Talk About Tennis 2.0

From the weekend if you missed it.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:25 pm

What do they have to do call up players from the minor leagues?

I believe so C4C.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:33 pm I believe so C4C.

That is just totally crazy. That is almost half the team.

I haven't been paying close attention to baseball but are these nominees really that bad? So far there are no positive responses.

No induction for 2023. Beltran had that great postseason with Astros one year but nothing great.

Rodriguez was a very good reliever, for a very short time. But not enough.

Looking at the stats the only one that has any chance is Carlos Beltran. 435 HR"s and 312 SB's so he was kind of a double threat of power and speed I guess.

I guess no one actually good retired that year? Most of those players shouldn’t even be in the top 30 of a years nominees.

If I had to pick one I’d go Krod as he was maybe the best closer in baseball for a few seasons. Six time all star, still holds the single season saves record, twice won the reliever of the year award. He wouldn’t be an awful choice.

Plus he had that great postseason where he won five games. That’s not easy to do as a reliever.

He’s also one of six pitchers to save 400 games. I’m talking myself into him being a good candidate actually.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:29 pm Rodriguez was a very good reliever, for a very short time. But not enough.

He had five great years of 35 saves or more. I forgot that five years later then he had three more such seasons for Milwaukee actually.

This is the incredible human ego at work once again...
Trying to drastically 'improve' a game that has been played for over a century.
This type of meddling, with people more interested in 'leaving their mark' on the game than they are with ensuring that the state of the game is healthy, is extremely unfortunate.
I'm not the only one who predicts that this will be a disaster...

Baseball Adding New Rules for 2023...

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Only thing I can say is baseball wants to speed the game and improve offenses.

No doubt the networks are behind this nonsense.

I used to follow baseball quite closely, and knew a few MLB players personally... but I haven't watched anywhere near a full game in several years. I really don't like the absolute business that the game has become at the major league level. I'd much rather watch kids play at the local park, as they don't play for fame or money, but for the pure joy of it.

A couple of nights ago, I found myself watching the late innings of the Yankees/Blue Jays game. It went into extra innings, and I was astonished to learn that each team now begins every inning with a 'ghost runner' on 2nd base. Just like that. I found it disgusting.
A little research showed that this unfortunate rule was implemented during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to minimize the time of games. Ok... I guess... But now, pretty much everything in pro sports has returned more or less to normal (whether that should be the case or not is a separate subject)... and they have elected to keep this silly 'ghost runner' in extra innings rule in the books possibly permanently.
Incredible.

If they keep going with these idiotic changes, within 5 years, every MLB baseball game will not be played on the field, but will merely be a couple of team representatives playing a video game which lasts 10 minutes.