No he didn't. Bryce slash line: .249/.393/.496. Ops .889Quote:
Originally Posted by Choctaw Dawg
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No he didn't. Bryce slash line: .249/.393/.496. Ops .889Quote:
Originally Posted by Choctaw Dawg
If you incentivize balls in play and punish strikeouts you won?t have 10 pitch AB?s. Game moves quicker and has more action. The problem is sitting around bored watching the pitcher and catcher throw it back and forth while batter slowly walks back to the dugout or to 1B. HR?s are fun, but a couple fun 10 seconds over 3 hours does not a good product make.Quote:
Originally Posted by IMissJack
Making the umps call balls and strikes the way the did in the old days, as the rules are written (letters to the knees) would force hitters to swing instead of waiting for a perfect pitch, since the actual strike zone called today is small. Watch old film, and the catchers are barely squatting behind the batter sometimes.
Your right- I am over emphasizing that Uggla only became garbage in Atlanta, when it mattered to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
But, Uggla was getting paid like a marquee player. Where Lemke was clutch in the post season and not paid to lead the team in RBIs
Now I am throwing an ace. Gary Sheffield is my guy. He struckout fewer times in 22 years of glorious baseball than the new normal Uggla in 11 years. Comparing marquee salary to marquee salary.
I'd take a team of 9 ATL Lemkes and beat your team of 9 ATL Ugglas 9 out of 10 times. FWar be damned.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
You better have 9 of Pedro Martinez bc you wouldn't score a lick. Want me to compare their career hits, walks, extra base hits? Lemke was a good glove and that's it. He was a black hole on offenseQuote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
What a lot of you guys miss in the Ks are bad are that they only count as one out. Case in point, the 2 being discussed here...
Lemke in career 3664 PA, lemke had 94 GIDP.
Uggla in career 5509 PA, uggla had 75 GIDP
So in 1845 less PA, lemke hit into 19 more double plays. Lemke got 2 outs at a much higher clip... maybe more Ks by Lemke would've been a good thing
What this guy says. MLB is falling into the trap of the instant grits, instant news, impatient society we have today add in that baseball is a thinking mans game, you already eliminate a large swath of the population as viewers. Those clowns aren?t watching any way. Why piss off the loyal fans you do have to cater to those who will never attend even if you allow the defense to hit the guy with the ball for an out or allow the hitter to carry the bat and knock the throws away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
TV coverage was the biggest factor in baseball attendance. Baseball is played during the hottest time of the year and the clients most apt to attend are 40+. As they age the AC and Couch start to look more appealing than 95 degree stands. It still amazes me that they still build professional sports stadiums south of the Ohio river without some sort of retractable roof. Houston routinely air conditions the stadium all day and just opens up for the game. Makes it much more bearable to watch in the sweltering summer months.
Bottom line is yes, MLB must get creative but they cannot try to cater to an audience that never will attend.
Very respectable statement and mostly on point. You have stated the heat for a summer game which is on point. I would like to state that extending the games to assure commercials are shown extends the time period being fried to death by summer heat. There might be a threshold of exposure to elements. Shorten the games means shortening heat exposure and maybe more will attend. Remember while commercials are being shown, viewers just leave the television and do something else while the attendees are imprisoned waiting for the game to proceed? Your last statement has credibility but the reality is the young have rejected baseball in a sustainable manner and the graybeards are dieing off. Baseball can not sustain itself buy catering to the dieing off and not their potential replacements? Summer basketball and soccer are harvesting the replacements?Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
Check out this article on the nature of soccer fans in Atlanta....maybe baseball teams need a roof and move to the suburbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by coachnorm
American cities are not the same demographics as the past. Not a reason to change baseball, in my opinion. I went to an MLS game in northern New Jersey, the crowd is like another nation, with another language with some familiar things still present.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...all-love-story
Not to say that you are not credible but who is going to replace the graybeards when they die off? If baseball does not change, the graybeards will be baseballs legacy.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer
The greybeards are not dying off - the graybeards got rich, the richest people on Earth. They had fewer kids than preceding generations of Americans, some much less than others.Quote:
Originally Posted by coachnorm
Baseball will be fine. It's awesome the way it is.
They wouldn’t be looking at these changes if that were true. Nobody wants to pay good money for walks and K’s.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer
Yep. The ones that care so much ?saving? baseball by changing aren?t fans of it start withQuote:
Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer
?The bottom line for Major League Baseball continued to be strong in 2018, even as growth slowed compared with previous years.
For the 16th consecutive year, MLB saw record gross revenues. For 2018, baseball-related revenues were $10.3 billion, according to industry sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The revenues do not include the $2.58 billion sale of BAMTech to Disney that is reported as capital.
The league passed the $10 billion threshold in 2017, but growth slowed from the highly accelerated rate seen in years prior.
The league saw gate revenues flat for 2018, but because of a 4% drop in attendance attributed largely to bad weather in the spring and a change in how the Miami Marlins and the Toronto Blue Jays accounted for sales, ancillary revenues tied to attendance, such as concessions and parking, sagged.
While attendance was down, television revenues were largely flat, with no significant deals kicking in. Sponsorship revenues were up.
While growth slowed in 2018, don?t expect that to continue heading into the 2019 season. More than one lucrative sponsorship deal is on the horizon, as are new revenues from a streaming media rights deal with DAZN. In 2022, a new extension reached with FOX will kick in; it totals $5.1 billion and runs through 2028. Talks to determine whether ESPN and TBS continue to carry MLB nationally are ongoing, and those deals could kick in then as well.
Since 1992, when Bud Selig took over as commissioner on a full-time basis, league gross revenues have grown 377% when accounting for inflation.?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.for...-for-2018/amp/
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If you consider Forbes a credible source (I do), then doesn?t sound like mlb is in trouble at all
Now THAT I would watchQuote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
My biggest beef with pro baseball is that there is so much complicated shit like service time and arbitration and all that that is extremely confusing and hard to follow. Not to mention that they play 163 games it makes the reg season drag and the games dont mean as much.
As far as on the field Im good with most of it except the strikeouts now. Guys dont even give a shit about striking out and it happens entirely too much. In college and high school ball if you strike out you are the biggest loser on the face of the planet and it means something to the P. Its not like that in the MLB