MLB 2016

Fwiffo said:
You follow baseball?

He was placed immediately at the front of the pitching rotation so I reckon much was expected of him.

I'm just wondering if I'll be able to get my annual game in with my mate this year. I really don't want to sit with the proletariat and have to get my own drinks.
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Of course. Your company doesn't have a box?
 
No boxes. We have four platinums with MLSE teams. I usually just crash Sightlines. You can't do that anymore. I made it a habit to go once a year when they drew less than 8000 or something to the Dome against the Rays. Now they don't need my support.

I guess I find it strange to follow the Jays if you're not from at least Ontario. I didn't know they were close to the Leafs where it's religious penance to be a fan.

I went to a daytime game with a vendor once in a box.
 
Fwiffo said:
No boxes. We have four platinums with MLSE teams. I usually just crash Sightlines. You can't do that anymore. I made it a habit to go once a year when they drew less than 8000 or something to the Dome against the Rays. Now they don't need my support.

I guess I find it strange to follow the Jays if you're not from at least Ontario. I didn't know they were close to the Leafs where it's religious penance to be a fan.

I went to a daytime game with a vendor once in a box.
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Not strange. They are the only MLB team in Canada and people follow them despite the fact that they are in Toronto.

Hopefully the Expos come back so I can follow them instead
 
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...-agrees-changes-strike-zone-intentional-walks

Sources: Competition committee agrees to changes to strike zone, intentional walks

A new strike zone could be on baseball's horizon and the old-fashioned intentional walk could be a thing of the past after both were agreed to by the competition committee at Major League Baseball's owners meetings this week, sources said.

The potentially dramatic changes could be in effect by next season.

The committee agreed on a motion to effectively raise the lower part of the strike zone to the top of the hitter's knees, sources said. The current rules stipulate that the zone begins at "the hollow beneath the kneecap," but the change is a reaction to a trend by umpires to call strikes on an increasing number of pitches below the knees.

The change in the intentional-walk rule would end the traditional practice of requiring the pitcher to lob four balls outside the strike zone. Instead, a team could signify it wants to issue an intentional walk, and the hitter would be immediately sent to first base, sources said.

The two changes can't go into effect unless they are approved by baseball's playing rules committee, which is chaired by New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson and made up of a cross-section of baseball executives. Sources said the changes would also be presented to the MLB Players Association as part of negotiations for a new labor agreement. However, the playing rules committee isn't required to have the union sign off on the changes. So they could take effect next season whether or not the union agrees to them.

Both changes are designed to address concerns by commissioner Rob Manfred and others about pace of play and one of the commissioner's favorite terms, "pace of action." The end of the traditional intentional walk would eliminate dead time. However, the adjustment in the strike zone is designed to produce more balls in play, more baserunners and more action at a time when nearly 30 percent of hitters in the average game either walk or strike out, the highest rate of "non-action" in history.

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Mets second baseman Neil Walker voiced support Friday night for raising the bottom of the strike zone.

"I think if you ask hitters, most of the complaints they would have would be about low strikes," he said. "They're probably the hardest to call for umpires, and catchers have gotten so good at presenting them."

However, he also said he thinks the new strike zone would lead to more walks rather than balls in play.

"As a hitter, when you see the ball out of the pitcher's hand and it's going to be down, you usually think about taking it, because it's harder to do damage with that pitch," he said. "Us as hitters, we want that ball up, thigh or mid-thigh."

Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon said he's in favor of anything that gets his team more walks but also said he isn't sure the proposed change to the strike zone would help put more balls in play.

"Guys might take more pitches, and you're still going to get a walk," he said. "It might benefit a team like us if they call it that way because the biggest thing about us would be an umpire that doesn't expand our strike zone. That's what we'd love to have.

"If you're going to shorten the strike zone, it can be counterproductive. If a guy is pitching down below that and we're just taking them, you're going to get less action. It's one of those things that you have to put it in play to answer the question."

Maddon also raised a concern about eliminating the traditional intentional walk.

"By taking that away, there is the potential that a wild pitch could occur that could impact the game. And I've seen it happen," he said.

The Cubs manager is among those who are less concerned about the pace of play.

"When it comes down to the game itself, I'm not so pent up on moments like that, however many seconds that takes to get that done," he said.
 
Rambo said:
Yay for mediocrity!

I've read a few pieces that floated the idea of them trading Chapman and Miller for spare parts.
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Pretty much anything different than what they're doing so far is better
 
We have RA Dickey versus David Price - what does that mean this weekend?

Enjoy your Memorial Day ball games.

I didn't say anything for Rambo's intentional walks post - what about purposely beaning players? Will that rule control that?
 
the new york old men won their 5th straight. grandpa beltran is tearing the cover off the ball. hope they trade him quick.
 
So I can vouch the Jays lost last night. Ocular proof.
 
http://m.bleacherreport.com/article...says-he-had-sex-in-mlb-clubhouse-during-games


Darryl Strawberry Says He Had Sex in MLB Clubhouse During Games

Former MLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry stated Thursday he used to pick women out of the crowd and have sex with them in the clubhouse in between innings.

Strawberry, who starred with the New York Mets in the 1980s before playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees, talked about it during an appearance on SiriusXM's Mad Dog Sports Radio with Evan Cohen (via Mike Oz of Yahoo Sports).

"Between innings. It worked out well, just how crazy it was," Strawberry said. "It kind of worked out that way. You point [a woman] out and tell the kid [to go get her]."

The "kid" he apparently sent to pick up women was the clubhouse attendant, who's often tasked with running errands for players. Strawberry also discussed "drinking in the clubhouse and smoking cigarettes in the dugout," according to Yahoo Sports.

Now 54, Strawberry is doing a promotional tour to hype the upcoming ESPN 30 for 30documentary, which also features Dwight Gooden, entitled "Doc & Darryl." The film, which first airs Thursday night, looks back at the rise and fall of the two superstars.

The California native was one of the most dynamic offensive threats in baseball at his peak. He hit at least 25 home runs in each of his first nine MLB seasons starting in 1983, when he was named Rookie of the Year. His resume also includes eight All-Star selections and four World Series titles.

His drug addiction overshadowed his on-field success, though. Cocaine abuse led to three suspensionsbefore his playing career ended in 1999.

Strawberry's life has changed since those darker days. In 2013, he told Bob Nightengale of USA Today he had become an ordained Christian minister and wanted to start carving out a new life, leaving his baseball years, both good and bad, in the past.

"I'm over 'Strawberry,'" he said. "I'm over Mets. I'm over Yankees. I don't want to exist as Darryl Strawberry, the baseball player. People don't understand that's no longer you. I'm not a baseball player, anymore. That person is dead."

However, the documentary has brought his career back to the forefront. Based on his comments Thursday, it might have been a wilder journey than most fans imagined.


 
Rambo said:
Well including his time in Japan he's got more than Pete Rose
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Throughout his career he has paid attention to those whose records he has broken. He has traveled to meet families and gone to grave sites to pay respect to those whose records he surpassed. Sure, he is Japanese and that kind of thing is part of the culture but you wouldn't see that squareheaded, bowlcut Pete Rose fuck doing anything remotely similar
 
Pete Rose:

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
 
Most of the Tampa stadium are Blue Jays fans. Rambo didn't tell me there was so much Toronto love down there.
 
Rambo said:
It's more that people in Florida don't care about their own teams. That and lots of Canadians.
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Like why Tampa plays on turf when the lot of you get so much sun? We are getting torched now though.
 
Rambo said:
It's more that people in Florida don't care about their own teams. That and lots of Canadians.
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^ this, there was a story on seeing tons of Blue Jay fans throughout AL ballparks and it is travelling Canadians.
 
Fucking Yankees. I can not believe they lost that game to Boston. What a crushing defeat.
 
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