Manfred has been changing the game of baseball way too much since he became the commissioner. Every year he adds some dumb rule changes or changes the format of something.
Agreed. Get ready to hear a lot of, "You want us, you got us" quotes and "we have extra motivation to beat this team that thought we were the easier competition."
Manfred is counting on the "fact" that long term, true baseball fans will stay around no matter what changes he makes He is trying to add new fans to the game, younger fans, fans who don't have much patience... He better hope he is right about keeping the long term true baseball fans around though, cause we drive their ability have people laugh at the Astros offering Correa "only" $175,000,000
I don't either...but...the expanded playoffs and it's format isn't set, far from it. In fact that is one of the players biggest weapons right now
College Ball has been awesome so far (unless you are a Rice fan). I highly recommend it while we have nothing else to watch.
https://team1sports.com/goislanders/ 5-4, #1 UT vs TAMU-Corpus, bottom of the 7th @Snake Diggit "Islanders" is a really great name
#1 UT versus Alabama this weekend, both were 5-0 coming in 1-0 UT 2-0 UT Game 3 starts in an hour Also, there's this kid at the other UT (cribbed this from elsewhere): Ben Joyce, 21 year old red-shirt junior pitcher for the Tennessee Vols who is listed at 6’5" 225 lbs: High school: went undrafted despite throwing triple digits JUCO 1st year: went undrafted after seeing no game action JUCO 2nd year: went undrafted after appearing in 5 games & whiffing 35 in 20 IP (also walked 14 tho) Tennessee 1st year: went undrafted after missing season due to TJS Tennessee 2nd year: in 2nd appearance of the season this past Wednesday, 10 of the 15 pitchers he threw was faster than 100 mph with one hitting 103.5. Just ****ing filthy.
Maybe Crane can entice Jeter to sign on to the same plan as Reggie Jackson is currently on. Just to irritate Yankees fans further.
Being able to off-load that contract almost in its entirety should be hailed as a win in/of itself. He wasn't "given away"... and that team would have just as many championships as the Yankees have had since had they kept him.
Every league tweaks their rules every year. Fans complain about horrible it will be. 2 years later, no one notices or even cares anymore.
Getting tired of complaining does not equal no one notices or cares. Extra inning rules were horrible. Getting moved to AL burned for a lot more than 2 years and only stopped disliking the DH until Alvarez and apparent NL was getting DH too.
Extra innings rule didn't make it past 2 years. Adding a DH wasn't an MLB rule change. And you not liking it only until the Astros got a good DH suggests that your dislike has nothing to do with it making the game itself worse or better anyway.
What about the rule changes that affect strategy? Pitchers having to face a minimum of three batters for example. Really has an impact later in the game.
