2025 MLB Thread

[lordstanley]

 

[lordstanley]

After 7 innings, the Braves and Reds were tied 3-3. 
After 8 innings, the Braves and Reds were tied 11-11. 

 

[Sports_Freak]

18 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

After 7 innings, the Braves and Reds were tied 3-3. 
After 8 innings, the Braves and Reds were tied 11-11. 

 

Reds came back and tied it with 8 runs in the 8th inning. Just to lose in extra innings because of the stupid ghost runner rule. MLB has ruined extra inning games, IMO.

[Tiger337]

11 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Reds came back and tied it with 8 runs in the 8th inning. Just to lose in extra innings because of the stupid ghost runner rule. MLB has ruined extra inning games, IMO.

Absolutely.  I hate when there has been a well played game or the Tigers make a good comeback to tie the game and then I see a baserunner on second base.  This is the first year I have even allowed myself to watch it and the the extra inning rule ruins the moment every time.  Even if the Tigers win in extra innings now, It's just a hollow feeling.  

[chasfh]

2 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Absolutely.  I hate when there has been a well played game or the Tigers make a good comeback to tie the game and then I see a baserunner on second base.  This is the first year I have even allowed myself to watch it and the the extra inning rule ruins the moment every time.  Even if the Tigers win in extra innings now, It's just a hollow feeling.  

So, zombie runner outrage >>> Tiger extra-inning win? Do I have that straight? 😉

[tiger2022]

Play an extra inning.  If it still tied, have a home run contest.  Why not?

[Tenacious D]

I like closest to the pin with a nicely placed bunt.

[Motor City Sonics]

Who will Stroman blame this time? 

[Tiger337]

5 hours ago, chasfh said:

So, zombie runner outrage >>> Tiger extra-inning win? Do I have that straight? 😉

I'd rather see a win than a loss on paper, but I don't enjoy watching that ****.  Once they get to extra innings now, the entertainment value goes way down for me.  

[CMRivdogs]

The MLB is playing a game at the Bristol Speedway this weekend. The first MLB game in Tennessee. Here's a look at the guy who makes these venues work...

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[Tiger337]

5 hours ago, tiger2022 said:

Play an extra inning.  If it still tied, have a home run contest.  Why not?

No, because it's not baseball.  I am interested in watching a baseball game, not a home run hitting contest.  How about two extra innings and if it's still tied, then do the free base runner thing.  There aren't that many games that would go longer than 11 innings and my goal is to have as many real baseball games as possible.   

[lordstanley]

7 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

No, because it's not baseball.  I am interested in watching a baseball game, not a home run hitting contest.  How about two extra innings and if it's still tied, then do the free base runner thing.  There aren't that many games that would go longer than 11 innings and my goal is to have as many real baseball games as possible.   

11 innings normal baseball. 12th inning free runner. If still tied, decide a winner by holding a baseball trivia contest, 3 players per team 1 question each. That way MLB could defile its history and pay tribute to its history at the same time. 

[tiger2022]

The have the stupid shootout thing in hockey and, I think, soccer...never watched it.  A home run contest is just as preposterous as those.

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

The have the stupid shootout thing in hockey and, I think, soccer...never watched it.  A home run contest is just as preposterous as those.

definitely hate the NHL shoot-out. Play 3 on three until someone scores - it won't take that long. Granted hockey is exhausting, but you've only got three guys on the ice in the OT so you aren't killing your team.

[Tigermojo]

Twins Select Jose Urena, Erasmo Ramirez.

Have fun with that Twinkies HAHA

[IdahoBert]

So MLB is trying to broaden its base with NASCAR fans who have presumably never heard of baseball before with this Bristol thing?

[Tiger337]

43 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

The have the stupid shootout thing in hockey and, I think, soccer...never watched it.  A home run contest is just as preposterous as those.

If you think it's preposterous, why do you want them to do it? Or were you being sarcastic?  

 

[1776]

Wouldn’t it be some s**t if this Bristol game got rained out after all that’s gone into the planning and work! 

 

Edited August 1 by 1776

[Sports_Freak]

The Pirates scored 9 runs in the 1st inning against Colorado. And lost!! 

[IdahoBert]

8 hours ago, 1776 said:

Wouldn’t it be some s**t if this Bristol game got rained out after all that’s gone into the planning and work! 

 

There is a 30% chance of it raining I guess. MLB’s attempts to broaden its appeal to people who aren’t into baseball just rubs me the wrong way. “Hey all you people who are into cage fighting, and motocross, and NASCAR, you need to get into this interesting exotic strange sport baseball!” says MLB spokeswoman Stormy Daniels. 

[1776]

The Yankees acquired Jake Bird (Rockies), David Bednar (Pirates), and Camilo Doval (Giants) for their bullpen at the trade deadline.  
Last night the Marlins scored NINE runs on these three pitchers over the last three innings to come back and beat the Yankees. 
As the late Jackie Gleason used to say, “How sweet it is!!!”

[chasfh]

6 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

There is a 30% chance of it raining I guess. MLB’s attempts to broaden its appeal to people who aren’t into baseball just rubs me the wrong way. “Hey all you people who are into cage fighting, and motocross, and NASCAR, you need to get into this interesting exotic strange sport baseball!” says MLB spokeswoman Stormy Daniels. 

That’s a big reason why the game and its many of its broadcasts are lousy with gambling.

[lordstanley]

1 hour ago, 1776 said:

The Yankees acquired Jake Bird (Rockies), David Bednar (Pirates), and Camilo Doval (Giants) for their bullpen at the trade deadline.  
Last night the Marlins scored NINE runs on these three pitchers over the last three innings to come back and beat the Yankees. 
As the late Jackie Gleason used to say, “How sweet it is!!!”

 

[IdahoBert]

I’m in a bad mood in general and far too snarky at times and I don’t want to go on record forever as disliking people who are attracted to a sports that do little or nothing for me. It’s petty. The world doesn’t revolve around me. It’s not the end of the world for a baseball game to happen at a NASCAR track I guess. 

I went to a demolition derby once and loved it as much as everyone else. Though I could’ve done without the Confederate flags. If it weren’t a 4 hour drive away I probably would’ve gone again. I’m perhaps even capable of liking tractor pulls. The food there is surely good.

So if other people like events and “sports” that to me are mere sideshows (oops I did it again) too bad for me. I probably need to lighten up.

I do, though, dislike pandering attempts to make baseball “relevant“ to people with even shorter attention spans than my own who seem unable to appreciate baseball for the right reasons or to grasp its nuances. I don’t like seeing my sport disfigured.

When I was a little kid and I figured out the complexity of the game and could understand it at a glance, there was a soaring sense of accomplishment and belonging that has never left me. I felt invited into the inner sanctum of a holy temple of sorts and I don’t like seeing that experience diminished.

But the push is to reduce it to a level everybody can accept. Make it big, make it loud, make it proud, bet on it, turn it into a home run derby along with all the other aspects of the military industrial sports complex because it’s nothing more than one big revenue stream anyway rubs me the wrong way  

Maybe Tennessee needs Major League Baseball. Maybe it’ll be a good thing. Maybe they even deserve it.

So I will stop praying for it to rain in Bristol and for tornadoes to touch down and lift everybody’s pick up trucks into the sky. I hope the event goes off without a hitch and everyone eats lots of funnel cakes and deep fried squirrel and whatever else it is they like down there.

 

[Dan Gilmore]

Emmm, DFS 😋