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  1. Irrelevant Dude
    It could be a good value if he stays relatively healthy, especially if he benefits more than most from the shift changes. Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
  2. Irrelevant Dude
    This is a reasonable compromise. I still won't love it, but if you allow for 2 extra innings with normal rules, then go to the baserunner in the 12th, I can live with that. Most extra innings games are going to end before the 12th anyway. This way you are still allowing a majority of games to come to a "normal" conclusion, while protecting against the pitching staff damage that can occur in an 18-19 inning game.
  3. Irrelevant Dude
    But winning the game without a hit, via a sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly, is much more exciting! I hate the rule, but we saw A LOT of teams faile to convert that ghost runner. Someone also made a good point that calling it a "ghost runner" is stupid. A ghost runner is an invisible runner that kids use in whiffle ball games to take the place of a player who legitimately reached base. The MLB runner is both real, and unearned.
  4. Irrelevant Dude
    But winning the game without a hit, via a sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly, is much more exciting!
  5. Irrelevant Dude
    I was just coming here to post the same thing... I knew they wouldn't let the extra innings runner go, but I still hate it.
  6. Irrelevant Dude
    Now that's awesome.
  7. Irrelevant Dude
    Fast forward to Opening Day when he is starting in RF and batting 5th.
  8. Irrelevant Dude
    They’d have tiebreakers similar to other leagues. H2H would certainly be first. Maybe division record after that. That sounds terrible. A tiebreaker to see who gets to play one less round of playoffs? Don’t like it I just don't like that 1 division winner ends up having to play an extra round. I would much rather have all 3 division winners get a bye, with the 3 wild card teams playing a series of first round games. Bob Costas suggested having the #2 and #3 wild card teams have a 1 game playoff, with the winner advancing to a 3 game series against the #1 would card team. There would still be tiebreaker issues though. Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
  9. Irrelevant Dude
    I don't love that. I will miss having home and home series against each NL opponent. There really is no point of leagues anymore except as an arbitrary split for playoff purposes. Edit - My math was off. I guess the home and home series against all NL teams is still possible, at the expense of some division games. But they should also eliminate the extra games against the opposite league rivals (White Sox) as that creates an unfair imbalance in a balanced schedule.
  10. Irrelevant Dude
    I'm not a big enough hockey fan to have a strong opinion, but I do like the shootout better than a tie.
  11. Irrelevant Dude
    If by ruled you mean sucked the joy out of extra innings games, then yes it did! i watched so many non-cubs extra inning games that i wouldn't have. it's instant action/strategy, and 17 inning slogs are overrated. There is just something magical about the possibility of that 17 inning game. By no means do I want to stay up until 2am every night watching extra innings marathons, but I want to know that it "might" happen. I like the unknown of going to the ballpark and expecting a 3 hour game but understanding that we might end up being there for 5+ hours instead. That could all just be me, but I enjoy the unpredictability and the chance to see something crazy/historic on any given day.
  12. Irrelevant Dude
    this ruled though If by ruled you mean sucked the joy out of extra innings games, then yes it did!
  13. Irrelevant Dude
    I don't particularly love the ideas of restricting defensive alignments and inserting a clock into baseball, but both of those changes likely result in a more watchable product, so I see them as net positives. For me they fall into the category of, "I wish we didn't have to enforce this, BUT doing so will improve the game." More important to me are getting rid of the 7 inning doubleheaders and extra innings runner, but I'm still not convinced that those are actually going away.
  14. Irrelevant Dude
    I see Jayson Stark suggesting that they can still fit 162 games in without moving the World Series. How much do you want to bet that 7 inning doubleheaders rear their ugly head again? Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
  15. Irrelevant Dude
    Funny, the owners have the same approach toward an actual baseball season.
  16. Irrelevant Dude
    Soon we will long for the days of having to flip between WGN, WCIU, CSN, and CSN+ to try to find which one is broadcasting the game. I don't want any part of Apple's TV service.
  17. Irrelevant Dude
    I'm all for the players holding firm. If that means losing an entire season, so be it. I know that's easy for me to say since it isn't my livelihood, and losing a year of an already short career is a major sacrifice, but I want to see them make it hurt for the owners. Let that lost TV revenue start hitting them in the pocketbooks again. Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
  18. Irrelevant Dude
    I don't understand the experts who had Wisconsin projected as a 2 seed, but don't see any possibility of Illinois getting any higher than a 3. If (big if) Illinois were to win the Big 10 tournament, along with the regular season title, how can you not give them a 2 seed? If they lose in the Big 10 tournament, then they end up as a 3 or 4 depending on when they lose. Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
  19. Irrelevant Dude
    That would seem to be a bad thing for the Cubs (and other large market teams), right? Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
  20. Irrelevant Dude
    That succinctly sums up the small market mentality Yup. Can’t have it both ways of being subsidized with draft picks, IFA, revenue sharing as a “small market” team and then also dictate how the teams that actually spend go about business. Don’t want teams to outspend you, first off don’t own a horsefeathering team, you have money and secondly if they spend less you should get less handouts too you [expletive] Let's say I'm racing horses, and I can't afford to buy a top tier horse, so I settle for a more affordable horse that is unlikely to win but still capable of making money. Should the owners of better, more expensive, horses have to subsidize me so that I can buy better horses in the future? Or should I recognize that I bought a cheaper horse? Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
  21. Irrelevant Dude
    I'm not even clear what happens in the hypothetical scenario where a deal is reached later this week and we end up with only 2 series cancelled. Does MLB simply lop off that portion of the schedule, creating schedule imbalances between teams, or do they cause chaos by creating an entirely new schedule? Or maybe option #3, extend the season a week and move the first two series to the end? My guess would be that option #3 would be on the table only for the immediate future, but as we get further along then the second option becomes the only one that is really viable.
  22. Irrelevant Dude
    Harold Reynolds is embarrassing himself on MLB Network.
  23. Irrelevant Dude
    Good thing Marquee Network has so much quality alternate programming.
  24. Irrelevant Dude
    Harold Reynolds is on MLB Network calling for extending the deadline by a few hours to "get a deal done." Someone break it to Harold that they aren't that close.
  25. Irrelevant Dude
    First, MLB sells a playoff package to ESPN that includes 14 teams. Then, they push the narrative that a deal is close so that they can turn around and accuse the players union of backing out. If anyone is not negotiating in good faith, it is the owners. Even if the players did come in today with a minor adjustment in tone, that is understandable given the previous day's marathon bargaining session. It is entirely possible that, after a little time away from the table, they realized they were compromising much more than the other side and needed to pull back the reigns.
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