How are NL pitchers any less focused on pitching than their AL counterparts?
Kershaw, Harvey, Cain, Gonzalez, etc. are pretty damn good despite having to suffer the "distraction" of swinging a bat, tbh....
And considering run support is a huge factor in successful pitching, pitchers should want to get good at hitting in order to help themselves out, tbh....
I don't get why people keep saying this.
Is the point of the DH to allow crappy defenders to play, or to have pitchers simply stick to pitching? I am under the impression that it is the latter...
NL pitching will always look better too, since most starting pitchers in the NL face an extra 50-100 "easy outs" a season, that AL pitchers don't have the luxury of facing. Pitching in the AL presents its own set of challenges too.
Pitchers should have to hit for beanball retribution.
But on the flipside, AL offenses are inflated by their ability to play an extra player who can't field at all but can get runs on the board....
I would also argue that the "easy outs" provided by NL pitchers batting is cancelled out by the lesser amount of run support caused by not having a DH, tbh...
Looks like the OP got bukakked on his own thread.
Serves the noob right.
Yeah, that's my main complaint with the DH. If you're going to come inside on batters you gotta be able to take the heat yourself too.
ESPN is young and hip ?
Anyway, I agree, the games and regular seasons are wayyyyyyyyyyyy too long
[QUOTE=lefty;6614921]ESPN is young and hip ?
Well everyone watches ESPN. Most of their audience consists of younger people who like to watch sportscenter and highlights. Fox doesn't have that.
People watch ESPN, but I wouldn't say it's "young and hip," tbh.... they only get high viewership because they have a monopoly on almost every sport, tbh.....
Exactly. What else are you going to watch when ESPN is the only full time sporrts network?
That is why Fox Sports 1 will be a breath of fresh air. At least for the first few years.
OP clearly doesn't understand baseball strategy, that's why he thinks it's boring. Also watches too much ESPN.
I don't agree with the length of the season, and the long-ass adverts between every half inning. But you can't change Baseball. It's god damn baseball not some flashy superstar "cool" sport like Basketball or American Football where you can just make changes without hesitation.
I wish the season was shorter simply because it'd spare me the embarrassment of watching the White Sox for much longer.
I'm in favor of trimming the season, tho.
Who the wants to watch 18 games a year against the Indians, the Royals, the WSox and the Twins?
3 balls and 3 strikes would be a start.
Used to be 9 balls 3 strikes is what i was told.
Great Great Grandpa Simpson just picked 4 balls to make a walk out of the air.
I can see why a fan of a team whose divisional record is only 10-7 against those mediocre teams right now would want less divisional games
Seem as how they make it a habit of giving up leads in the standing I see where he's coming from. lolI can see why a fan of a team whose divisional record is only 10-7 against those mediocre teams right now would want less divisional games
I wish 2011 had a shorter season so my Sox wouldn't owned one of the biggest colapses in the sport.
Stretching out to make a catch on 1st or making a throw from 3rd to 1st is some incredibly difficult. amazing athletic feat? You dont have to even be a professional to be able to stretch out or make any infield throw.
Hitting isnt easy though. Thats one thing I do have respect for, I cant hit anything past like 50 mph...I can hardly even see 90 mph.
Baseball is too damn long btw. Its nice to watch your team play every single day for weeks/months at a time if youre a diehard, but games also lose significance imo. The homestretch where teams are battling for playoff positioning and the actual postseason are fine...game 20 of 162 or 50 of 162 I dont really give a about tbh.
Look I'm not a fan of TheyCallMePro---I think he's a very slow, very boring poster with little entertainment value, but I just can't help but notice that I'm far from being in the minority here. I think it's obvious that if TheyCallMePro ever wants to become popular again, then he's going to have to make MAJOR changes, and since I've seen the issue raised recently on SpursTalk and other boards, I was just going to propose my own solutions, and see if yall agree with them.
1) For the love of God make him go away faster. I don't care if you have to cut his posting limit. Not even Spurstalk purists want to watch 3 long posts. Casual fans will certainly never get involved with the board if the posts continue to be this long. If you're trying to attract new demographics, then the length of the posts by TheyCallMePro is by the far the biggest issue.
2) Shorten the thread. 162 posts is wayyyyyy too long. It serves to almost completely devalue the regular board and with so many posts there's no lasting sense of good feeling associated with the teams. TheyCallMePro posts too much and the losses pile up. If you have 80 posts, and a 60-20 post win count, then there's a real sense of accomplishment from the fan base. But when you post 162....and your post win count goes 100-62.....ehh not so much.
3) Fundamentally change the game. Yeah, this one will probably never happen, but you can't just have 9 guys just standing out there reading TheyCallMePro's post for 3 1/2 hours not even moving. We read the board to see interesting takes. Not TheyCallMePro scratch his ass for 3 hours. Somehow his thread has got to make their posts more entertaining. It can't just be TheyCallMePro and the good posters dueling it out 95% of the time during the game. Maybe have the other posters on the board trying to disrupt TheyCallMePro from posting bull ? I don't know. They have to do something.
4) Get on an alias!!!!!!!!! Nobody reads TheyCallMePro. He is boring. An alias is young and hip. Young people read alias. Old people read TheyCallMePro. I know aliases have a Wednesday night troll game, and a Sunday night troll game, but that's nothing. , BUMP has 16 troll games on NBA boards alone every Saturday during the season. Even if an alias posts half of what TheyCallMePro or other GNSFs post that nobody reads---take it! Popularity is everything. The e-cred will come later.
I know, I know. TheyCallMePro is never going to change his game. He'd rather suffer the embarrassment of empty threads and low viewcounts rather than change. But one of these days literally 0 people will show up to read a TheyCallMePro threads and he'll have to eventually address his posting flaws. Or he can just fade quietly away as he's been doing for the last 20 posts. His choice.
Oh, and as a Red Sox fan I'm highly opposed to getting rid of the DH... at least until Big Papi retires.
Regardless, both sides have advantages and disadvantages that balance out... except when playing each other in interleague/WS games, where the NL have a massive advantage, which is crap.
Games 20 of 162 and 50 of 162 are incredibly significant. It's the main reason the Angels keep missing the playoffs, because of their ridiculously slow starts, while fast starts by the Rangers have gotten them into the playoffs the last 2 seasons, one of them resulting in a World Series appearance.
Yeah that throw is around 125 ft and needs to be thrown not only with the proper velocity to beat the runner but also on target to where the first baseman doesn't take his foot off the base to make the catch and it's way harder than it seems.
And yeah, the first baseman will make quite a few impressive stretch catches throughout the course of the game. It's not easy at all and if anyone could do it then they wouldn't get paid zillions of dollars.
You clearly have no clue what you are talking aboutStretching out to make a catch on 1st or making a throw from 3rd to 1st is some incredibly difficult. amazing athletic feat? You dont have to even be a professional to be able to stretch out or make any infield throw.
Baseball is fine.
The Marlins ownership needs to change though
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