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Jon
11:13
I'm team more ads on the field if it means less commercials
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:13
These results are pretty choatic
Roach
11:13
If you're the Braves, that had to be a promising Luke Jackson performance
Jake Cave
11:14
Would you trade a "boring" six games for a great Game 7?
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:14
I'd rather a great five or six games
Don
11:14
I get these guys were taught the game in a certain way and it’s hard to shake that stuff, but do we really have to constantly hear all this talk about how players are just one dimensional now and back in the day they could do it all? I doubt teams back then would’ve dominated teams now. Hell, they probably would’ve lost more to teams with these pitching, hitting, and defensive approaches. I doubt they were as well rounded then as they think they were too. Let’s get back to ground outs to second and bunts? I did really enjoy those formative years of baseball though, Rant over.
AvatarDavid Laurila
11:14
Rants are allowed.
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:14
Depends if I have to write a gamer for some of them!
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:14
A+ rant
RTJ
11:15
IMO the MLB playoff structure is just about right. As a fan of European soccer, the only thing missing from MLB is a relegation structure to keep it more interesting
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:15
The thing about Smoltz is that he was a Hall of Famer for pitching. He has a lot to contribute when he talks inside baseball things and the psychology/experience of being a pitcher.
Problem is, he also thinks he was a Hall of Famer for complaining.
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:15
The relegation talk needs to stop, imo. This is a professional league with lots at stake
Portlandus
11:16
That's fair, but I think it's an issue at both extremes - really good and bad/really bad teams are pretty much locked in place past June or so
AvatarDavid Laurila
11:16
Apropos of nothing, my hair was as long as Stanek's until I got it cut a few weeks ago,
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:16
But here's the thing: would the O's future be any better if they had to pretend they were competitive into June before finishing 25 games back instead of 50?
Portlandus
11:16
would like to see the best team in a bad division have some incentive to keep their foot on the gas in the second half
Fire Ken Tremendous
11:16
There have been 4 Ryne's in MLB history and half of them played this year. We're living through Peak Ryne!
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:17
Again, if there was a win component in revenue sharing...
TStats
11:17
Stanek is cool, splitty guys are totally underappreciated. An effective splitter is hard to throw/design.
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:18
Teams know who they are in all sports around 30-40% of the way through the season. On the field of play, they bust ass. What the FO/org does is up to them. I don't think baseball is better when a 20-40 team trades a prospect for a star.
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:18
Better band? Fastball or the Banana Splits
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:18
Slayer
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:18
THERES NO PITCH CALLED A SLAYER
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:18
NOT YET
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:19
Hey, i wonder if I can get the neural network to give me baseball themed band names
I've done band names generally
Jeremy
11:19
I don't have any Francophone sports channels in my cable package, so I can't check if there is a French language WS broadcast here in Canada.
AvatarDavid Laurila
11:19
Alain Usereau — good guy based on my interactions with him — is/was Canada’s primary French-language broadcaster for post-season games.
Roach
11:19
I bet that's what Mariano Rivera called his cutter
Kevin Z.
11:19
It’s getting late late
JamesD84
11:20
Since there's so much randomness in who wins the WS, I'd like to see some way to reward teams for having the best regular-season record.  MLS has a separate trophy for the team with the best regular-season record, and teams & fans do seem to care about it, though less than about the playoff championship.  Not sure how you would start something from scratch that everyone would care about, though.
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:20
A six-team playoff where that brackets like the NFL is a way.
I don't like it, but it's the logical next step
Guest
11:20
Why is being a professional a reason to not have relegation? Football all over Europe is professional, has relegation.
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:20
Because no one would pay to see relegated teams
Guest
11:21
People paid to see minor league teams
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:21
how much?
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:22
Meh, there need to be more baseball-themed band names to get the neural network on the right track
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:22
Look, I get it. We want more excitement. But when the Sox were awful, I didn't go to games at my convenience. I went to games at my convenience when good teams were coming to town. Take away good teams from coming to town and the crowds shrink. Also, ESPN gets a national schedule in advance.
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