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What's the appropriate balance between enjoying this baseball season (short term gain) without sacrificing enjoy baseball in Baltimore for many seasons to come (long term gain)?
Do we want to lose every game in extra innings by 1 run? An unearned one at that with the current rule.
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3 hours ago, Tony-OH said:
Why did this take so long? Simple. Greed.
While this article in the OP looks like it was written by someone in the players association, let's not believe for one second that the players don't hold equal responsibility.
Say that, people have been flying all over on planes and have been fine, trust me, I live by an airport and watch the amount of Southwest flights that have begun to take off once again. They will be fine. As I said before, perhaps conduct temperature checks before each game, and if a player does have symptoms or a fever, he gets quarantined for 14 days. There have been many households where one or two people got it and the others did not, or they had no symptoms. Mine was one of them.
But to baseball, it will be interesting to see if any players decide to sit out. Could be a great opportunity for fringe players to get some major league time in and maybe the Orioles will find a Nate McLouth for a bit? Maybe they will just start the year with Mountcastle playing everyday instead of worrying about service time that may or may not matter if a long term agreement is ever reached by the two sides down the road.
Who knows? Either way, glad to see Manfred grow a set and just make a season. If the players want to file a grievance, let them. Honestly, with Manfred and Clark at the helms, we're on borrowed time until a major work stoppage occurs anyways.
The amount of greed and lust for power these two men have show they should consider running for political office one day where they would fit right in with that crowd.
I'm interested in watching baseball even if it's in the 60-game schedule, expanded playoff, and three division format. With 60 games, who knows what could happen. Might actually be fun to see games matter more.This all is going to end. When Disney offered their online programming in competition with their own cable channel, they were telling everyone that cable is not the future. That being said, the media contracts that feed this greed will crash and reset. Players won't be making $30m a season to play sports again. I for one will be happy to see that day.
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On 5/11/2020 at 8:31 PM, Philip said:
I’ve often compared a player’s minimum to a teacher’s salary. Good teaching is a valuable skill and not everyone can do it well, though lots of people succeed in doing it badly.
State base in Texas is about 47k, but teachers top out at about 55k. So it takes ~12 years for a teacher to match one minimum salary season.
I don’t have any issues with that but I have lots of issues with 30 million a season.
Tony Clark isn’t even fighting for the minor leaguers( they aren’t part of his Union) but he’d better start understanding his disconnect with everyday people, or he’s going to lose a lot.
This is where I'm at and always have been. I'll never feel good about paying a player $30m a year in any sport no matter what the sport's revenues are.
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On 11/17/2018 at 8:23 PM, OFFNY said:
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"Coach, how long do you think it will take to build Louisville into a college football power ???"
"About 15 years."
Howard Schnellenberger in December of 1984, when he was asked about how long it would take for him to evolve his new team into a Division I-A contender
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Under-Commit, over-produce?
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20 minutes ago, wildcard said:
Its really about whether Bundy, Gausman, Cashman and Tillman are ready to start by Opening Day plus if the O's have someone else ready to be the 5th starter.
If the O's acquire another starter Harvey is in the minors.
If one of Cortes, Weight , Ynoa, Mesa is ready to be a starter in the majors then Harvey starts the year in the minors. because the O's will have to put these guys through waivers if they can't make the team.
If any other other starter in camp pitches as well as Harvey, Harvey starts the year in the minors. That currently includes Aquino, Asher, Melville, Hess, Ramirez, and Wojo who have currently pitched two innings in an appearance.
Its a pretty high bar for Harvey to be in the majors. He could go to the minors for month for two and if he pitches outstanding could then be back in the majors.
They may be wanting to keep him as a bullpen option down the road as they often like to shuttle a guy in here or there for a day to fill a need. Whether that's worth starting his MLB clock is another question.
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Missing the option that says.. "I was for it initially, but It's too early to tell"
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*** BUMP ***
I don't think there is any doubt that Miller was instrumental for us in the sweeping of Tigers. Frobby posted that Miller would have to have a key role in post season success to feel completely satisfied in the deal. Are we there yet?
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Bump from last October. Certainly the Red Sox part of "Yankee/Red Sox Hegemony" is at an end, for now. Nobody is going to just assume they are a playoff team in 2013.
Now we need to get to work on the Yankee part of this.
Tex being out for our upcoming series won't hurt our chances.
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A stat I find rather amazing is that Nick Markakis easily led the team in hits in July, with 31, despite not playing in 8 of the 27 games. Jones was second in hits with 22.
A testament as to just how much better Nick is as a hitter than anyone else on the team.
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If it does ya.
One more for the road.. when you say power I think power as in SLG%, not power as in how many HR's he'll likely hit. Would that be correct?
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It really is a tough question. Take the Ravens for instance. The past three years we've been a playoff team and strong SuperBowl contender, but all three years we watched the Big Game from home. As disappointing as that is, it sure as hell beats being a 6-10 team missing the playoffs every year. But in the question asked, that would be like being a 9-7 team and JUST missing the playoffs due to another 9-7 team getting in on a tiebreaker. I think that's almost worse than being the 6-10 team and knowing you're not getting in.
Still, give me an Orioles season where we have a chance the last week of the season and I'll take that over the alternative of 14 straight losing seasons and no hope.
It is tough for me as well... there was great excitement when we made the playoff's as the WildCard in 1996 and made it to the ALCS. And there was a tremendous LETDOWN for me when we went wire-to-wire in 1997 only to get bounced in the first round. I think it took 3 years for me to recover from that.
I've determined that for me, I like being the underdog and overachieving as opposed to the favorite and fending off the challengers.
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It is anti-climatic when all the concern over the "buy a championship" approach has two of the highest spenders in baseball sitting on the sidelines watching the World Series along with teams that couldn't break 70 wins.
I think Dan Patrick had a poll recently regarding who's season would you rather have:
The Last Place Orioles with nothing to play for: Play a season ending series that ultimately eliminates a division rival in a final atbat
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The Redsox: playing a high level of baseball aside from the start and finish but entering Sept 9 games up and sitting pretty. Only to be axed the last game of the season in a walk-off for the O's.
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Rule changes for 2009
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090115&content_id=3746071&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- Two significant rule changes affecting the postseason and one-game tiebreakers were approved by the 30 Major League Baseball owners at their first joint meeting of the year on Thursday.
The first involved one-game tiebreakers, where coin flips will no longer determine host teams. Instead, now that host will be decided by a series of on-field tiebreakers, beginning with head-to-head records. If that's tied, the next is highest winning percentage within a team's division, followed by the highest winning percentage for each team in intraleague play during the second half of the season.
Baseball's general managers had been down on coin flips, and at the GM Meetings in November they asked Jimmie Lee Solomon, MLB's executive vice president of baseball operations, to propose an alternative. Solomon did, and presented the change at the Winter Meetings to the GMs, who approved it.
"That was a general managers' recommendation as you guys know," Commissioner Bud Selig said after the four-hour meeting on Thursday, "and it was a good one."
The custom had always been to flip a coin several weeks before the possible game to determine which team might host. The rule now becomes the same as the one that determines postseason seedings if two teams finish tied for the division title and both are going to the playoffs, one as the division winner and the other as the Wild Card winner.
There have been only eight one-game tiebreakers for a postseason spot in Major League history and seven of them since 1969 when the multitiered playoff format went into existence. Home teams are 4-4 in those games.
Two of them have been the past two seasons. In 2007, the Padres lost the flip and had to travel to Colorado where they lost the National League's Wild Card berth to the Rockies, 9-8, in 13 innings. In 2008, the Twins lost the flip and went to Chicago where the White Sox defeated them, 1-0, to win the American League Central title.
The White Sox had to play a game rained out earlier in September at home against the Tigers on the Monday after the last day of the regular season to force the tiebreaker against the Twins. Chicago won, and then defeated the Twins at U.S. Cellular Field on Tuesday night.
The White Sox had a 9-10 record against the Twins this past season and would've had to go to Minneapolis to play that game had head-to-head records been the first criteria.
The Twins voiced their displeasure that they had to travel after winning the season series.
The other rule change approved by owners is that all postseason games suspended by bad weather will be played to their conclusions.
Under regular-season baseball rules, which remain the same, games are supposed to be official as soon the team trailing records 15 outs. If the game is canceled by weather after a prescribed waiting period, the team in the lead at or after that juncture is declared the winner.
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I just find it amazing that such a thread could span 6 pages. God Bless America. Good job rp0806, you obviously know how to stir the pot...
Margin of victory/defeat
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What happened to the AAA/AA shuttle we've seen in the past to keep arms fresh?