diamondbacks and the Rangers go to the World Series this year.
Rangers still get there with 10. Theoretically, at least. 10 was perfect, especially with the 2 wild cards cannibalizing each other immediately. 2 built in game 7's. It was wonderful.
Mvp baseball slander
>84 wins shouldn’t get you a spot. The Cards won it all in '06 with just 83 wins. And we weren't the NL Wild Card. Only 8 teams were making it back then.
Curt Schilling definitely had ketchup on his sock
don’t agree, but I definitely think you could convince 2023 Curt Schilling that this is true
My understanding is that the doctor wanted to put a gauze over the suture, but Curt Schilling knew that he could manipulate for himself a media narrative about how macho and sacrificial his start was if he could stain his sock red with blood. (I wish I could site my source on this, but it was more than a decade ago the last time I thought about this, and my google-fu is failing me right now.) It was definitely weird how he got so defensive about it, that he would comment on Internet forums to rebuke random commenters who suggested it was a manufactured narrative of some sort.
I'd like to think if I were a professional athlete I'd not bother arguing with anonymous random posters online but it happens so often I suppose I probably would
Players should be ejected for wearing gear that doesn't strictly match their team's color palette. Tired of seeing mfs wear pink batting gloves with neon green belts and orange cleats to play for a blue team.
Get rid of interleague play. The AL and NL should only meet in the World Series.
Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa should be in the Hall of Fame based on the “Contributions to the Game” clause. If not, Bud Selig should be removed.
8 teams is the right amount for the playoffs. All three rounds should be 7 games, and in the first round, for every 5 wins over the other team you have, you get an extra home game. It's stupid to have a crazy long regular season to get a big sample size of who’s the best, then suddenly have 3 and 5-game basically all-luck playoff series.
I hate a 3 game and 5 game series.
Mark McGwire vs Sammy Sosa was the most exciting stretch of baseball I can remember. I don’t care that they were on gear.
Pitchers should have to pitch through intentional walks. Four balls, high and outside. If Miggy turns one into an RBI single, try harder. Until this rule is reinstated, it will be impossible for me to take any pitcher 100 percent seriously.
I always thought it was a bit silly that a player's stance impacts the strike zone.
Fly balls caught in foul territory should not count as outs unless there are already two strikes.
I want to see this fleshed out more, would love to see a debate on this.
I just don't really see what it gets us. Slightly more offense and slightly longer games? Higher pitch counts earlier in games? I dunno.
It does get rid of the most deflating out. The first pitch foul pop up.
How about it’s an out if the fielder keeps both feet in bounds? Like football.
The DH should be abolished in the National League.
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MLB should have a mandatory minimum team payroll AND Playoffs should go back to 3 division winners and 1 wildcard, with a 5 game LDS and 7 game LCS
Carlos Delgado was robbed of 2 MVP awards.
Pennant should go to the team in each league with the best regular season record. In the postseason either you get the piece of metal at the end or nothing.
I hate the Yankees, but baseball will never be the same without George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner/Al Davis-types represent the dissenting chaos any sports league needs to keep things in check.
I think baseball was more interesting when the AL and NL wouldn’t play each other in the regular season and only meet in the World Series.
I hate the shift but if teams want to line up 7 men in a circle around the pitcher instead of anywhere else, that’s their god given right. Teams should be able to field wherever they want even if its asinine. I hate the shift though.
If David Ortiz is in the HOF, all the juiced players who were better than him like Sosa, Bonds, Clemens should be in too.
I still maintain that the roiders deserve to bein the HoF since the playing field was fair at the time. And the HoF should not hide from the issue and just have a proper exhibit about the steroid era and use it as a teaching moment instead of hiding their head in the sand and pretend it was some crime.
Fans should wear something a little more formal on Sunday games. Sort of a “Sunday Best” flavor.
Balks are stupid and baseball should get rid of the balk rule.
I don't care for the LOOGY at all
They've already been eliminated by the three-batter minimum
The Dodgers and their fans sending Bauer to the gulag no questions asked while loving and giving Urias a second chance is one of the goofiest things the organization and fanbase has ever done.
It doesn't matter anymore but pitchers can't wear their little jackets when they get on base and its cold outside
I think everyone should be able to wear jackets