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Baseball is to football in the US as cricket is to soccer in the UK.

I don't think under-35s care about wins or complete games, either. But they definitely care about stars, and I think high strikeout totals might be the sign of a pitching star to them.

Was it one of the dead ball guys? If so, then no wonder. One of the other things about the game in those days was how big the ballparks were. It was nothing for a park to be 360 down the lines, 450 to center, and 400 in the alleys. Outfielders had to play deeper to prevent batted balls from getting by them and turning into inside-the-park home runs, which allow softer hit fliners and the like that would be caught today to drop in for hits. One reason there were so many qualified .300 hitters back then.

Interesting data points on how TwitX has lurched rightward since Musk took it over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-anniversary/ One year after billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, aiming to rid it of a “woke mind virus” that he believed was suppressing free speech, the site’s business outlook appears dire. The number of people actively tweeting has dropped by more than 30 percent, according to previously unreported data obtained by The Washington Post, and the company — which the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX has renamed X — is hemorrhaging advertisers and revenue, interviews show. But in at least one respect, Musk has delivered on his original promise: Twitter has become far less “woke.” Through dramatic product changes, sudden policy shifts and his own outsize presence on the platform, Musk has rapidly re-engineered who has a voice on a service that used to be the hub of real-time news and global debate. A site that fueled social movements such as the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has veered noticeably rightward under Musk, especially in the United States, say organizers from across the political spectrum. A Post analysis of dozens of conservative and right-wing influencers and media figures found that many saw their follower counts rise on the day Musk became owner and continue rising at a rate higher than under Twitter’s previous ownership. None of the dozens of popular liberal and left-wing accounts examined by The Post show the same pattern.

That’s actually a pretty decent recovery on Trump’s part. Took in the corrective information, acknowledged the right city to the crowd without apologizing, and immediately engaged them with a question about something else to get their minds of the error.

I agree with you, although maybe even executive terrorists are super emotional and not fact-driven and also simply not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

He shoots, he SCORES!

I don’t think Baseball wants to give up the strikeout, either. Related to the K’s marketing value in highlight clip packages, I think a key reason has to do with how video games, combat sports , and superhero movies have led young guys to crave mano-a-mano competitions. Me against you. I die or you die. I strike you out or you hit a homer. A fight to the death every at bat. Baseball is trying to capture the demo that loves that stuff. I would bet if you did a two-question survey, “Which do you like better” and the two choices were “Either home run or strikeout” and “Any ball in play”, the former would have a really good chance of winning among under-35s. I think pitchers really like the high strikeout era, too, in part because it gets them paid, and in part because it makes them look historically great striking out so many more guys than even the black-and-white Hall of Fame pitchers did. If any starting pitcher today had the same K/9 rate Bob Feller did, they wouldn’t even have a job. Freddy Peralta has one of the top 50 K/9 seasons in history. How else could he ever get on an historical Top 50 list? That’s a pretty decent brag.

I’ve seen player interviews in which they’ve said they like it, and it’s easy to see why: it gets them off work sooner.

One more thing I would do for baseball: in the outfield, I would have a series of randomly-placed landmines. “There’s Marshall, settling under that ball …” KABOOOOM! “Holy SHT!”

I've won a few bets on the sausage race because you can tell which one is likely to win just by watching their legs, how they move, and how limber up beforehand.

That song would have sucked ass has he used strings.

I read that they added strings. Phil Spector is looking up and laughing.

This stands with some of the best work in their deep, deep catalog.

Ok I’ll bite: the Tigers struck lightning already how?

Ties were always replayed and not part of the record. I do r think I’d want to see replays of several tie games every year, or just have those games disappear from the record.

Talk about "not baseball"! 🤣

I get where you're coming from, but I don't see how having Tatis gets us deeper into the playoffs than I think having the ace without Tatis would. I don't think even with Tatis, a battery of decent starters going four-five innings coupled with a gaggle of meh-to-decent bullpen pieces gets us into November.

I'd be OK with it in a modified form. There is precedent for the zombie-runner rule—it's existed in international baseball since the 2008 Olympics, and I saw it in action when I went to Cuba in 2015. Only at that point it was runners on first and second, and starting in the 11th inning, not tenth. If we have to have it, I would prefer to see zombie runner starting in the 11th inning instead of the tenth, runner only on second. I would like to see the tenth inning played as normal, and in 2019, 44% of all extra innings games ended in the tenth. Another 28% of games ended in the 11th that season, so starting the extra runner in the 12th would suit me fine, too. I think I've come around to preferring either one of these to no zombie runner at all. But either way, I definitely want the rule to be the same for both playoffs and regular season.

They are getting uncomfortably close to doing this on every big league broadcast all year.

This is not a commentary on you—you’re a pretty good poster and you’re in the running for rookie of the year here—but I simply despise the term “manfred man’. One, because it’s just so cutesy-poo and it makes me cringe just hearing it. But, also, it suggests an joyful embracing of the concept itself, and I’m not sure I’m completely there yet, at least in its current form.

I conked out between the 10th and 11th innings. Timing. Obligatory unsolicited opinion: I don’t like that the zombie-runner rule is different in the playoffs than during the regular season. It’s a tacit admission that they are not 100% behind the rule itself—if they were behind it, it wouldn’t be different. Baseball should either always use it, never use it, or modify it such that they become 100% behind it. Pick a lane.