In baseball-related religious news, Pope Leo XIV welcomed Mar Awa III who is the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. The latter brought the former a Leo 14 Chicago Cubs jersey as a token of friendship and understanding. This is especially funny if you know that Leo grew up on the south side of Chicago while Awa grew up on the north side
What are the chances of an automated strike zone? You’d still have a home plate ump to call safe out and foul tips, etc. I don’t like the idea of doing away with ump calling balls and strikes but some smart baseball fans wants automated strike zone.
Don't think this will happen at the Big League level. Umps are part of the game. The game needs more 'color' and fallible umps provide that. Each has his own personality, animation, voice, belly. It would be like taking clowns out of the circus.
The only known para-magnetic material, injected with only half a cubic millimeter, that reverses polarity, is toxic reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO)! SPIONs can’t reverse polarity and they don’t activate magnetism near body temperature, not below. Also, SPIONs can’t change EMF pollution into DC electricity to power the Bluetooth signal that the haccinated are emitting.
You can check with your own phone that the ungrounded vaxxed are emitting Bluetooth:
Also, every single haxxed on the planet should sue Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA plasmids in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence in the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada and Slovakia!
You’ve been lockdowned for nothing? Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 18000 studies proved that, and worse, killed people by preventing testing and treatment for cancer and heart:
No Health Agency researched the 30+ COVID effective cures, but instead censored and banned the doctors successfully curing COVID? A cure would void the Emergency Use Authorization of the lethal experimental COVID “vaccines”?
60 million people killed by the lethal injections? Excess deaths even higher now by the vax-induced thrombosis, myocarditis, cancer and auto-immune pandemics? More casualties than WW1, WW2, and Nam combined:
(caveat: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet 8 towers down. WTC7 imploded, free falling on its footprint, in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach as well as the unblemished Deutsche Bank, which with all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to WTC ...
The “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings.
The fore-knowledge of the 9/11 event allowed masons to make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
There's a plan to slow-murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts, and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with chemtrails and microwaves from satellites, weather radars and 5G.
3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing crop/food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of us.
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
Imagine if an NFL team could 'intentionally walk' the Kansas City Chiefs (for a 1st down) and by doing so ensure that Mahomes had to sit on the bench for the rest of the Chiefs' drive. I don't think that would help the ratings.
But my understanding is that most baseball fans like their game as it is and wouldn't want to change it for new fans who may not materialize.
Most American suggestions for rules to improve soccer, i.e., make it more like the NBA and NFL, would benefit blacks a lot. Many soccer fans like that whites are still quite good at soccer, but they don't have any respectable way to explain that to Americans.
Teams avoid elite cover corners, double and triple team elite receivers with safety help overtop and linebackers underneath, coaches will game plan to run more to reduce total possessions if they are playing an elite quarterback, safety in the box to stop great running blocks, etc. Coaches are always scheming to mitigate the efforts of great players.
Imagine if the NFL created a rule that you would get a penalty if you double teamed Jamar Chase?
By any sabermetric measure, Judge is the best offensive player in baseball and has been for three out of the last four seasons, with the only exception being the year that the Dodger Stadium concrete lip felled him
I suppose I'm atypical. but I LIKE the slow pace of baseball, and I hate pretty much every rule change made to make baseball more attractive to folks who know nothing about baseball and who are only at the game because they got free tickets at the office party and now expect to be "entertained" at the game with various circus acts.
I don't mind the pitcher taking his time (builds suspense), or intentional walks on 4 pitches (yes, THROWN pitches... I've seen wild pitches and batters reaching out to touch one when the pitcher gets sloppy). The DH was the worse of ALL... an abomination meant to increase scoring at the expense of tradition, records and the advantage that a good hitting pitcher can bring a team.
The changes you suggest are even more of an abomination. Hands off baseball!
I don't mind the slow pace if I'm actually at the game, but on TV it's a different story. And I'll also say the game length had gotten out of hand, especially in the playoffs: I remember some 4 hour 9-inning games in the playoffs (Red Sox-Yankees?) with interminable pitching changes. That's way too long. (Especially if you're trying to capture the next generation of fans: their parents are going to make them go to bed before the game is even half over).
One change I wouldn't mind (but will probably never happen) is if they limited the number of pitchers on the roster a team could carry. This would reduce pitching changes, reduce how hard the pitchers threw, and make for more base hits. One thing I think that is hurting the current game is so many guys get stranded on base because it's so difficult just to string a few hits together. It's all homerun or bust. Cal Raleigh hit 60 homeruns but only batted .247: that combination shouldn't be within the solution space.
During the Trump--Takaichi summit in Japan this week, the two leaders and select aides disappeared for ten minutes. Everyone was left standing around, wondering what was going on., wondering where they were
The new prime minister of Japan emerged. She explained to the cameras, in Japanese:
"I apologize for the late start of the meeting. President Trump and I were watching the World Series." She then said a remark that was translated as: "We are winning 1-0." (The Dodgers were up 1-0 at that point.) "We," she said.
You're right. But technically it could apply to the US team (with the Japanese star-players) winning against the Canadian team.
The real problem with baseball (@ Steve Sailer) may be that almost all the players are rich mercenaries, moving around at random based on where the market pulls them; every team a random assortment of people from (these days) all over the world.
How many Toronto players are from Canada, much less the Toronto/Ontario region?
How many "LA Dodgers" players are from Southern California?
The only Blue Jay born in Canada is Vladimir Guerrero Jr who of course is not Canadian by ethnicity; he was born in Montreal because his father was playing professional baseball there and they are Dominican.
You are correct that Freeman is a dual citizen of Canada and the US despite being born in Orange County. Besides Freeman, the only other Dodger from SoCal is Tyler Glasnow, who was born in Los Angeles County and is an alumnus of Hart High School, about 25 miles northwest of Dodger Stadium
Yes, but EHH alluded to a great point that this year's version of the Dodgers has more Japanese than Californians. They also have no Mexicans (although obviously they have other Latinos)
This has been true for at least as long as I have been alive. Turns out, whatever wiring we have that makes us cheer for the local sports team, it doesn't run that kind of logic. As Jerry Seinfeld observed, you're cheering for the clothes.
Japanese are not rooting for the Dodgers because of the clothes.
The World Cup of soccer, and the Olympics, and a range of lesser competitions in which people represent their countries, prove the appeal of the organic-connection model.
In soccer they have introduced something called the "Club World Cup," but it gets considerably less interest than the actual World Cup involving "national teams."
The Club World Cup is primarily a money grab by FIFA and secondarily a dry run for next year's actual World Cup. As someone who lives near MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, I can tell you directly that no one cared about this year's Club World Cup (average attendance 39,547) but everyone will care about next year's actual World Cup, especially if they rig the drawing again to get countries where a large contingent of diaspora live in the tri-state area. Last time we had Italy, Ireland, and Saudi Arabia (among others).
Adding to my previous response, the only Canadian-born players in Cooperstown are Larry Walker and Ferguson Jenkins, with the latter being of black Barbadian descent. I'm not sure if Freeman has done enough to join them yet, but he seems to be well on his way
If a major league pitcher(s) walks the same batter twice in a row on four straight pitches, it is no accident. I can't see anything wrong with your proposal except that it might be too radical. I would prefer a system where a batter can choose to not accept the walk. After all, a walk is a penalty on the pitcher who won't throw strikes, and in football a team can decline a penalty and accept the result of the play. Eventually the pitcher will take a hint and throw a strike before his arm falls off.
“But I don’t kid myself that baseball is a better TV sport than American football. * * * Baseball can’t rest on its traditions when it’s competing for attention with the football juggernaut.”
The term “juggernaut” for the NFL is totally apt. I was curious as to which sport would have the better ratings on Monday night, the World Series game 1 or a regular season game featuring the Kansas City Chiefs. The ratings were lopsided and it wasn’t even close with significantly more people watching the NFL.
As to rule changes, I think it is time to try something new. Many traditionalist don’t want to change anything about the game, which I get to some degree, but you have to keep up with the times. The NFL has made changes to overtime and kickoffs, which I am generally against, but which I understand at the same time. Some of the changes proposed here I think would be good for speeding up the game, especially in extra innings.
Once year-round Sunday Night Football became a thing in 1990, the NFL would purposely NOT schedule a game against Game 2 of the World Series, which traditionally aired on a Sunday. This continued even when SNF became the marquee game on NBC in 2006. However, in 2010 the NFL decided to tip their toe in the water by scheduling a Sunday Night Football game in New Orleans, which does not have a baseball team. Once they saw that they could compete against the World Series the floodgates opened and now since 2022 the World Series starts on a Friday specifically so they don't have to compete against SNF.
Thanks for the data and your comment. It is so interesting how the NFL became the bully on the block. “America’s past-time“ now has to tiptoe around and find a way to NOT directly compete against the NFL.
I hate to be conspiratorial, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the executives at the NFL looked at the calendar, saw when the World Series would likely start, and then plugged in the Kansas City Chiefs, with all of the mania that goes with them, into a Monday night game to directly compete against the World Series. After all, the schedule for MLB and when the World Series would be played, was known for some time now.
Yes, the World Series schedule is set in stone unless both series in the previous round end in 4 or 5 games, in which case they would move it up three days, but even then, they would have gone up against the SNF game of the Steelers playing Packers with Aaron Rodgers playing his former team. You are correct that the MNF matchup of the popular Chiefs and the NFC-finalist Redskins was supposed to be a popular one when the schedule came out, although with the Redskins struggling it lost a bit of its luster which caused the World Series to win this year if you count the Canadian viewers
Related, ten years ago when golfers were saying nobody was bidding on club memberships and the industry's numbers were dropping, I was thinking a good rule change for golf would be to reduce the standard round to twelve holes. But my impression is golf is back and bigger than ever so the golf gods were right and I was wrong.
Also around that time it seemed like hi-speed cameras, simulators, and biomechanical equipment got relatively cheap so lessons got much much better. And somebody came up with the brilliant idea of TopGolf.com so I wonder if that was a shot in the arm as well.
The St Andre golf comedy troupe out of Atlanta is hilarious.
Which illustrates my point: golf is a lifestyle. You need at least one range day a week and one round a week (and, if you're really serious, a lesson or clinic a month) to be skillful enough to enjoy it, and the number of people with sufficient capacity and singular focus for all that time and money is smaller than the number of people without.
But the marketing approach for golf has been, go for the bluefin tuna not the speckled trout, and that seems to have worked fine for the industry.
That had been my thought. And maybe a wrinkle you could add is you're allowed one or two intentional walks a game (for which you don't get penalized the extra base; and if two are permitted, they can't be issued to the same batter), which could make for some strategizing on when you wanted to use it.
I watched more MLB on TV this year than all the previous 25. I regularly abused myself watching the Pittsburgh Pirates, the poster team for MLB's horrible mistreatment of small-market teams. I only watched because of Paul Skenes, the Pirates 22 year old phenom who, unless his arm falls off, might become the greatest pitcher in history. Of course, he'll be playing somewhere else like LA or NYC, where the money is and where previous young Pirates stars went. The Pirates' billionaire owner -- his last name is Nutting -- rakes in his $ every year but refuses to spend the dough to make the Pirates competitive. Everyone in Pittsburgh has begged him to sell the team, but he didn't get to be a billionaire by being a dumb businessman. The Pirates have been over .500 once or twice in the last 25 or 30 years????? The stats are so horrible I can't bear to look them up. The Pirates were once one of baseball's great franchises. We grew up watching Clemente, Maz and Stargell and listening to Bob Prince, an announcer who was not a Vin Scully clone but a unique, real, colorful character and Princeton grad who taught you about baseball and maybe was drunk a little too often. I was able to endure watching a Saturday game of the week this year or the playoffs only because of the pitch clock. I could not bear watching batters and pitchers fiddle around between pitches and games dragging out to 3 hours. Baseball may have saved itself with the pitch clock, but it's become so data-driven and data-obsessed it's hard to bear. Listening to the terrible Fox TV broadcasters for the Series talk and talk and talk about the technical minutia of pitching -- spins, release points, arm lengths, six different kinds of fastballs and sliders -- has been a new kind of torture. Thank God it's only for two more games. Someone please ask Trump to sign an executive order to deport them. Poor Canada -- and I'm legally half Canadian -- would be a good place to send them. For a good and cranky history of Pittsburgh sports and its greatest players since the 1950s, as entertainingly told by my very old-school and deeply opinionated brother John the ex-sportscaster, check out 'Just Watch the Game.' It's what my dad used to tell us to do when we went to Forbes Field and were eyeing the peanut vendor. It's still what people should do at baseball games, but it's gotten impossible to do. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JHQO3OW
> The Pirates have been over .500 once or twice in the last 25 or 30 years?????
I understand that you are using hyperbole for effect but for the others the Pirates have finished over .500 four times in the last 33 years, which is when Barry Bonds left. Perhaps you forgot that 10 years ago they had a three-year stretch where they made the playoffs every year including 2013, the Andrew McCutchen year where they beat the Reds in the Wild Card game. Also, since it was three in a row it may have blended together as one year for you.
In addition in 2018 they finished 82-79 but they were still in 4th place as the NL Central was stacked that year
Thanks. I shoulda looked it up, but the annual agony has been so relentless that I couldn't bear to find out. It's been so pathetic that when they did finish over .500 that first time, the city acted like the team had won the '60 series again.
I love your ideas! Anything to make what is, frankly, a mostly boring game a little faster and more exciting! I'm a White Sox fan, married 33 years to a Cubs fan, and for years I would loudly complain that without the DH, the NL brand of baseball was just less exciting. I also loved the idea of a clock on the pitcher. These have made the game move a bit faster and be more exciting. How many times does one have to watch a pitcher try to hit a ball only to ruin a productive inning? When instead someone like Greg Luzinski could come to the plate? It's a no-brainer. And your ideas would be a definite improvement.
Now, can we talk about the horrorific officiating in the NFL??
I think the Simpsons nailed it when Homer had to quit drinking and watched a baseball game sober for the first time in his life. You hear his thoughts "This game is really boring!"
In baseball-related religious news, Pope Leo XIV welcomed Mar Awa III who is the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. The latter brought the former a Leo 14 Chicago Cubs jersey as a token of friendship and understanding. This is especially funny if you know that Leo grew up on the south side of Chicago while Awa grew up on the north side
https://x.com/UniateAnimal/status/1982918650857169209/photo/1
What are the chances of an automated strike zone? You’d still have a home plate ump to call safe out and foul tips, etc. I don’t like the idea of doing away with ump calling balls and strikes but some smart baseball fans wants automated strike zone.
They are going to a challenge system sooner rather than later
Don't think this will happen at the Big League level. Umps are part of the game. The game needs more 'color' and fallible umps provide that. Each has his own personality, animation, voice, belly. It would be like taking clowns out of the circus.
Right now we should worry about a different ball game:
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Why is food poisoning legal? (Rumsfeld forced the FDA approval of Aspartame/NutraSweet)
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Magneto Challenge. 20 sec video opens ANY conversation:
https://odysee.com/@nazar:d/magneto:3
The only known para-magnetic material, injected with only half a cubic millimeter, that reverses polarity, is toxic reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO)! SPIONs can’t reverse polarity and they don’t activate magnetism near body temperature, not below. Also, SPIONs can’t change EMF pollution into DC electricity to power the Bluetooth signal that the haccinated are emitting.
You can check with your own phone that the ungrounded vaxxed are emitting Bluetooth:
https://rumble.com/v1v4du6-bluetruth-scientific-evidence-for-nano-wireless-technology-in-the-vaxxinate.html
Also, every single haxxed on the planet should sue Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA plasmids in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence in the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada and Slovakia!
"Sound of Silence" Challenge
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A father gets 20 million dollars from Government? 20 sec video of a baby with vax seizures?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/autism-day-shall-we-celebrate-the
Big Pharma scandals as the norm, not the exception?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government
PCR-test does not measure sickness and is not suitable for tracing, with up to 90% false positives: PCR-demic?
https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives
https://rumble.com/v6kevka-understanding-pcr-as-a-diagnostic-test-applications-and-pitfalls.html
Dr. Fauci admitted no scientific basis for social distancing?
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/04/fauci-admits-there-was-no-scientific-evidence-for-six-foot-social-distancing-rule/
The CDC admitted that masking was useless against COVID?
https://web.archive.org/web/20211230231436/https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/07/26/over-50-scientific-studies-conclude-masks-do-nothing-to-prevent-the-spread-of-illness-so-why-do-people-keep-claiming-they-work/
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You’ve been lockdowned for nothing? Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 18000 studies proved that, and worse, killed people by preventing testing and treatment for cancer and heart:
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
No Health Agency researched the 30+ COVID effective cures, but instead censored and banned the doctors successfully curing COVID? A cure would void the Emergency Use Authorization of the lethal experimental COVID “vaccines”?
http://c19early.com
http://bit.ly/research2000
60 million people killed by the lethal injections? Excess deaths even higher now by the vax-induced thrombosis, myocarditis, cancer and auto-immune pandemics? More casualties than WW1, WW2, and Nam combined:
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/covid-19-vaccines-likely-killed-more
https://www.globalresearch.ca/more-americans-died-covid-19-injections-wwi-wwii-vietnam-war-combined/5878034
Is a COVID vax infertility bomb exploding as the haxxed children grow up?
COVID designed as a primer for even worse COVID haccines:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with
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https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/us-public-health-emergency-over-infant
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/spike-protein-against-bone-formation
10 sec video:
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(caveat: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet 8 towers down. WTC7 imploded, free falling on its footprint, in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach as well as the unblemished Deutsche Bank, which with all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to WTC ...
The “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings.
The fore-knowledge of the 9/11 event allowed masons to make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-historical-911-was
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https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/cia-director-in-bed-with-al-qaeda
There's a plan to slow-murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/jane-kills-tarzan
Elections: bought and stolen?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2024-elections-bought-or-stolen
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(don't miss the 1st one, 10 min at 2x, amazing tool for a discussion):
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- US Government: “you are your ID” !
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/boycott-us-biometric-id-deadline
- You are the carbon they want to exterminate:
1. No one denies that man affects the weather, but science disagrees with the official narrative.
Prehistoric data from ice cores proves that temperature rise precedes carbon release in the atmosphere, not the other way around.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/best-scientific-sources-to-debunk
2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts, and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with chemtrails and microwaves from satellites, weather radars and 5G.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/satattack
3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing crop/food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of us.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/carbon-reparations
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/climate-deaths
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/killing-me-softly-with-green-songs
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https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-so-happy-constitution-day
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Imagine if an NFL team could 'intentionally walk' the Kansas City Chiefs (for a 1st down) and by doing so ensure that Mahomes had to sit on the bench for the rest of the Chiefs' drive. I don't think that would help the ratings.
But my understanding is that most baseball fans like their game as it is and wouldn't want to change it for new fans who may not materialize.
> But my understanding is that most baseball fans like their game as it is and wouldn't want to change it for new fans who may not materialize
This is the same rationale that soccer fans give when non-fans give suggestions on how to change their sport
Most American suggestions for rules to improve soccer, i.e., make it more like the NBA and NFL, would benefit blacks a lot. Many soccer fans like that whites are still quite good at soccer, but they don't have any respectable way to explain that to Americans.
Teams avoid elite cover corners, double and triple team elite receivers with safety help overtop and linebackers underneath, coaches will game plan to run more to reduce total possessions if they are playing an elite quarterback, safety in the box to stop great running blocks, etc. Coaches are always scheming to mitigate the efforts of great players.
Imagine if the NFL created a rule that you would get a penalty if you double teamed Jamar Chase?
Judge is a better hitter than Ohtani? Doubt it...
Yes, he is.
But Ohtani is a better pitcher.
By any sabermetric measure, Judge is the best offensive player in baseball and has been for three out of the last four seasons, with the only exception being the year that the Dodger Stadium concrete lip felled him
Offensive Wins Above Replacement, 2025:
1.) Aaron Judge, 9.4
2.) Cal Raleigh, 7.7
3.) Juan Soto, 7.0
4.) Geraldo Perdomo, 6.8
5.) Bobby Witt Jr., 6.7
6.) Shohei Ohtani, 6.6
7.) Francisco Lindor, 6.0
8.) Julio Rodriguez, 5.8
9.) Jose Ramirez, 5.7
10.) Gunnar Henderson, 5.6
11.) George Springer, 5.5
12.) Byron Buxton, 5.4
13.) Trea Turner, 5.3
14.) Nick Kurtz, 5.1
14.) Jeremy Pena, 5.1
16.) Brice Turang, 5.0
16.) Corbin Caroll, 5.0
18.) Kyle Schwarber, 4.9
18.) Junior Caminero, 4.9
20.) Bo Bichette, 4.7
20.) Kyle Tucker, 4.7
20.) Will Smith, 4.7
20.) Maikel Garcia, 4.7
24.) Trent Grisham, 4.6
25.) Trevor Story, 4.5
25.) Nico Hoerner, 4.5
More importantly, who brings in more revenue for their teams? Has anyone ever measured the Yao Ming effect? Or is the Valenzuela effect?
I suppose I'm atypical. but I LIKE the slow pace of baseball, and I hate pretty much every rule change made to make baseball more attractive to folks who know nothing about baseball and who are only at the game because they got free tickets at the office party and now expect to be "entertained" at the game with various circus acts.
I don't mind the pitcher taking his time (builds suspense), or intentional walks on 4 pitches (yes, THROWN pitches... I've seen wild pitches and batters reaching out to touch one when the pitcher gets sloppy). The DH was the worse of ALL... an abomination meant to increase scoring at the expense of tradition, records and the advantage that a good hitting pitcher can bring a team.
The changes you suggest are even more of an abomination. Hands off baseball!
I don't mind the slow pace if I'm actually at the game, but on TV it's a different story. And I'll also say the game length had gotten out of hand, especially in the playoffs: I remember some 4 hour 9-inning games in the playoffs (Red Sox-Yankees?) with interminable pitching changes. That's way too long. (Especially if you're trying to capture the next generation of fans: their parents are going to make them go to bed before the game is even half over).
One change I wouldn't mind (but will probably never happen) is if they limited the number of pitchers on the roster a team could carry. This would reduce pitching changes, reduce how hard the pitchers threw, and make for more base hits. One thing I think that is hurting the current game is so many guys get stranded on base because it's so difficult just to string a few hits together. It's all homerun or bust. Cal Raleigh hit 60 homeruns but only batted .247: that combination shouldn't be within the solution space.
During the Trump--Takaichi summit in Japan this week, the two leaders and select aides disappeared for ten minutes. Everyone was left standing around, wondering what was going on., wondering where they were
The new prime minister of Japan emerged. She explained to the cameras, in Japanese:
"I apologize for the late start of the meeting. President Trump and I were watching the World Series." She then said a remark that was translated as: "We are winning 1-0." (The Dodgers were up 1-0 at that point.) "We," she said.
Three Dodger pitchers as well as their manager were born in Japan, so I think "We" is the appropriate pronoun for her to use
You're right. But technically it could apply to the US team (with the Japanese star-players) winning against the Canadian team.
The real problem with baseball (@ Steve Sailer) may be that almost all the players are rich mercenaries, moving around at random based on where the market pulls them; every team a random assortment of people from (these days) all over the world.
How many Toronto players are from Canada, much less the Toronto/Ontario region?
How many "LA Dodgers" players are from Southern California?
One of the best players on the Dodgers, whose 18th-inning Game 3 home run defeated Toronto, is himself from Canada. That's Freddie Freeman. (See here for ethnoreligious profile of Freddie Freeman: https://www.stevesailer.net/p/gladiator-ii-a-rightful-heir/comment/79993817 ).
The only Blue Jay born in Canada is Vladimir Guerrero Jr who of course is not Canadian by ethnicity; he was born in Montreal because his father was playing professional baseball there and they are Dominican.
You are correct that Freeman is a dual citizen of Canada and the US despite being born in Orange County. Besides Freeman, the only other Dodger from SoCal is Tyler Glasnow, who was born in Los Angeles County and is an alumnus of Hart High School, about 25 miles northwest of Dodger Stadium
Lots of big leaguers from California.
Yes, but EHH alluded to a great point that this year's version of the Dodgers has more Japanese than Californians. They also have no Mexicans (although obviously they have other Latinos)
The Dodgers liked to keep around two Southern Californian half-Mexicans, backup catcher Austin Barnes and relief pitcher Joe Kelly, but they got old.
This has been true for at least as long as I have been alive. Turns out, whatever wiring we have that makes us cheer for the local sports team, it doesn't run that kind of logic. As Jerry Seinfeld observed, you're cheering for the clothes.
Japanese are not rooting for the Dodgers because of the clothes.
The World Cup of soccer, and the Olympics, and a range of lesser competitions in which people represent their countries, prove the appeal of the organic-connection model.
In soccer they have introduced something called the "Club World Cup," but it gets considerably less interest than the actual World Cup involving "national teams."
The Club World Cup is primarily a money grab by FIFA and secondarily a dry run for next year's actual World Cup. As someone who lives near MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, I can tell you directly that no one cared about this year's Club World Cup (average attendance 39,547) but everyone will care about next year's actual World Cup, especially if they rig the drawing again to get countries where a large contingent of diaspora live in the tri-state area. Last time we had Italy, Ireland, and Saudi Arabia (among others).
By “last time” do you mean 1994?
Adding to my previous response, the only Canadian-born players in Cooperstown are Larry Walker and Ferguson Jenkins, with the latter being of black Barbadian descent. I'm not sure if Freeman has done enough to join them yet, but he seems to be well on his way
> what about inadvertent four pitch walks?
If a major league pitcher(s) walks the same batter twice in a row on four straight pitches, it is no accident. I can't see anything wrong with your proposal except that it might be too radical. I would prefer a system where a batter can choose to not accept the walk. After all, a walk is a penalty on the pitcher who won't throw strikes, and in football a team can decline a penalty and accept the result of the play. Eventually the pitcher will take a hint and throw a strike before his arm falls off.
I'd vote for those changes. They should also repeal the designated hitter rule.
Anything that can be done to reduce pitcher injuries would be great, but I don't think that can be done with rule changes.
“But I don’t kid myself that baseball is a better TV sport than American football. * * * Baseball can’t rest on its traditions when it’s competing for attention with the football juggernaut.”
The term “juggernaut” for the NFL is totally apt. I was curious as to which sport would have the better ratings on Monday night, the World Series game 1 or a regular season game featuring the Kansas City Chiefs. The ratings were lopsided and it wasn’t even close with significantly more people watching the NFL.
https://thespun.com/nfl/espns-monday-night-football-dominated-world-series-in-tv-ratings
As to rule changes, I think it is time to try something new. Many traditionalist don’t want to change anything about the game, which I get to some degree, but you have to keep up with the times. The NFL has made changes to overtime and kickoffs, which I am generally against, but which I understand at the same time. Some of the changes proposed here I think would be good for speeding up the game, especially in extra innings.
Once year-round Sunday Night Football became a thing in 1990, the NFL would purposely NOT schedule a game against Game 2 of the World Series, which traditionally aired on a Sunday. This continued even when SNF became the marquee game on NBC in 2006. However, in 2010 the NFL decided to tip their toe in the water by scheduling a Sunday Night Football game in New Orleans, which does not have a baseball team. Once they saw that they could compete against the World Series the floodgates opened and now since 2022 the World Series starts on a Friday specifically so they don't have to compete against SNF.
Thanks for the data and your comment. It is so interesting how the NFL became the bully on the block. “America’s past-time“ now has to tiptoe around and find a way to NOT directly compete against the NFL.
I hate to be conspiratorial, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the executives at the NFL looked at the calendar, saw when the World Series would likely start, and then plugged in the Kansas City Chiefs, with all of the mania that goes with them, into a Monday night game to directly compete against the World Series. After all, the schedule for MLB and when the World Series would be played, was known for some time now.
Yes, the World Series schedule is set in stone unless both series in the previous round end in 4 or 5 games, in which case they would move it up three days, but even then, they would have gone up against the SNF game of the Steelers playing Packers with Aaron Rodgers playing his former team. You are correct that the MNF matchup of the popular Chiefs and the NFC-finalist Redskins was supposed to be a popular one when the schedule came out, although with the Redskins struggling it lost a bit of its luster which caused the World Series to win this year if you count the Canadian viewers
Related, ten years ago when golfers were saying nobody was bidding on club memberships and the industry's numbers were dropping, I was thinking a good rule change for golf would be to reduce the standard round to twelve holes. But my impression is golf is back and bigger than ever so the golf gods were right and I was wrong.
Also around that time it seemed like hi-speed cameras, simulators, and biomechanical equipment got relatively cheap so lessons got much much better. And somebody came up with the brilliant idea of TopGolf.com so I wonder if that was a shot in the arm as well.
The St Andre golf comedy troupe out of Atlanta is hilarious.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-Tk_zjIxBnk?si=xzO-XrS_z1Yh_UoT
https://youtube.com/shorts/pRxQIylEaZk?si=46gBlNirRK1ef6-Q
If St. Andrews had had 12 holes instead of 18, we'd play 3 hour 12 hole rounds instead of 4.5 hour 18 hole rounds and be reasonably satisfied.
Then the standard weekend day for me would be 24, not 18. Seems like a perfect number...
Which illustrates my point: golf is a lifestyle. You need at least one range day a week and one round a week (and, if you're really serious, a lesson or clinic a month) to be skillful enough to enjoy it, and the number of people with sufficient capacity and singular focus for all that time and money is smaller than the number of people without.
But the marketing approach for golf has been, go for the bluefin tuna not the speckled trout, and that seems to have worked fine for the industry.
Why not 2 bases instead of 1 for 4 balls in a row?
That had been my thought. And maybe a wrinkle you could add is you're allowed one or two intentional walks a game (for which you don't get penalized the extra base; and if two are permitted, they can't be issued to the same batter), which could make for some strategizing on when you wanted to use it.
"How to Fix Baseball"
Well... It's okay to speculate about, but doing so is quite illegal. One "1919" is enough!
I watched more MLB on TV this year than all the previous 25. I regularly abused myself watching the Pittsburgh Pirates, the poster team for MLB's horrible mistreatment of small-market teams. I only watched because of Paul Skenes, the Pirates 22 year old phenom who, unless his arm falls off, might become the greatest pitcher in history. Of course, he'll be playing somewhere else like LA or NYC, where the money is and where previous young Pirates stars went. The Pirates' billionaire owner -- his last name is Nutting -- rakes in his $ every year but refuses to spend the dough to make the Pirates competitive. Everyone in Pittsburgh has begged him to sell the team, but he didn't get to be a billionaire by being a dumb businessman. The Pirates have been over .500 once or twice in the last 25 or 30 years????? The stats are so horrible I can't bear to look them up. The Pirates were once one of baseball's great franchises. We grew up watching Clemente, Maz and Stargell and listening to Bob Prince, an announcer who was not a Vin Scully clone but a unique, real, colorful character and Princeton grad who taught you about baseball and maybe was drunk a little too often. I was able to endure watching a Saturday game of the week this year or the playoffs only because of the pitch clock. I could not bear watching batters and pitchers fiddle around between pitches and games dragging out to 3 hours. Baseball may have saved itself with the pitch clock, but it's become so data-driven and data-obsessed it's hard to bear. Listening to the terrible Fox TV broadcasters for the Series talk and talk and talk about the technical minutia of pitching -- spins, release points, arm lengths, six different kinds of fastballs and sliders -- has been a new kind of torture. Thank God it's only for two more games. Someone please ask Trump to sign an executive order to deport them. Poor Canada -- and I'm legally half Canadian -- would be a good place to send them. For a good and cranky history of Pittsburgh sports and its greatest players since the 1950s, as entertainingly told by my very old-school and deeply opinionated brother John the ex-sportscaster, check out 'Just Watch the Game.' It's what my dad used to tell us to do when we went to Forbes Field and were eyeing the peanut vendor. It's still what people should do at baseball games, but it's gotten impossible to do. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JHQO3OW
> The Pirates have been over .500 once or twice in the last 25 or 30 years?????
I understand that you are using hyperbole for effect but for the others the Pirates have finished over .500 four times in the last 33 years, which is when Barry Bonds left. Perhaps you forgot that 10 years ago they had a three-year stretch where they made the playoffs every year including 2013, the Andrew McCutchen year where they beat the Reds in the Wild Card game. Also, since it was three in a row it may have blended together as one year for you.
In addition in 2018 they finished 82-79 but they were still in 4th place as the NL Central was stacked that year
Thanks. I shoulda looked it up, but the annual agony has been so relentless that I couldn't bear to find out. It's been so pathetic that when they did finish over .500 that first time, the city acted like the team had won the '60 series again.
I love your ideas! Anything to make what is, frankly, a mostly boring game a little faster and more exciting! I'm a White Sox fan, married 33 years to a Cubs fan, and for years I would loudly complain that without the DH, the NL brand of baseball was just less exciting. I also loved the idea of a clock on the pitcher. These have made the game move a bit faster and be more exciting. How many times does one have to watch a pitcher try to hit a ball only to ruin a productive inning? When instead someone like Greg Luzinski could come to the plate? It's a no-brainer. And your ideas would be a definite improvement.
Now, can we talk about the horrorific officiating in the NFL??
Baseball isn't meant to be watched alone. It's something you watch while having a 2 to 3 hour conversation with your dad or your friends.
I think the Simpsons nailed it when Homer had to quit drinking and watched a baseball game sober for the first time in his life. You hear his thoughts "This game is really boring!"