MLB Offseason Discussion

[BhamToTexas]

This might be the dumbest rule change proposal yet...

The Golden At-Bat rule could give MLB a new shine. But is it worth it?

What if a team could choose one at-bat to send its best hitter to the plate even if it wasn’t that guy’s turn to hit? MLB could test it out.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Someone was high when they thought of this idiotic suggestion.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Why do they insist on ruining baseball?

 

[B1GTide]

No idea what this says.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Can you impeach and then fire a baseball commissioner?

This idea is dumber than the put a runner on second base in extra innings.
Why not put the ball on a tee? Why not make the outfield wear blindfolds? Why not make the pitcher throw underhand after doing a cartwheel and while singing Piano Man? I gotta stop or Manfred will see this post and think they are all great ideas.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Can you impeach and then fire a baseball commissioner?

This idea is dumber than the put a runner on second base in extra innings.
Why not put the ball on a tee? Why not make the outfield wear blindfolds? Why not make the pitcher throw underhand after doing a cartwheel and while singing Piano Man? I gotta stop or Manfred will see this post and think they are all great ideas.

Why not bring dancing monkeys to run across the infield with torches and let giraffes loose in the outfield? Hell, might as well. They're turning a highly respectable game into a circus.

 

[BhamToTexas]

This is ridiculous. I hate the Mets.

Mets, Soto finalize record-breaking 15-yr, $765M deal

DALLAS -- Many folks around baseball were still arriving in Texas on Sunday evening when the news began rippling through the industry. Only two words mattered. Soto. Mets. The details emerged rapidly from there, filling in the gaps of a long-anticipated marriage between one of this generation’s...

www.mlb.com

 

[DzynKingRTR]

This is ridiculous. I hate the Mets.

Mets, Soto finalize record-breaking 15-yr, $765M deal

DALLAS -- Many folks around baseball were still arriving in Texas on Sunday evening when the news began rippling through the industry. Only two words mattered. Soto. Mets. The details emerged rapidly from there, filling in the gaps of a long-anticipated marriage between one of this generation’s...

www.mlb.com

will we have Juan Soto Day now?

 

[B1GTide]

The Braves are not going to be able to play this game, so our WS dreams are just that, dreams.

 

[BamaNation]

This might be the dumbest rule change proposal yet...

The Golden At-Bat rule could give MLB a new shine. But is it worth it?

What if a team could choose one at-bat to send its best hitter to the plate even if it wasn’t that guy’s turn to hit? MLB could test it out.

www.nytimes.com

Sounds like a men's 50+ rec league slow pitch softball rule

 

[DzynKingRTR]

max fried to the yankees.

I wish him nothing but the worst

 

[BhamToTexas]

max fried to the yankees.

I wish him nothing but the worst

Oh man, you knew it was coming, but it still hurts. At least it is not in the division or league.

 

[CrimsonTheory]

I think MLB has a Dodger problem.

 

[B1GTide]

I think MLB has a Dodger problem.

MLB is dead to me until some sort of parity returns. Won't watch an inning.

 

[CrimsonTheory]

MLB is dead to me until some sort of parity returns. Won't watch an inning.

Tell me about it. I am going to limit myself to boxscore follow the sport.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

I guess the chasing a championship years are over for the Braves again. The front office has done a bunch of crap this off season. Probably gonna waste away the remaining years of Acuńa, Albies and Riley’s contracts and then watch them go to NY or LA.

I have no excitement for the upcoming season.

 

[B1GTide]

I guess the chasing a championship years are over for the Braves again. The front office has done a bunch of crap this off season. Probably gonna waste away the remaining years of Acuńa, Albies and Riley’s contracts and then watch them go to NY or LA.

I have no excitement for the upcoming season.

There is nothing that the Braves can do to keep up with the teams willing to spend billions on players. Billions.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I guess the chasing a championship years are over for the Braves again. The front office has done a bunch of crap this off season. Probably gonna waste away the remaining years of Acuńa, Albies and Riley’s contracts and then watch them go to NY or LA.

I have no excitement for the upcoming season.

Riley just signed a longterm contract so he is ours until 2033 or 2034. Albies is still under contract until 2027. Acuna is ours until 2028.

The dodgers are spending like crazy as are the yankees. Both are over spending beyond the salary cap, but are cheating the contracts so that they stay under it. The Braves money people refuse to do the same. They will never spend the money to win another championship. I am expecting mediocrity for years to come. Snit will eventually retire and the Braves will just hire another longtime club member from the minors to replace him. Eventually MLB fans will get sick of seeing the dodgers and yankees every year and stop watching. I cancelled Fubo last season because I got tired of watching bad baseball. I will not watch this year either. If I happen to catch a game not on Bally (or whatever it is called now) I might tune in but I will not go out of my way to watch. Congratulations mlb and the dodgers, you have made baseball unwatchable again.

 

[B1GTide]

Riley just signed a longterm contract so he is ours until 2033 or 2034. Albies is still under contract until 2027. Acuna is ours until 2028.

The dodgers are spending like crazy as are the yankees. Both are over spending beyond the salary cap, but are cheating the contracts so that they stay under it. The Braves money people refuse to do the same. They will never spend the money to win another championship. I am expecting mediocrity for years to come. Snit will eventually retire and the Braves will just hire another longtime club member from the minors to replace him. Eventually MLB fans will get sick of seeing the dodgers and yankees every year and stop watching. I cancelled Fubo last season because I got tired of watching bad baseball. I will not watch this year either. If I happen to catch a game not on Bally (or whatever it is called now) I might tune in but I will not go out of my way to watch. Congratulations mlb and the dodgers, you have made baseball unwatchable again.

Of course the Braves refuse. Only people with so much money that they do not care about burning it would play the game this way. I am okay with that - I just won't watch.

 

[CrimsonTheory]

There is nothing that the Braves can do to keep up with the teams willing to spend billions on players. Billions.

That's not just a Braves thing. The Cubs are counting pennies with the hope to sign a guy like Tanner Scott, who just so happened sign with the Dodgers today.

The Dodgers is literally picking and chosing who to sign and leave the scraps for the rest of MLB. It's sickening.

I'm surprise the Dodgers have not called up MLB and have them them void Juan Soto's deal with the Mets, so that they can sign him a deferral rich deal.

I have two ideas: 1. Make the Dodgers a barnstorming team. No home games at all. They simply travel the country all season long (but only on trains, like they did back in the early part of the 1900s). 2. Split the Dodgers into two teams. One of them plays only on the road, the other at home. And the Dodgers can not rotate players between the two teams.

Obviously this is a joke, venting out frustration. MLB needs to do something about the unfair competitve advantage the Dodgers seems to enjoy.