Opening day, folks. Fans (most) are full of hope. Lotta teams have changed....but you know what they say about things changing. Pitch clocks are ticking. It's gonna be 68 in The Lou today. Cards hosting the Blue Jays. I'm rocking the baby blue Ozzie Smith joint at the office....cuz, ef em, that's why (c)Chappelle

PLAY BALL!!!

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

They got lucky today the Braves didn’t crack double digits. Shame about Max Fried, didn’t look like more than a minor tweak but you gotta be careful as hell with the push off hammy of a SP.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

inject that shit directly into my veins.

about the pitch clock.

There were some issues pitch wise, announcer wise and batter wise. This will not be
the final product.….they were talking about it on ESPN 1000 radio this morning….

Marcus Stroman’s violation was ridiculous and the entire stadium boo’d.

Like I said, for me, an extra 5 seconds and flat time will give it more of a natural feel
and give everyone ample time….or the clock will be eliminated after the 7th inning.

One thing critics mentioned on ESPN is that during the WBC the matchup between
Trout and Ohtani went well past the current time rule because there was no pitch clock
in that tournament….the current pitch clock would have killed the beautiful tension and
drama that played out during that moment. That’s one thing that has been pen
pointed because those stars have to be showcased and there can’t be any interruption
with that.

So I imagine some type of flat control will be implemented to even things out

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

you're talking about the final out in a tournament between two of the games biggest stars who are usually teammates. I'm ok if we missed out on a couple minutes of tension of guys walking around or messing with their gloves if it can save me 20+hours over the course of a season.

>One thing critics mentioned on ESPN is that during the WBC the matchup between
Trout and Ohtani went well past the current time rule because there was no pitch clock
in that tournament….the current pitch clock would have killed the beautiful tension and
drama that played out during that moment. That’s one thing that has been pen
pointed because those stars have to be showcased and there can’t be any interruption
with that.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

Lol as you can see our friend above has LOTS of time

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The lack of a pitch clock had about 10% of an impact on the drama of that moment. I'd say having the two best players, who play on the same team, facing each other for the first time with the championship on the line is why that moment was special. Not the fact that they had no limit on the time of the at-bat.

It's the same when many pundits thought the Elam ending was going to save the ASG. The reason the outcome was so spectacular was the high competition level because they paid homage to Kobe.

I mean, I get the pushback. It's such a fundamental shift in the way baseball is enjoyed and played. I know I'd feel a way if the NBA went to a 40 min game. Overall MLB games are a better product because there's action throughout.

<--- Me when my head hits the pillow

>Marcus Stroman’s violation was ridiculous and the entire
>stadium boo’d.

WHAT?!?!?! The home crowd boo'd a negative for their team. NO FUCKING WAY!?!?!?

>Like I said, for me, an extra 5 seconds and flat time will
>give it more of a natural feel
>and give everyone ample time….or the clock will be
>eliminated after the 7th inning.

keep wishing.

>One thing critics mentioned on ESPN is that during the WBC the
>matchup between
>Trout and Ohtani went well past the current time rule because
>there was no pitch clock
>in that tournament….the current pitch clock would have
>killed the beautiful tension and
>drama that played out during that moment. That’s one thing
>that has been pen
>pointed because those stars have to be showcased and there
>can’t be any interruption
>with that.

let me call the whaaaaaaaaaaaambulance for you.

>So I imagine some type of flat control will be implemented to
>even things out

keep wishing.

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

This is why Abreu wasn’t re-signed, to get Vaughn back to his natural position
at first base…and he has the talents and potential to be just as good.

Tim Anderson playing for Team USA has definitely matured him. I can see a difference
in his game. He was clutch too.


And Dylan Cease is a true ace. He should have won the CY last season….and is
favorite to win it this year.

Just hope the rest the bullpen can be just as good

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

https://twitter.com/PetrosAndMoney/status/1641873598536388608?s=20

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

You can’t call a man a bitch and think it’s cool. ..and I don’t think he was really trying
to hit him…He could have jumped up and focked him up.

He just took a swipe at his punk ass…

I hate punk ass fans

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

he gonna have a nice little civil suit for Rendon's bitch ass.

No. You don’t. But you feel it’s right to call him bitch.

You think it’s okay to go up to a man and call him a bitch?

A baseball player would knock you the Fock out…rightful so.

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

just to put hands on him cuz he might have called you a bitch...and you're a pro athlete?

Yeah you're a bitch then in my book.

If people are saying racist shit, talking about your family...sure.

But "bitch"? LOL.

>You can’t call a man a bitch and think it’s cool. ..and I

even death wouldn't be off the table!

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Mar-A-Lago delenda est

one way or the other, but...life has consequences. If I call the gas station cashier a bitch, he might not do anything...or he might grab me up by my shirt and see what'sreallyhappening. Just go to the game and enjoy the fucking game, man.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

https://twitter.com/Mazeaveli/status/1641664948614074369?s=20

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

fans should never go onto the field but it shouldn't be open season on them either...exercise some judgment.

i mean, i get it. you can't go on the field. but they coulda walked up to dude like "c'mon buddy let's go".

hope dude didn't lose the ring in the outfield off that hit.

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

>hope dude didn't lose the ring in the outfield off that hit.

dumb shit all around

no one got seriously hurt tho so that's good

hell of a way to propose.

got a engaged and a concussion in the same day.

seriously regardless of how innocent they appear

Don’t go onto the field for any reason at all.

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

but there are probably 100 other less aggressive and equally effective tactics that can be used to subdue someone already on one knee.

peep the OF's reaction to this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqcL7igPo-x/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

im sure you're right in that the protocol gives them carte blanche to do whatever but it just seems like some meathead club bouncer shit who likes fucking people up for fun

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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

those incidents can turn out way worse and you can’t take chances with multi million dollar athletes out there…

https://www.sbnation.com/2010/9/19/1087003/9-19-2002-fans-attack-tom-gamboa

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

>https://www.sbnation.com/2010/9/19/1087003/9-19-2002-fans-attack-tom-gamboa

he been waiting for this, his entire life.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

https://apple.news/AUCFQWDcWR6G5RBwii1AYVw

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

imagine going into the stands trying to swing on every heckler

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https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1642658261332631553

Mariners lost 2-0 last night and i believe the official time was 2 hours, 4 mins.

I feel a really magical/special season from him coming (not that the last two haven't been special in their own right).

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"though time has passed, im still the future" (c) black thought

it's been annoying waiting this long.

*insert M. Bison "YES!!" gif*

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

aside from the fact that indoor stadiums are godawful

pitch clock had the game finished in 2 hours and 20 minutes

love it

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are seriously complaining.

https://www.outkick.com/mlb-pitch-clock-or-bitch-clock-fans-complain-games-are-too-short-now/


“More people are beginning to take umbrage with the fact that they are in many cases spending a lot of their hard-earned cash for a game and may not be getting their money’s worth. You’re essentially paying the same amount or even more but getting less out of it.”

When fans go to the bathroom or take their kids to the bathroom, when they come
back they have already missed 2-3 innings of the game. So now fans are being
ripped off because they are still spending the same amount of money, but they are
getting less of a product.


The games went from being way too long to way too short, this is why I say the clock
will be adjusted.

Also vendors are losing money, because they are losing an hour’s worth of business
due to games being shorter. That can’t continue to happen.

Anyone with 2 eyes can see the difference and how bad it is….it no longer
feels like a baseball game.

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

You’re turning into a conspiracy guy about this whole thing and it’s frankly weird.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/do-shorter-games-lead-to-lower-concessions-sales/?amphtml

https://theathletic.com/4381586/2023/04/05/mlb-new-rules-beer-sales/?source=user_shared_article

When we went from no clock to a clock and lost the 26 minutes, what we found is that there was no decrease in our concession sales,” Manfred said during an executive luncheon hosted by the Paley Media Council in New York. “And we think the reason for that is people kind of, in their head, have two and a half hours set aside to do this baseball game. So before the clock, if two and a half hours was at the end of six (innings), they were gone, OK? Now, they stayed until the end of the game, and we’ve seen absolutely no decline on the concession side. And that’s a really important indicator of how serious the problem was that we were trying to deal with.”

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

especially if it seems clear their team was going to win or lose, or if you brought your kids on a school night.

now, the end of the game actually happens when the 7th inning stretch used to happen, more or less.

that's what Manfred is talking about right there.

shit, i won't be suprised if ultimately it shows that concessions went up ultimately, because you gotta go your shit, you can't just be lazy and go "whenever."

perfectly:

“If you’re not at the ballpark for at least four hours, it’s not even worth your time and money,” wrote Jason Foster for The Sporting News on Opening Day. “Short games just aren’t real baseball. If it takes less than 30 seconds between pitches, or if there’s only a minute or two between balls in play, well, that’s just an unrecognizable sport. It’s certainly not the game we’ve come to love. Some people will tell you that the quicker pace forced by the pitch clock is actually a good thing, but those people are idiots.”

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/sports/mlb-pitch-clock-speed/amp

The pace of the game is what made it baseball, and if you take that away then
you have something that isn’t baseball…and fans are starting to see the difference….
real baseball fans who actually go to the stadiums

The avg tickets cost 28.00, and baseball is a game where the whole family goes or
a group of friends go to have an all day experience at the ball park…so let’s say
you have a family of 4-5 go to the ball park. That’s 140.00, plus refreshments and
beverages, that’s another 50.00- 60.00….add in gas, traffic and parking. All of that,
and then the game is over in 2 hours? That’s a problem, because now they are
getting less of a product, but still spending the same amount of money they were
spending prior to the change. Fans are starting to see that it’s a rip off, because they
are getting a rushed experience

And with inflation being a massive problem now….

That ain’t going to fly.

Now people are starting to see why baseball ain’t just some game like
basketball and football to move fast and be sped up…those games have
never been all day picnic experiences like baseball.

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

but you're cherry picking the opinion of a guy who agrees with how you feel. and you're obviously welcome to feel that you don't like this new direction for baseball.

i can only speak to how i feel about it. regardless of what i spend on tix and stuff at the game, if i'm doing anything for 2 hours? at that point i feel i've gotten my moneys worth like 99.5% of the time.

Here's another pull from that Athletic article (hint: if you're at a major professional sporting event these days, you're a data point on a graph somewhere)

"At least in recent years, baseball fans have left stadiums “significantly earlier” than fans at other sporting events, said Rachel Goodger, chief revenue officer of CrowdIQ, a company that tracks fan movement at ballparks.

"“It’s just been such a focus in baseball,” Goodger said. “Unless there’s a blowout in the NFL, typically fans are staying until the end. Same thing with the NBA and NHL and MLS. Baseball is really one of those sports that the egress has been, I think, a pain point. … Obviously, the rule change is trying to keep fans in the ballpark for the entirety of the game.


"Using data from 2018-22 collected from six MLB partner teams, CrowdIQ found that more fans are in their seats about 45 minutes into the game than at any other point, at close to 95 percent. The percentage drops to around 90 at the two-hour mark, and then 80 at 2 hours, 30 minutes. It takes a sharp turn from there: a half hour later, about 60 percent of fans are in their seats."


Keep in mind they say elsewhere in the article they're working off ticket sales and then taking photos and running them through an AI every 10 to 15 minutes, so those numbers have nothing to do with capacity. So if you're the Marlins and you're losing like 5,000 people in the final 30/60 minutes of a game, just close the bars and send the staff home early.


I live in the home of the College World Series. Nobody's in the 8th inning thinking "y'know, I could go for one more overpriced Bud Light and some ice cream". You're watching the game or you're leaving to pay an appropriate, non-event space inflated price for that one more beer or snack.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

>“If you’re not at the ballpark for at least four hours,
>it’s not even worth your time and money,” wrote Jason
>Foster for The Sporting News on Opening Day. “Short games
>just aren’t real baseball."

I guess all the baseball legends of the '70s were not playing a "real" version of the sport, since games were 2.5 hours back then. of course this guy is an actual voter for the Hall of Fame, not just a Bleacher Report hack.

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The time that's been eliminated isn't time of the game/entertainment, it's time that NOTHING WAS HAPPENING during.

People are still getting the same amount of baseball for their money. They are just getting less filler in between action.

The nothingness of the game is where you found out a lot about
baseball, and real baseball fans know what that is.

You don’t and didn’t watch football for that experience…but you do with
baseball.

Ken Griffey in the swing area, removes the donuts, slowly comes up
to the plate and stares down the pitcher, the pitcher stares back….
Griffey scans the outfield and gets into his stance…The pitcher looks
off a pitch, agrees with a sign and then gets into his wind up and delivers
a fastball…CRACK!! Griffey blasts one over the wall for a homer!

It’s the build up to the play and the play itself that makes it baseball.

Baseball is a turtle that’s not meant to be a rabbit or a cheetah….

and people are starting to realize that difference…

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
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foh..

MLB made this change because they are losing ground.

yall lames watching nothing between the action aint helping the sport grow.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

My coworker went to opening day at Yankee stadium and asked if it was always this turnt up at baseball games. DJ’s playing unedited versions of songs and shit

Said they were “skeet skeet skeeting” in the 3rd inning and shit.

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