Make Baseball Great Again

[Mr. Friscus]

This is why the NFL is the most watched sport. Parity is good.

To an extent yes, but I think it has more to do with teams being able to retain their talent, revenue sharing, and salary caps.

It sucks when you start to really like a player on your team and after a few years of ascent they leave. Frankie Lindor WAS Indians baseball, then he got too good and signed with the Mets for like $400 million.

In the NFL, Brady and Manning got great on their teams and they were able to be retained by their teams. They didn’t all flock to some team that could pay astronomically more than all other teams, that also had LadanIan Tomlinson, Terrell Owens, etc. that dynamic isn’t allowed in the NFL

Having stars on many teams is a good thing. Having Stanton, Soto, Rizzo, etc all on the Yankees is the problem. Even if they win it’s like… well.. you should have won. What did you even accomplish?

 

[Blaster]

Too many big egos in pro sports.

 

[Harry Dresden]

1. Baseball lowered the pitching mound in the 60’s, and recently imposed a pitching clock.
2. The NBA added a 3 point line in the 70’s
3. Tennis went from wood to composite rackets, and has Hawkeye to allow challenges
4. the NFL now has games stop so refs go under the hood to look at replay

Sports make changes to their game to improve it. Human error is a bad thing. Laser grids/sensors eliminate error, or at least hold an objective zone.

Why would you not want to improve strike zone accuracy?

who said i didnt?....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Maybe you should take up pro wrestling.

why?...im not the one bitching about baseball......that would be you....

 

[Mr. Friscus]

who said i didnt?....

You disagreed with not using umpires for strike zones, didn’t you?

 

[Harry Dresden]

You disagreed with not using umpires for strike zones, didn’t you?

because baseball is a game that has been played for quit a while and umpires are a part of that game....why dont we just go back to the 1870's and pitch underhanded again....no problems with balls and strikes everybody hit the ball back then.......

 

[Mr. Friscus]

because baseball is a game that has been played for quit a while and umpires are a part of that game....why dont we just go back to the 1870's and pitch underhanded again....no problems with balls and strikes everybody hit the ball back then.......

So you do hold the position I said you did. Again, why are you advocating for decreased accuracy? Sports make changes all the time to get better

 

[Mashmont]

why?...im not the one bitching about baseball......that would be you....

And you're bitching about my comments. Why?

 

[Harry Dresden]

So you do hold the position I said you did. Again, why are you advocating for decreased accuracy? Sports make changes all the time to get better

because human error is part of the game...

 

[Harry Dresden]

And you're bitching about my comments. Why?

im replying to your comments....you are the one bitching about managers who get to excited....

 

[Mr. Friscus]

because human error is part of the game...

So you think football should go back to no replay?

 

[Harry Dresden]

So you think football should go back to no replay?

you seem like you think every play should be perfect no mistakes...no close plays...

 

[Mr. Friscus]

you seem like you think every play should be perfect no mistakes...no close plays...

I have no idea how you would think that. I made my point clear. Umps are too subjective calling strikes, they get calls wrong way too often. We have the technology to decrease error significantly to almost entirely. Why is that not what you want to do?

 

[Harry Dresden]

I have no idea how you would think that. I made my point clear. Umps are too subjective calling strikes, they get calls wrong way too often. We have the technology to decrease error significantly to almost entirely. Why is that not what you want to do?

maybe im old school im sure many of the "advancements" in the rule changes would make guys from yesteryear laugh...

 

[Mr. Friscus]

maybe im old school im sure many of the "advancements" in the rule changes would make guys from yesteryear laugh...

In todays sports I don’t think there’s room for the “charm” of getting things wrong