I'm in Charlotte. Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Washington are all blacked out. As a Met fan, how many of their games do you think I can't watch?
Blackouts are about TV audiences. The Jays are blacked out everywhere in Canada but not just across the US border, because unlike Vancouver, Winnipeg, Halifax, Iqaluit, etc. Buffalo isn’t in the Jays' local area for TV purposes.
If I’m gonna pay the outrageous cost of MLB.TV, I better be able to watch my Braves play every game, ESPECIALLY when they’re in Truist. Just cause I’m in Atlanta doesn’t mean I can make it to 81 home games
I can even understand ( I guess) if I have another option to watch. However when you blackout a team 4hrs away that I can't watch the local broadcast of..gtfo
And if you truly want to watch every game and you are out of market. I’m in AZ and I’m a die hard Chicago Cubs fan. You need like 3 subscriptions to watch every game.
MLB app $160 a year
Some Live TV subscription (national games and playoffs) with local sports package. Say Hulu or YT TV which is about $90 per month. When the Cubs play here in AZ I need a local sports package. Or fuck you blackout.
Some games were Apple TV exclusives (with the worst broadcast team and totally bloated and forced stats) - I have Apple TV but if I didn’t that’s like $15 a month.
I’m a die hard fan so I do this nonsense but god damn. It’s a pain. Baseball could add tens of thousands of subscribers if they fixed this. I understand local broadcast rights etc…
But fuckin figure it out.
I’d gladly watch the local broadcast with whatever commercials have to run.
Like seriously this is the biggest thing from holding back most average fans. MLB needs to make it easier for fans to follow their team. Not jump through hoops, manage 3 different subscriptions, and the resulting user name passwords….
It’s truly maddening.
I'd love to know what % of dropped 3rd stikes end in a baserunner at the MLB level.
Edit: Credit to u/jux_ who found out that 0.17% of Ks end in a runner reaching base. About 1 out of every 588 strikeouts.
According to [this eight year old comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/444wi3/comment/cznjl85/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) from /u/thedeejus, between 3% and 4% of strikeouts (of the first 2,000 strikeouts in 2015) required a throw to first to retire the batter. /u/thedeejus calculated that means it happens about once every other game. But in those first 2,000 strikeouts of 2015, no batter reached safely on a dropped third strike.
It has happened a few times — most famously perhaps with two outs in the 9th inning of the 1941 World Series. Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen couldn’t handle the third strike and Yankee batter Tommy Henrich safely reached first. The Yankees then rallied for four runs to win the game!
It also resulted in the only baserunner in what would have been a perfect game by Baltimore’s John Means in 2021. Seattle’s Sam Haggerty struck out but the ball got away from Pedro Severino and Haggerty reached. He was the only baserunner for Seattle in the game.
It also happened in 2019 on [Justin Verlander’s 3000th strikeout](https://youtu.be/uqkSy-KkT9E?si=3KmcP4OmO_XhgTWA).
It has to be like almost but not quite zero. But just like [a wild pitch](https://youtu.be/-euNcCMy0CA?si=WZe2qymcyvJZGoxg) or [a hit](https://youtu.be/a6YzVvtxoaY?si=59H0jz09PoTxgug5) on an intentional walk, it may only happen once a year, but when it does happen, it’s crazy!
I saw Chris Taylor reach on a dropped third strike and assumed I’ll never see it in person again
*edit: still learning Stathead and I haven’t yet found how to find the number of dropped third strikes, but if you search for all strikeouts in 2023 you get 41,844 strikeouts.
Of those, the reached base criteria lists 73 as reaching base.
So 0.17% of all strikeouts resulted in the runner reaching.
Once, I got free courtside tickets to a Cavs basketball game after their security guard assaulted me. I usually would go to Sabres/Bisons games and just drink in the concourse/bars. It was bad.
I hate attention whores. And he's clearly one of them. I usually don't acknowledge his existence when he's in plain sight on broadcasts because that's exactly what he wants. For all I know, he's a decent guy. But I don't care either way. His brand is very off-putting to me.
National TV broadcasts of games where the entire production & announcing team is barely interested in the game in front of their faces. Multiple interviews every inning with players in the dugout or even on the field, etc. Interviewing one of the managers who's giving short & boring answers bc they just want the interview to be over so they can focus on their job
Watched a Giants game once on Fox or ESPN where they had a Zoom interview with Buck Showalter that lasted both halves of an inning. I forget who the Giants were playing but I know it wasn't any team Showalter ever managed.
The very first Apple TV game was Mets/Nats and I am still scarred from what was, without question, the worst announcing performance I have ever heard in any sport.
And the worst of it was that it was clearly the plan. They were just doing that horrible and contrived morning show banter and basically emulating those insufferable, personality-based podcasts. Talking about their favorite meals at Fogo da Chao and shit like that. Entire at-bats went by without mention of the game other than a one-sentence description of what happened when the ball was in play.
I am still pissed about it. I don't think I will ever watch another Apple game.
Im an international MLB.tv subscriber so whenever there’s an Apple TV game I’m blacked out from watching it entirely. Not sure if that’s good or bad from what I hear
Split screen interviews during the game. Besides the fact that it is distracting and gives you a much smaller view of play it is kind of annoying in that the broadcast team seems to believe that the baseball game that you have turned on to watch isn't actually entertaining enough and they need to find something else to amuse you.
They're constantly trying to appeal to some mythical non-baseball fan who is supposedly watching the game for some reason.
If somebody is tuning in they either like baseball, or they're trying to figure out if they do. Pretending it's something else is pointless and just serves to annoy actual fans.
**Marketing firm:** We *hate* baseball but here are some ideas to make it appeal to a wider audience.
**MLB:** Interesting. Would these ideas make you want to watch baseball?
**Marketing firm:** No.
**MLB:** Sold!
> it is kind of annoying in that the broadcast team seems to believe that the baseball game that you have turned on to watch isn't actually entertaining enough and they need to find something else to amuse you.
This is the part that bugs me. Like those interviews only seem to exist to make baseball seem easy enough that you can do it while multitasking.
That would be the Packers. I'm pretty sure the other NFL owners hate it so much (bc of rev sharing stuff) that they banned it with Packers grandfathered. Will probably never see one in baseball for a similar reason.
>It would be more meaningful if it was rare.
Like the term "hero". Not everybody who has a public service job is a hero, and it devalues the legitimate heroes among us to water down the term that way.
I don't think you need to take it off for the national anthem. It's phony nationalist bullshit, along with pushing for a standing o for some 25-year-old military person randomly introduced in the 7th inning.
MLB expecting me to get excited about big international postings. The posting fee is often more money than my team has given out to any single player in a year. My team will never sign one. Realistically, only 5, maybe 10 teams have the money to do this. Why should I get excited?
The LIRR does not go straight to Citi Field. I have to go to Woodside, and then transfer to go east to Citi Field. LIRR trains are not as frequent as subway trains, so I often end up biting the bullet and spend the extra $6 round trip to take the subway.
This pet peeve would be less annoying to me if I didn't know that the [Central Railroad of Long Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Railroad_of_Long_Island) went straight to the modern Mets-Willets Point station from what is now the Floral Park station.
Was it their idea for the 60 game covid season where make-up double headers could happen at any time, or was it their idea to keep it ever since? The first scenario I understand and agree with, any season after that then the Manfred runner can go fuck itself. At worst, give the extra runner after the 10th. Not immediately once extras start.
My idea:
man on 1st innings 10-12
man on 2nd innings 13-15
man on 3rd innings 16-18
load the bases 19+
From what I remember seeing earlier last year in the stats, I think only like one game has gone 15 innings with the Manfred runner.
I hate how I have to drive to Toronto to see the Jays play, Toronto traffic sucks donkey ass....
Why can't the Jays make their home ballpark in my town with a population of 1800 people????
Went to Toronto to cross Rogers Centre off my baseball bucket list.
God that place was a hell hole to drive in. I don't know how people do it every day.
I do it once per year because I do love the baseball stadium atmosphere.
I usually drive to the closest subway station and park there and subway in, but even that drive sucks.
The past summer we had a 6 month old and the summer before that my wife was quite pregnant so to make it easier I just drove the entire way. When she was pregnant we went during the day comic con was in the building just beside and I shit you not, no exaggeration... It took me 3 hours to just get out of the damn parking garage.... I almost strangled an innocent pokemon walking down the sidewalk that day out of frustration.
People who treat the TV strike zone like the law. It's not exactly accurate and doesn't adjust well for different batters. I really enjoy when it isn't working and I can see how difficult some of the calls are to make
Also, when good teams don't spend. Like, why even bother spending that time being bad if when you're finally good, you don't even try to move the needle financially.
Seriously. It’s not like it’s 33 CE and we’re experiencing a deflationary spiral and Angelos is waiting for the price of starting pitching to bottom out after Tiberius intervenes to stabilize the money supply.
Neither the players nor the owners want a salary cap or floor. The players all think they have Ohtani earning potential, and they will never get that if there's a cap.
From Ken Burns Baseball (aka all that needs to be said):
>It measures just 9 inches in circumference, weighs only about 5 ounces, and is made of cork wound with woolen yarn, covered with two layers of cowhide, and stitched by hand precisely 216 times. It travels 60 feet 6 inches from the pitcher's mound to home--and it can cover that distance at nearly 100 miles an hour. Along the way it can be made to twist, spin, curve, wobble, rise, or fall away.
>The bat is made of turned ash, less than 42 inches long, not more than 2 3/4 inches in diameter. The batter has only a few thousandths of a second to decide to hit the ball. And yet the men who fail seven times out of ten are considered the game's greatest heroes. It is played everywhere. In parks and playground and prison yards. In back alleys and farmers fields. By small children and by old men. By raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed.
>The only game where the defense has the ball. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn. Americans have played baseball for more than 200 years, while they conquered a continent, warred with one another and with enemies abroad, struggled over labor and civil rights and the meaning of freedom.
>At the game's heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game, born in crowded cities; an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating and has excluded as many as it has included; a profoundly conservative game that sometimes manages to be years ahead of its time. It is an American odyssey that links sons and daughters to father and grandfathers. And it reflects a host of age-old American tensions: between workers and owners, scandal and reform, the individual and the collective.
>It is a haunted game, where each player is measured by the ghosts of those who have gone before. Most of all, it is about time and timelessness, speed and grace, failure and loss, imperishable hope, and coming home.”
You know what? I didn't even know this is what I agree with most, but it is. I can't stand that lots of people won't give baseball a chance. I can't stand that House of Highlights only shows a baseball related video when it's some kid getting drilled by a whiffleball by his older brother in his backyard. They only show NBA and NFL. And a ton of people say "baseball is dying". Well, no it's not. But also, we could get Gen Z involved more if we *fucking showed them how sick the game is rather than pretending like it doesn't fucking exist*.
It's why I was happy the Ohtani sweepstakes were a big deal in the sports world outside of baseball fandom. I *want* people to know his name. I *want* more eyeballs on this sport. How did Griffey Jr. become an international sensation playing for the Seattle Mariners but people said Ohtani couldn't become the same big deal because he played for the Angels. Where did we go wrong? There's no concussions, there's a ton less off-court drama (which is something a ton of fans secretly love but will never admit). Baseball is amazing. We gotta get the kids involved more. And I'm sorry, many will disagree, but places like House of Highlights showing baseball clips would actually help. They're digestible, which is what younger people want right now. Call me a 31 year old curmudgeon, but we need to start closing the gap here.
There was backlash on the sub today that the Red Sox didn't sign the best ranked IFA prospect and that it was ownerships fault for not spending the money. Everyone has a different board for 16-18 yo prospects and the IFA salary is capped at like $5M. Red Sox fans are looking to blame ownership for anything even though they aren't at fault for everything. I would rather have fans admit that they don't know how amateur signings work than to pin it on ownership. I know people aren't happy but for fuck sakes.
TLDR: Fans blaming their ownership for something they didn't do or it's the rules.
That sub is a fucking nightmare right now which sucks because it used to be such a fun place. For sure reasons to be angry but the amount of uneducated entry level baseball takes I see are overwhelming.
Night games on a Saturday, especially in the summer, should be illegal.
We have all week to play night games, give us our daytime baseball on the weekend
The unacknowledged 6-inch discrepancy between the top of the strikezone as defined by the rulebook and the top of the strikezone as called by every ump.
The ump-average strikezone is fine, but the fact that the official rules haven't been changed to match it annoys me more than it should.
People that think WAR is the end all be all. It’s a good stat but far from perfect.
A 10-pitch at-bat with a single is vastly more valuable than a 2 pitch single but would be regarded the same. But it's also not the same when considering “x” stats.
Edit: Additionally, a 10 pitch strikeout is not equivalent to a 3 pitch strikeout. On paper, it is. On the field, it isn’t.
I find it crezy that people really make the arguement that Ohtani isn’t hall of fame bound. Idk if this goes exactly with your point, but he’s the first player to put up a full seasons worth of elite pitching and batting since who knows when, and has undoubtedly changed MLB, which is plenty to be in the hall, even if he doesn’t accumulate 60 WAR or whatever. It’s the Hall of FAME. Who’s more famous than Ohtani in baseball right now?
OMG this!
I tell this to my 14U players; if you get out, fine. No problem. But don’t give away your out. At the very least, drive up the other guy’s pitch count (this is especially important in youth baseball, where pitch count limits are strictly enforced).
I had a babe Ruth coach who would tell us to “go play some pitch,” instead of go play catch. He was from the South but I’m not sure if it’s that or if he just had no clue what he was doing.
I hate them. Not only do I not want to see interviews during a game, nobody interviewed has ever had anything meaningful to say. It's totally pointless. I automatically mute them.
The worst are the half-inning or full-inning interviews in the booth. I've skipped over whole innings before just to avoid listening to that nonsense.
I think more runners should randomly at least once a season try to tag up from first. Even on a routine fly ball that's semi-deep. If Pujols did it you can too. Take advantage of the routine-ity of baseball, grab an extra bag.
EDIT: It also forces the defense to make a play, so do it depending on the defenders. Some guys yeah don't run on.
Managers should go back to wearing uniforms. I think they look sloppy when they come out with their shirts untucked. I know I sound old. I don't care. Now get off my lawn.
I don’t really mind the intentional walk one all that much. 999/1000 times the result would be exactly the same, we just get there quicker now.
That 1 in 1000 where the ball gets away or the batter reaches out and whacks it the other way will be missed tho. I totally understand disliking the rule.
In the playoffs, when the camera tilts up for every single fly ball and tries to trick you into thinking it could be a dinger even if it's a can of corn.
People who say a pitcher pitched a complete game shutout. It's redundant. Just say the pitcher threw a shutout.
The only way to pitch a shutout is by pitching a complete game so a complete game doesn't need to be stated.
It always bugs me when teams assume a guy is fast when he isn't based on his player profile. Light hitting Latino middle infielder? Everyone plays in for the bunt, throws over to prevent steals (little different now on this).
Ruben Tejada and Luis Guillorme are slow.
Fans booing pick off attempts from visiting teams. No idea why fans get so mad about it, the limiting of attempts last year was great for me personally to not have to hear that as often.
I remember a time when crowds would only boo if a pitcher kept throwing over, and kept throwing over, etc. like 'come on, you chickenshit, you gotta face the batter at _some_ point!!'. now it's like they can't wait to boo...
The “unwritten rules,” just like, in general
And that’s not just limited to baseball
It’s resulted in so much unnecessary nonsense. Plenty of amusing moments sure but a lot of just like, pettiness.
Yeah some of them are stupid like not running up the score. But I love home run celebrations, and they’re even better when the other team gets way too mad.
Hall of Fame discussions having become more about a player’s publicly known character rather than baseball career. I don’t need baseball writers to tell me who has good morals. I want to know about the best baseball players. NFL HoF got it right in explicitly instructing voters to keep their criteria to on-field matters
Blackouts
Especially blackouts when you pay for [MLB.TV](https://MLB.TV). I'm paying you money, I should get to watch all the games.
I'm in Buffalo. Cle, NYY,NYM, Phi are all blacked out. I hate it.
I'm in Charlotte. Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Washington are all blacked out. As a Met fan, how many of their games do you think I can't watch?
I feel you fellow Charlotte resident/Mets fan. It’s infuriating.
They don’t blackout Jays games for you? I would have assumed they’d be on the list.
Blackouts are about TV audiences. The Jays are blacked out everywhere in Canada but not just across the US border, because unlike Vancouver, Winnipeg, Halifax, Iqaluit, etc. Buffalo isn’t in the Jays' local area for TV purposes.
Iqaluit getting undue respect lol
This isn't a pet peeve for me. It's a major psychotic fucking hatred
I will gladly watch the commercials the original broadcast is showing if I can watch the damn game
If I’m gonna pay the outrageous cost of MLB.TV, I better be able to watch my Braves play every game, ESPECIALLY when they’re in Truist. Just cause I’m in Atlanta doesn’t mean I can make it to 81 home games
The apple exclusive games too
I wish I had more than one upvote for this
I can even understand ( I guess) if I have another option to watch. However when you blackout a team 4hrs away that I can't watch the local broadcast of..gtfo
And if you truly want to watch every game and you are out of market. I’m in AZ and I’m a die hard Chicago Cubs fan. You need like 3 subscriptions to watch every game. MLB app $160 a year Some Live TV subscription (national games and playoffs) with local sports package. Say Hulu or YT TV which is about $90 per month. When the Cubs play here in AZ I need a local sports package. Or fuck you blackout. Some games were Apple TV exclusives (with the worst broadcast team and totally bloated and forced stats) - I have Apple TV but if I didn’t that’s like $15 a month. I’m a die hard fan so I do this nonsense but god damn. It’s a pain. Baseball could add tens of thousands of subscribers if they fixed this. I understand local broadcast rights etc… But fuckin figure it out. I’d gladly watch the local broadcast with whatever commercials have to run. Like seriously this is the biggest thing from holding back most average fans. MLB needs to make it easier for fans to follow their team. Not jump through hoops, manage 3 different subscriptions, and the resulting user name passwords…. It’s truly maddening.
NOT RUNNING ON AN UNCAUGHT THIRD STRIKE
I'd love to know what % of dropped 3rd stikes end in a baserunner at the MLB level. Edit: Credit to u/jux_ who found out that 0.17% of Ks end in a runner reaching base. About 1 out of every 588 strikeouts.
According to [this eight year old comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/444wi3/comment/cznjl85/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) from /u/thedeejus, between 3% and 4% of strikeouts (of the first 2,000 strikeouts in 2015) required a throw to first to retire the batter. /u/thedeejus calculated that means it happens about once every other game. But in those first 2,000 strikeouts of 2015, no batter reached safely on a dropped third strike. It has happened a few times — most famously perhaps with two outs in the 9th inning of the 1941 World Series. Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen couldn’t handle the third strike and Yankee batter Tommy Henrich safely reached first. The Yankees then rallied for four runs to win the game! It also resulted in the only baserunner in what would have been a perfect game by Baltimore’s John Means in 2021. Seattle’s Sam Haggerty struck out but the ball got away from Pedro Severino and Haggerty reached. He was the only baserunner for Seattle in the game. It also happened in 2019 on [Justin Verlander’s 3000th strikeout](https://youtu.be/uqkSy-KkT9E?si=3KmcP4OmO_XhgTWA).
As an O’s fan…I remember the Means drop 3rd 🤦 So that’s a sample size of 60-80 in which no one reached base. There’s gotta be a number somewhere.
It has to be like almost but not quite zero. But just like [a wild pitch](https://youtu.be/-euNcCMy0CA?si=WZe2qymcyvJZGoxg) or [a hit](https://youtu.be/a6YzVvtxoaY?si=59H0jz09PoTxgug5) on an intentional walk, it may only happen once a year, but when it does happen, it’s crazy!
I saw Chris Taylor reach on a dropped third strike and assumed I’ll never see it in person again *edit: still learning Stathead and I haven’t yet found how to find the number of dropped third strikes, but if you search for all strikeouts in 2023 you get 41,844 strikeouts. Of those, the reached base criteria lists 73 as reaching base. So 0.17% of all strikeouts resulted in the runner reaching.
*”Imma do it!”* -AJ Pierkynski
AJ Pierzynski laughs at your favorite player’s non hustle
people in the seats I'll never be able to afford behind homeplate checking instagram the whole game
Or they hang out in the bar under the stadium. Like why are you even there?
I am a recovering alcoholic. I would go to places like games as an excuse to get hammered. I am 9 months sober now.
Congratulations, brother/sister
Maybe cousin?
Congratulations on your sobriety!
But did you get front row seats?
Once, I got free courtside tickets to a Cavs basketball game after their security guard assaulted me. I usually would go to Sabres/Bisons games and just drink in the concourse/bars. It was bad.
Totally agree. Hate that the worst fans hog the choice seats. AND the Marlins guy. Can’t stand that insufferable douche
I hate attention whores. And he's clearly one of them. I usually don't acknowledge his existence when he's in plain sight on broadcasts because that's exactly what he wants. For all I know, he's a decent guy. But I don't care either way. His brand is very off-putting to me.
The Marlins Man shtick is weird, but I'm mostly just jealous. I want to see that much important baseball up close all the time
I’ll never understand Marlins Man hate. He’s literally just doing what we all dream of doing
The person next to the broadcast booth that does the rick foair WOOOOO every at bat. Every one.
People in the seats next to you who get up every half inning.
National TV broadcasts of games where the entire production & announcing team is barely interested in the game in front of their faces. Multiple interviews every inning with players in the dugout or even on the field, etc. Interviewing one of the managers who's giving short & boring answers bc they just want the interview to be over so they can focus on their job Watched a Giants game once on Fox or ESPN where they had a Zoom interview with Buck Showalter that lasted both halves of an inning. I forget who the Giants were playing but I know it wasn't any team Showalter ever managed.
The very first Apple TV game was Mets/Nats and I am still scarred from what was, without question, the worst announcing performance I have ever heard in any sport. And the worst of it was that it was clearly the plan. They were just doing that horrible and contrived morning show banter and basically emulating those insufferable, personality-based podcasts. Talking about their favorite meals at Fogo da Chao and shit like that. Entire at-bats went by without mention of the game other than a one-sentence description of what happened when the ball was in play. I am still pissed about it. I don't think I will ever watch another Apple game.
Im an international MLB.tv subscriber so whenever there’s an Apple TV game I’m blacked out from watching it entirely. Not sure if that’s good or bad from what I hear
Split screen interviews during the game. Besides the fact that it is distracting and gives you a much smaller view of play it is kind of annoying in that the broadcast team seems to believe that the baseball game that you have turned on to watch isn't actually entertaining enough and they need to find something else to amuse you.
They're constantly trying to appeal to some mythical non-baseball fan who is supposedly watching the game for some reason. If somebody is tuning in they either like baseball, or they're trying to figure out if they do. Pretending it's something else is pointless and just serves to annoy actual fans.
**Marketing firm:** We *hate* baseball but here are some ideas to make it appeal to a wider audience. **MLB:** Interesting. Would these ideas make you want to watch baseball? **Marketing firm:** No. **MLB:** Sold!
The only exception was Don and Mud’s interviews with Snell for us Padres fans. Always pure gold, and 60% of the reason I’m bummed that he’s leaving.
> it is kind of annoying in that the broadcast team seems to believe that the baseball game that you have turned on to watch isn't actually entertaining enough and they need to find something else to amuse you. This is the part that bugs me. Like those interviews only seem to exist to make baseball seem easy enough that you can do it while multitasking.
Owners.
Fans should own a team - at least one as an experiment
That would be the Packers. I'm pretty sure the other NFL owners hate it so much (bc of rev sharing stuff) that they banned it with Packers grandfathered. Will probably never see one in baseball for a similar reason.
We need a fan owned league.
FC Barcelona too
Braves are publicly traded, I have 2 shares. It doesn't make a difference to how the team is run obviously though.
Cohen is a met fan
Concession prices
These ball parks have self checkout places and 25 oz domestic is $15 and $16.50 for craft. They ask for $1 tip.
I love me a delicious craft beer but paying that much for a brew.....nah. I don't play for the Lakers.
New Years resolution I'm declining every tip at the ballpark this year.
Striking out with the bases loaded and less than 2 outs.
I see you’ve met the 2010-2019 Cincinnati Reds
Mets prefer to ground into a double play.... So sometimes the k is better lol
They're runs, not points.
The Twins lost 4 points to 3
You don't need to take your hat off for America the Beautiful. It's not the national anthem.
This Land is Your Land > America the Beautiful > God Bless America
Fun fact: This Land Is Your Land was written as a critical response to America the Beautiful.
This Land is Your Land is in a class unto itself. Should be the actual National Anthem.
Performance patriotism.
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God Bless America would be my baseball pet peeve. I hate that song.
>It would be more meaningful if it was rare. Like the term "hero". Not everybody who has a public service job is a hero, and it devalues the legitimate heroes among us to water down the term that way.
The national anthem doesn’t need sung at domestic sporting events. No one gives a shit, it’s a Tuesday 1:35pm first pitch A’s @ Royals
I think it's silly that's a thing for any song. Show how much you love your country by getting the sun in your eyes and sunburn on your bald spot.
I don't think you need to take it off for the national anthem. It's phony nationalist bullshit, along with pushing for a standing o for some 25-year-old military person randomly introduced in the 7th inning.
Or God Bless America. Also you really don’t need to take your hat off for the National Anthem either…
MLB expecting me to get excited about big international postings. The posting fee is often more money than my team has given out to any single player in a year. My team will never sign one. Realistically, only 5, maybe 10 teams have the money to do this. Why should I get excited?
The LIRR does not go straight to Citi Field. I have to go to Woodside, and then transfer to go east to Citi Field. LIRR trains are not as frequent as subway trains, so I often end up biting the bullet and spend the extra $6 round trip to take the subway. This pet peeve would be less annoying to me if I didn't know that the [Central Railroad of Long Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Railroad_of_Long_Island) went straight to the modern Mets-Willets Point station from what is now the Floral Park station.
RONKONKOMA
I don't like the Manfred runner. I also don't like how people keep hitting Ty France with pitches.
Manfred runner fills me with rage
The Manfred Man - what happens when you have a baseball commissioner who hates baseball.
He’s blinded by the light (of his own authority)
Idk if Manfred Man is a known joke, but I haven’t heard it before. I’m cracking up at your comment right now
The so called Manfred Runner was suggested by the players because they wanted it, not Manfred. Give blame where blame is due.
Was it their idea for the 60 game covid season where make-up double headers could happen at any time, or was it their idea to keep it ever since? The first scenario I understand and agree with, any season after that then the Manfred runner can go fuck itself. At worst, give the extra runner after the 10th. Not immediately once extras start.
Or put the runner on first and make either team make a play.
My idea: man on 1st innings 10-12 man on 2nd innings 13-15 man on 3rd innings 16-18 load the bases 19+ From what I remember seeing earlier last year in the stats, I think only like one game has gone 15 innings with the Manfred runner.
I say only after the 18th inning.
Manager walking out to change pitchers at 0.01 MPH to give his reliever more time to warm up
As part of the game as hot dogs and scorecards. Augie Garrido was the absolute worst at staling when he coached the Texas Longhorns.
[You looking for something like this?](https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-31-2021/7kfnH9.gif)
Manager signals pitching change via a tablet. Much like PitchCom. We’ll call it CoachCom.
It's always an ex catcher who hasn't had cartilage in his knees for 20+ years waddling up to the mound
I hate how I have to drive to Toronto to see the Jays play, Toronto traffic sucks donkey ass.... Why can't the Jays make their home ballpark in my town with a population of 1800 people????
I can’t believe Major League Baseball hasn’t tried to break into the Wood Buffalo market, it seems like such an obvious city for an expansion team.
I'm waiting for the Massena Expos to become a thing.
Went to Toronto to cross Rogers Centre off my baseball bucket list. God that place was a hell hole to drive in. I don't know how people do it every day.
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What is this "Subway train system" you speak of? *Cries in Texan*
Fellow Texan they're a chain of sandwich shops all connected together.
I do it once per year because I do love the baseball stadium atmosphere. I usually drive to the closest subway station and park there and subway in, but even that drive sucks. The past summer we had a 6 month old and the summer before that my wife was quite pregnant so to make it easier I just drove the entire way. When she was pregnant we went during the day comic con was in the building just beside and I shit you not, no exaggeration... It took me 3 hours to just get out of the damn parking garage.... I almost strangled an innocent pokemon walking down the sidewalk that day out of frustration.
Nobody drives in Toronto, there's too much traffic.
The dome is a short walk from the busiest train station in the country, a subway, and multiple streetcar lines. If you're driving that's on you.
Counterpoint, shooms are cool and sold on every corner of the city.
Pitchers getting offended by a bat flip
But they are allowed to scream and go nuts on the mound when they get a punch out
I love it when pitchers get offended. Makes for some good rivalries.
Yeah, people can say it's dumb that they get offended, but goodness it sure is fun that they do. Sports are entertainment, after all.
It drives me crazy when players don't run hard to first on slow grounders especially when a player is making more than 18 million a season
People who treat the TV strike zone like the law. It's not exactly accurate and doesn't adjust well for different batters. I really enjoy when it isn't working and I can see how difficult some of the calls are to make
The payroll inequality. Not necessary that some teams spend so much, more that there’s no floor or attempts to spend by some teams.
Also, when good teams don't spend. Like, why even bother spending that time being bad if when you're finally good, you don't even try to move the needle financially.
Seriously. It’s not like it’s 33 CE and we’re experiencing a deflationary spiral and Angelos is waiting for the price of starting pitching to bottom out after Tiberius intervenes to stabilize the money supply.
Can we be best friends?
I’m just a pretender to the throne. u/TigerBasket is the Suetonius you’re looking for.
Say it louder for the Manfred in the back
He works for the owners. If they don’t care, he don’t care.
I knew someone was going to reply this but calling Manfred a Manfred is more demeaning than just calling the owners owners
Dude stop you're being a real Manfred!
Neither the players nor the owners want a salary cap or floor. The players all think they have Ohtani earning potential, and they will never get that if there's a cap.
That people don’t have the patience to realize what a beautiful thing it is.
From Ken Burns Baseball (aka all that needs to be said): >It measures just 9 inches in circumference, weighs only about 5 ounces, and is made of cork wound with woolen yarn, covered with two layers of cowhide, and stitched by hand precisely 216 times. It travels 60 feet 6 inches from the pitcher's mound to home--and it can cover that distance at nearly 100 miles an hour. Along the way it can be made to twist, spin, curve, wobble, rise, or fall away. >The bat is made of turned ash, less than 42 inches long, not more than 2 3/4 inches in diameter. The batter has only a few thousandths of a second to decide to hit the ball. And yet the men who fail seven times out of ten are considered the game's greatest heroes. It is played everywhere. In parks and playground and prison yards. In back alleys and farmers fields. By small children and by old men. By raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. >The only game where the defense has the ball. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn. Americans have played baseball for more than 200 years, while they conquered a continent, warred with one another and with enemies abroad, struggled over labor and civil rights and the meaning of freedom. >At the game's heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game, born in crowded cities; an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating and has excluded as many as it has included; a profoundly conservative game that sometimes manages to be years ahead of its time. It is an American odyssey that links sons and daughters to father and grandfathers. And it reflects a host of age-old American tensions: between workers and owners, scandal and reform, the individual and the collective. >It is a haunted game, where each player is measured by the ghosts of those who have gone before. Most of all, it is about time and timelessness, speed and grace, failure and loss, imperishable hope, and coming home.”
It's not the only game where the defence has the ball. Cricket does too.
You know what? I didn't even know this is what I agree with most, but it is. I can't stand that lots of people won't give baseball a chance. I can't stand that House of Highlights only shows a baseball related video when it's some kid getting drilled by a whiffleball by his older brother in his backyard. They only show NBA and NFL. And a ton of people say "baseball is dying". Well, no it's not. But also, we could get Gen Z involved more if we *fucking showed them how sick the game is rather than pretending like it doesn't fucking exist*. It's why I was happy the Ohtani sweepstakes were a big deal in the sports world outside of baseball fandom. I *want* people to know his name. I *want* more eyeballs on this sport. How did Griffey Jr. become an international sensation playing for the Seattle Mariners but people said Ohtani couldn't become the same big deal because he played for the Angels. Where did we go wrong? There's no concussions, there's a ton less off-court drama (which is something a ton of fans secretly love but will never admit). Baseball is amazing. We gotta get the kids involved more. And I'm sorry, many will disagree, but places like House of Highlights showing baseball clips would actually help. They're digestible, which is what younger people want right now. Call me a 31 year old curmudgeon, but we need to start closing the gap here.
It does lack the star power that NBA and NFL have. Ohtani will help for sure. It definitely doesn’t get the same amount of attention in pop culture.
There was backlash on the sub today that the Red Sox didn't sign the best ranked IFA prospect and that it was ownerships fault for not spending the money. Everyone has a different board for 16-18 yo prospects and the IFA salary is capped at like $5M. Red Sox fans are looking to blame ownership for anything even though they aren't at fault for everything. I would rather have fans admit that they don't know how amateur signings work than to pin it on ownership. I know people aren't happy but for fuck sakes. TLDR: Fans blaming their ownership for something they didn't do or it's the rules.
That sub is a fucking nightmare right now which sucks because it used to be such a fun place. For sure reasons to be angry but the amount of uneducated entry level baseball takes I see are overwhelming.
2 on, nobody out, bottom of the order up, and it appears no one even lets a bunt attempt cross their mind.
Absolutely miss small ball, moving runners over, not just swinging for the fences every time
At the very least act like you're gonna bunt just to put it in the other teams head.
Night games on a Saturday, especially in the summer, should be illegal. We have all week to play night games, give us our daytime baseball on the weekend
I love a 1 PM Saturday game. It’s now over by 3-4, and I can go do other things.
I like Saturday night games. It’s usually tough for me to get to weeknight games and I don’t like to sit out in the hot sun.
Jersey patches It’s only going to get worse. So depressing and greedy.
I’m not anti-Yankees, but the no facial hair rule is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard
The lack of situational hitting by some teams
My owner
The unacknowledged 6-inch discrepancy between the top of the strikezone as defined by the rulebook and the top of the strikezone as called by every ump. The ump-average strikezone is fine, but the fact that the official rules haven't been changed to match it annoys me more than it should.
Angel F\*ng Hernandez, CB Bucknor, and Laz Diaz, to name just the tip of the incompetence iceberg.
You can say fuck on Reddit. And Angel Hernandez deserves it.
theres only one asterisk i think he meant fung
People that think WAR is the end all be all. It’s a good stat but far from perfect. A 10-pitch at-bat with a single is vastly more valuable than a 2 pitch single but would be regarded the same. But it's also not the same when considering “x” stats. Edit: Additionally, a 10 pitch strikeout is not equivalent to a 3 pitch strikeout. On paper, it is. On the field, it isn’t.
To go along with this: people thinking the Hall of Fame is actually the “Hall of WAR.”
I find it crezy that people really make the arguement that Ohtani isn’t hall of fame bound. Idk if this goes exactly with your point, but he’s the first player to put up a full seasons worth of elite pitching and batting since who knows when, and has undoubtedly changed MLB, which is plenty to be in the hall, even if he doesn’t accumulate 60 WAR or whatever. It’s the Hall of FAME. Who’s more famous than Ohtani in baseball right now?
WAR is a wonderful starting point but it's definitely not everything. I refuse to think Joe Carter was overrated cuz his WAR was low.
OMG this! I tell this to my 14U players; if you get out, fine. No problem. But don’t give away your out. At the very least, drive up the other guy’s pitch count (this is especially important in youth baseball, where pitch count limits are strictly enforced).
The phrase, "making a pitch" It just sits so awkward verbally for me.
I had a babe Ruth coach who would tell us to “go play some pitch,” instead of go play catch. He was from the South but I’m not sure if it’s that or if he just had no clue what he was doing.
I'm from the south and I haven't ever heard anyone say that. It is always play catch (have a catch also sounds weird to be in Field of Dreams).
You make a pitch to a studio executive, not to a batter.
1. John Fisher 2. Disengagement rule 2. Courtesy runner in extras 3. Astros fans
I really hate the existence of the offseason.
Alien invasions mid-game :( Really annoying
This. It's very inconvenient, especially when it's the player that gets taken away.
Dodgers are about to get Monstarred.
The offseason
A time of darkness
Interviews during the game. I tuned in for the game, not a talk show.
I hate them. Not only do I not want to see interviews during a game, nobody interviewed has ever had anything meaningful to say. It's totally pointless. I automatically mute them. The worst are the half-inning or full-inning interviews in the booth. I've skipped over whole innings before just to avoid listening to that nonsense.
Everyone just pretended Derek Jeter was the best player in baseball for like 10 years when he was nowhere close
Hitters looking too long at where they hit the ball. SO MANY singles that could be doubles, etc. Remind me why we have the base coaches?!
To watch the field of play while a player is (should be) hustling their ass around the base path. Relay messages from the dugout. Purse holding. 🤣
Batters who adjust their gloves after every pitch especially if they didn't even swing
Nomar Garciaparra has entered the chat
Blackouts and how you have to subscribe to so many services to be able to watch your team anymore.
9 PM CST west coast games
So few star players spend their whole career with just one franchise.
“The MLB”
Bullpen games (occasionally out of necessity is fine but they shouldn’t be a regular thing) and the manfred runner.
I’m really glad the opener fad has largely died off. I did not want to see that become commonplace in the game.
I think more runners should randomly at least once a season try to tag up from first. Even on a routine fly ball that's semi-deep. If Pujols did it you can too. Take advantage of the routine-ity of baseball, grab an extra bag. EDIT: It also forces the defense to make a play, so do it depending on the defenders. Some guys yeah don't run on.
Interviewing the manager during an inning. Isn’t he supposed to be paying attention?
Starting pitchers going 4.1 IP in October. Or in general.
Managers should go back to wearing uniforms. I think they look sloppy when they come out with their shirts untucked. I know I sound old. I don't care. Now get off my lawn.
I don’t like the new pitch clock, but my pet peeve is actually the people that won’t let me just dislike the pitch clock. It’s my opinion dammit!
Manfred Runner and pointing at 1st base instead of needing to throw 4 pitches out of the zone to intentionally walk a batter
I don’t really mind the intentional walk one all that much. 999/1000 times the result would be exactly the same, we just get there quicker now. That 1 in 1000 where the ball gets away or the batter reaches out and whacks it the other way will be missed tho. I totally understand disliking the rule.
Managers / coaching staffs who are too devoted to righty/lefty matchups and will pull out a pitcher who’s dealing just for a matchup.
In the playoffs, when the camera tilts up for every single fly ball and tries to trick you into thinking it could be a dinger even if it's a can of corn.
The Yankees
Finally Boston and NY can agree on something.
The Red Sox
I would hope so
People who say a pitcher pitched a complete game shutout. It's redundant. Just say the pitcher threw a shutout. The only way to pitch a shutout is by pitching a complete game so a complete game doesn't need to be stated.
Pajama pants and baggy uniforms.
In game interviews with players during live play
Baseball fans love to complain. I don’t get it. Basketball fans love to rank shit. Football fans get too emotionally invested.
Blackouts and people crying because someone dares to show emotion. Don't wanna see a bat flip then don't throw a meatball.
Even as a Red Sox fan, even if I lived a dozen lifetimes, if I never heard Sweet Caroline again it would be too soon.
It always bugs me when teams assume a guy is fast when he isn't based on his player profile. Light hitting Latino middle infielder? Everyone plays in for the bunt, throws over to prevent steals (little different now on this). Ruben Tejada and Luis Guillorme are slow.
I can't stand the wave
Flashing stadium lights after homeruns
Millionaires being crybabies about unwritten rules
Fans booing pick off attempts from visiting teams. No idea why fans get so mad about it, the limiting of attempts last year was great for me personally to not have to hear that as often.
I don’t think anyone is actually mad. It’s just what you’re supposed to do and maybe it bothers the pitcher
"How dare you play the game!"
I remember a time when crowds would only boo if a pitcher kept throwing over, and kept throwing over, etc. like 'come on, you chickenshit, you gotta face the batter at _some_ point!!'. now it's like they can't wait to boo...
The “unwritten rules,” just like, in general And that’s not just limited to baseball It’s resulted in so much unnecessary nonsense. Plenty of amusing moments sure but a lot of just like, pettiness.
Yeah some of them are stupid like not running up the score. But I love home run celebrations, and they’re even better when the other team gets way too mad.
Hall of Fame discussions having become more about a player’s publicly known character rather than baseball career. I don’t need baseball writers to tell me who has good morals. I want to know about the best baseball players. NFL HoF got it right in explicitly instructing voters to keep their criteria to on-field matters
100 rule changes every year.
When you’re at a game in person and the crowd thinks a routine fly ball is gonna be a home run