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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 21, 2020 19:25:35 GMT
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Post by NJtoTX on Dec 21, 2020 19:35:28 GMT
Lance Armstrong can relate to the one ball thing.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 21, 2020 19:41:41 GMT
softball?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 21, 2020 19:51:32 GMT
All designed to squeeze every last dollar into the owners pockets and out of the pockets of the minors, NCAA, softball. That greedy fuck will find a way to exploit T Ball. Baseball will be like an oil well. Riches for a while, but when the money is drying up, all that will be left is a dry hole in the ground.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 21, 2020 19:53:38 GMT
Is there really money in softball?
That's like the NFL holding up a flag football league
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Post by sdm3 on Dec 21, 2020 19:55:53 GMT
All designed to squeeze every last dollar into the owners pockets and out of the pockets of the minors, NCAA, softball. That greedy fuck will find a way to exploit T Ball. Baseball will be like an oil well. Riches for a while, but when the money is drying up, all that will be left is a dry hole in the ground. Rob 'Plainview' Manfred. "There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!"
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 21, 2020 19:57:43 GMT
Is there really money in softball? That's like the NFL holding up a flag football league If there's any money in it, it will go into the major league owners pockets, not into softball
It's akin to the PGA going into the Putt-Putt business
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 21, 2020 20:01:34 GMT
All designed to squeeze every last dollar into the owners pockets and out of the pockets of the minors, NCAA, softball. That greedy fuck will find a way to exploit T Ball. Baseball will be like an oil well. Riches for a while, but when the money is drying up, all that will be left is a dry hole in the ground. Rob 'Plainview' Manfred. "There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!" "Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, it's a straw, you see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I... drink... your... milkshake. I drink it up!"
He's already drinking the minors milkshake. Little Leagues, your milkshake is next
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Post by millar70 on Dec 21, 2020 20:52:03 GMT
And we got ourselves one helluva race going on between sabermetrics nerds and Rob Manfred as to who will destroy baseball the quickest.
The nerds, who have used their power to turn the game into a snoozefest of "I throw ball hard, you try hit home run on every pitch", have had a pretty comfortable lead so far, but Rob Manfred, God bless him, is really making a hard charge down the rail in his effort to destroy all that is good.
Sorry for going all Jim Morrison here, but Manfred's got the guns, but the nerds have the numbers. Who's gonna win, who's gonna take over?
Hey, as long as we get to see more and more .220 hitters get celebrated every time they hit a ball 5 miles once in awhile, we are ALL winners!
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 21, 2020 21:08:11 GMT
And we got ourselves one helluva race going on between sabermetrics nerds and Rob Manfred as to who will destroy baseball the quickest. The nerds, who have used their power to turn the game into a snoozefest of "I throw ball hard, you try hit home run on every pitch", have had a pretty comfortable lead so far, but Rob Manfred, God bless him, is really making a hard charge down the rail in his effort to destroy all that is good. Sorry for going all Jim Morrison here, but Manfred's got the guns, but the nerds have the numbers. Who's gonna win, who's gonna take over? Hey, as long as we get to see more and more .220 hitters get celebrated every time they hit a ball 5 miles once in awhile, we are ALL winners! Sabermetrics was great, at first. Getting people to think that on base percentage was as good as batting average, to see that pitching wins wasn't the end all of a pitcher's worth. to seen that numbers from different eras meant different things. A BA of .310 in 1930 was different from a BA of .310 in 1968. But they overanalyzed everything, trying to make the formula fit the player or the game.
Baseball is being incredibly short sighted. Always has been, there was a time when owners fought merchandise sales, thinking it demeaned a team to see Joe Six Pack wearing a Mickey Mantle jersey and ignoring free advertising and a hell of a revenue stream. Now and they see is the zillion they are making from the Extra Innings games and knowing it won't last forever. So they want to squeeze every cent out of it because, financially, winter is coming. Instead of thinking of new ways to make new money streams now that every team's game is available to everyone everywhere
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Post by _ on Dec 21, 2020 21:29:20 GMT
Is there really money in softball? That's like the NFL holding up a flag football league
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 22, 2020 4:01:28 GMT
All designed to squeeze every last dollar into the owners pockets and out of the pockets of the minors, NCAA, softball. That greedy fuck will find a way to exploit T Ball. Baseball will be like an oil well. Riches for a while, but when the money is drying up, all that will be left is a dry hole in the ground. a one size fits all top down organization is not how to develop talent.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Dec 22, 2020 16:49:05 GMT
MLB needs to concentrate far more on its product than its infrastructure... lest it won't even matter one day. Soon.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 22, 2020 17:17:22 GMT
MLB needs to concentrate far more on its product than its infrastructure... lest it won't even matter one day. Soon. What do you mean? 17 pitching changes, shaking off signs and throwing to first four times in a row is perfect for the modern attention span.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Dec 22, 2020 18:02:40 GMT
MLB needs to concentrate far more on its product than its infrastructure... lest it won't even matter one day. Soon. What do you mean? 17 pitching changes, shaking off signs and throwing to first four times in a row is perfect for the modern attention span. They should just reduce roster size to 8-bit video game baseball: maybe 5 starters & 4 relievers. Let's see them try 17 pitching changes with that.
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