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Ball was dead middle of the plate.

Wow Watkins is getting knocked around like a pinball machine.

Mine showed Tor/Cle game. I have Xfinity. Maybe the OP did too. Guessing it was their issue.

It's a (relatively speaking) life nothing burger. But it's a double whopper with cheese baseball burger.

Which is why it is an absolute travesty they expanded the playoffs.

80 game suspension. Padres just cleared out their farm system for a shot at three postseasons with Soto. Tatis is now not going to participate in one of them. Reputation tarnished forever. And now the question if he was truly this good or were the roids giving him an assist. Ya, no big deal.

Some fair points but I stand by my main one. 162 game season no longer means much with so many teams making the playoffs. There will be (probably sooner than later) a .500 or worse team knock off a 100 win team in a short series. Baseball is too random to allow this many teams into the postseason. Sorry I am not trying to hijack the thread lol.

Worst to first meant something back then. Making the postseason was special. Playing 162 games served a purpose. Those were the days.

Mine too. Which is why him leaving for the MFY's is one of the most depressing things that I have ever experienced as a sports fan in my lifetime.

LOL do you remember getting the scores every half hour on ESPN? I think it was 28 and 58 on the clock.

I was 18 for the Why Not season. Nothing compares to it. Was a different time. It was my first year at college. Freshmen had to park about a mile from campus. There was no internet and no way to watch on TV. I would make that walk to my car to barely pull in WTOP and hang on Jon Miller's every third word or so I could make out lol. I came home for the Toronto weekend and watched that Gregg Olson curveball hit the dirt. That 18 year old fell to the ground and cried.

With this joke of playoff expansion half of the league are World Series contenders.

I would sign both of them. Easy call.

They could actually expand the regular season to create more revenue by playing a bunch or separate gate 7 inning double headers. Could also apply these double headers to the postseason to fit in more games and more playoff teams and more revenue. If the game is tied after 9 innings the winner is determined a 10 minute per side home run derby.

My two favorite teams. The O's and whoever has a .500 or lower winning pct in the playoffs. Hope MLB gets embarrassed.

Expanding the playoffs significantly reduces the importance of the regular season. So sad they are on the verge of ruining what made this sport special and different than the others. There is absolutely no reason to play 162 games now. I hope the added revenue from expanded playoffs is worth it. I don't think they have any idea what damage they are doing to the sport. Anything can happen in a short series. A sub .500 playoff team WILL defeat the best team in the regular season in a playoff series at some point and probably sooner than later. What a joke.

I guess this article written by Stadium Talk just a month ago is full of misinformation on this topic... There are multiple things that coaches can teach young athletes. They can teach swings in sports like baseball and golf. They can teach shooting motions in sports like basketball. Or, they can refine footwork for sports like football and soccer. But one thing that coaches can’t teach is genetics. Many of the kids of pro athletes go on to be athletes themselves, and they have a leg up on their competition due to the genetics that were passed onto them. Often, these second-generation athletes even surpass their famous fathers or mothers and become even better at their sport, or even other sports.

So when Arch Manning enters the NFL Draft in a couple of years I'm SURE his bloodline will not influence what teams think of his potential.

I think there are PLENTY of examples in recent years. Just look at the Jays roster. Are you seriously saying that Andrew Jones being his dad doesn't impact whether he will hit as a prospect?

Take the guy with the bloodline. The fact that he is Andrew Jones' son raises his floor.

Come on dude. 364 power alley was a joke. That was obvious the day the park opened. Routine deep fly balls to that area will now be caught or off that 13 foot wall. I absolutely love it.

That Delmon Young hit is not nearly as exciting if it were hit out of the park. Ball was IN PLAY and we all watched with exhilaration as JJ Hardy rounded third and slid into home plate just ahead of the throw.

The shift is one. Forces hitters to say screw it I am going for home run and how many times I strike out trying is not a big deal. Not sure why you equate what I am saying and what a significant number of baseball fans are saying to the extreme that we prefer the deadball era. You enjoy this? Have at it.

Our appreciation of the game is different clearly. I prefer the brand of baseball that was played before analytics took over. Just like I enjoyed basketball before analytics destroyed that sport too with everyone jacking threes up every trip down the court now.

There are countless articles how baseball is broke and the lack of action is the main culprit. I am not using profit margins in my assessment so I will concede that.