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When do yo think the MLB regular season will start?

On time
- 1 (33.3%)
Late, but on or before April 15th
- 0 (0%)
April 16th through April 30th
- 0 (0%)
May 1st through May 15th
- 2 (66.7%)
May 16th through May 31st
- 0 (0%)
Jun1st through June 15th
- 0 (0%)
June 16th through June 30th
- 0 (0%)
After June 30th
- 0 (0%)
No Season
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: February 13, 2022, 10:41:25 PM


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josh

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The World Series!
« Reply #5415 on: October 07, 2021, 12:37:08 AM »
The message cannot be empty when I do this. So, now it is not empty.
« Last Edit: October 23, 2021, 11:52:32 PM by josh »
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5416 on: October 07, 2021, 01:12:32 AM »
Quote from: josh on October 07, 2021, 12:32:52 AM
Quite the ending!

Dodgers go on to the next level - Giants vs. Dodgers, the rivalry finally getting to be head to head in the post-season!
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5417 on: October 07, 2021, 01:25:34 AM »
Tonight I learned that the way they have played the entire season is not the way the post-season is to be played!

No more 'each extra inning starts with a man on 2nd base' crap.

I prefer it that way, but sure think having the playoffs under different rules is weird.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5418 on: October 07, 2021, 01:25:56 AM »
Quote from: bankshot1 on October 07, 2021, 01:12:32 AM
Quote from: josh on October 07, 2021, 12:32:52 AM
Quite the ending!

Dodgers go on to the next level - Giants vs. Dodgers, the rivalry finally getting to be head to head in the post-season!
Sort of with an *

Why?

Did I miss something?
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5419 on: October 07, 2021, 01:28:14 AM »
Quote from: josh on October 07, 2021, 01:25:56 AM
Quote from: bankshot1 on October 07, 2021, 01:12:32 AM
Quote from: josh on October 07, 2021, 12:32:52 AM
Quite the ending!

Dodgers go on to the next level - Giants vs. Dodgers, the rivalry finally getting to be head to head in the post-season!
Sort of with an *

Why?

Did I miss something?
yes and no. Check out 1962.
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josh

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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5420 on: October 07, 2021, 02:29:05 AM »
Quote from: bankshot1 on October 07, 2021, 01:28:14 AM
Quote from: josh on October 07, 2021, 01:25:56 AM
Quote from: bankshot1 on October 07, 2021, 01:12:32 AM
Quote from: josh on October 07, 2021, 12:32:52 AM
Quite the ending!

Dodgers go on to the next level - Giants vs. Dodgers, the rivalry finally getting to be head to head in the post-season!
Sort of with an *

Why?

Did I miss something?
yes and no. Check out 1962.

Right. Regular season games 163-165.

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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5421 on: October 07, 2021, 04:06:33 AM »
Too bad the Cardinals didn't have Jack Clark tonight.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5422 on: October 07, 2021, 08:05:17 AM »
Hate the Dodgers, but that was a great baseball game, last night.

NL baseball is so much more entertaining!!
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« Reply #5423 on: October 07, 2021, 08:35:29 AM »
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on October 07, 2021, 08:05:17 AM
Hate the Dodgers, but that was a great baseball game, last night.

NL baseball is so much more entertaining!!
Yes, because there is nothing so exciting as watching a pitcher bat, except maybe the staggering managerial genius and sublime beauty of a well executed double switch.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5424 on: October 07, 2021, 09:26:52 AM »
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 07, 2021, 08:35:29 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on October 07, 2021, 08:05:17 AM
Hate the Dodgers, but that was a great baseball game, last night.

NL baseball is so much more entertaining!!
Yes, because there is nothing so exciting as watching a pitcher bat, except maybe the staggering managerial genius and sublime beauty of a well executed double switch.

Both pitchers got a sac bunt down last night.  Either could have led to a hugely important run.

Amazing stat on Scherzer though

0 for 59 with 3 sac bunts and a sac fly for the year.

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Hairy Lime

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« Reply #5425 on: October 07, 2021, 10:52:40 AM »
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 07, 2021, 09:26:52 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 07, 2021, 08:35:29 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on October 07, 2021, 08:05:17 AM
Hate the Dodgers, but that was a great baseball game, last night.

NL baseball is so much more entertaining!!
Yes, because there is nothing so exciting as watching a pitcher bat, except maybe the staggering managerial genius and sublime beauty of a well executed double switch.

Both pitchers got a sac bunt down last night.  Either could have led to a hugely important run.

Amazing stat on Scherzer though

0 for 59 with 3 sac bunts and a sac fly for the year.
So, three sac bunts and 60 times he flailed pathetically at the plate, including one instance where thanks to the law of averages he hit the ball hard enough to get it to the outfield? Excitement!
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5426 on: October 07, 2021, 11:07:55 AM »
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 07, 2021, 09:26:52 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 07, 2021, 08:35:29 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on October 07, 2021, 08:05:17 AM
Hate the Dodgers, but that was a great baseball game, last night.

NL baseball is so much more entertaining!!
Yes, because there is nothing so exciting as watching a pitcher bat, except maybe the staggering managerial genius and sublime beauty of a well executed double switch.

Both pitchers got a sac bunt down last night.  Either could have led to a hugely important run.

Amazing stat on Scherzer though

0 for 59 with 3 sac bunts and a sac fly for the year.

This year is an anomaly for him - he used to be an above average hitter as pitchers go. He was no Max Fried, but you still had to pitch to him.

He's among the NL pitchers on record as not objecting to the switch to DH for their league.

I imagine the purists are just going to be stuck watching reruns.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5427 on: October 07, 2021, 11:25:52 AM »
I imagine the purists will adapt.
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« Reply #5428 on: October 07, 2021, 12:12:32 PM »
Quote from: josh on October 07, 2021, 11:07:55 AM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 07, 2021, 09:26:52 AM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on October 07, 2021, 08:35:29 AM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on October 07, 2021, 08:05:17 AM
Hate the Dodgers, but that was a great baseball game, last night.

NL baseball is so much more entertaining!!
Yes, because there is nothing so exciting as watching a pitcher bat, except maybe the staggering managerial genius and sublime beauty of a well executed double switch.

Both pitchers got a sac bunt down last night.  Either could have led to a hugely important run.

Amazing stat on Scherzer though

0 for 59 with 3 sac bunts and a sac fly for the year.

This year is an anomaly for him - he used to be an above average hitter as pitchers go. He was no Max Fried, but you still had to pitch to him.

He's among the NL pitchers on record as not objecting to the switch to DH for their league.

I imagine the purists are just going to be stuck watching reruns.
They can go find a league that doesn't use the DH. If there is one.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #5429 on: October 07, 2021, 12:21:29 PM »
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-tuesday-oct-5-2021-1235026752/


ESPN (7.12 million) and ESPN2 (573,000) combined for 7.69 million viewers for the AL wild card game, the most for any wild card matchup since 2015. It was also the biggest audience for a wild card game on ESPN since 1998 and was up 67 percent from the last time ESPN and ESPN2 had the AL wild card in 2019 (4.54 million).

I guess marketing Bucky F Dent nostalgia over rode the glaring omission of pitchers striking out or the intricate beauty of the double switch and goosed WC ratings.
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