MLB Off-Topic

[reyes the roof]

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I haven't seen the comments, but that would be Alonso accusing the Commissioner of colluding with owners to depress whole classes of free agents.

Don't know if he said that out of his own volition or if the Union put him up to it but that's pretty serious stuff.

He didn’t say it in a roundabout way either. A reporter asked him a follow up question about it and he said it’s a fact that they do that

[ubernoob]

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I haven't seen the comments, but that would be Alonso accusing the Commissioner of colluding with owners to depress whole classes of free agents.

Don't know if he said that out of his own volition or if the Union put him up to it but that's pretty serious stuff.

MLB literally just took control of the ball production. They had nothing to do with it until they purchased Rawlings a couple years ago. Alonso is just talking here.

[canes21]

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MLB literally just took control of the ball production. They had nothing to do with it until they purchased Rawlings a couple years ago. Alonso is just talking here.

You don't think the MLB had any power to tell Rawlings to make whatever changes to the ball the MLB wanted before?

[Blzer]

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I really really hope you're not defending Brenly's comments.

Defending? Never. I will say I was watching that game live and didn't even notice, though.

Because I fear my words will be twisted down the line here, I'll simply cease from my thoughts on it hereon out. It was less about this moment in particular, and more about hypersensitivity (again, somebody will take what I'm saying the wrong way).

[ubernoob]

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You don't think the MLB had any power to tell Rawlings to make whatever changes to the ball the MLB wanted before?

Not like they do now, where they can directly control everything about the production of it.

Hence this year why we see the exit velocity and drag increase we are seeing, it's their way of trying to "fix" things, but it is just addressing the symptom and not the illness.

[canes21]

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Not like they do now, where they can directly control everything about the production of it.

Hence this year why we see the exit velocity and drag increase we are seeing, it's their way of trying to "fix" things, but it is just addressing the symptom and not the illness.

We also saw the balls get juiced in the opposite direction in the recent past. I doubt that was Rawlings going rogue on the MLB.

[Dead2009]

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I like how the Orioles went from back to back blow outs in the Indians and Mets games, to getting blown out themselves.

[TripleCrown9]

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Diamondbacks teased that they're about to reveal their City Connect uniforms. I'm only posting it because I don't remember the other teams putting out something like this.

[Speedy]

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I haven't watched a single game this year.

I will continue to blame MLB's blackout policy with MLB At-Bat. It's a shame too, really...I think if they gave consumers price packages to view their own team outside of cable, they could generate so much more revenue since there are tons of people no longer using cable.

[jeebs9]

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I haven't watched a single game this year.



I will continue to blame MLB's blackout policy with MLB At-Bat. It's a shame too, really...I think if they gave consumers price packages to view their own team outside of cable, they could generate so much more revenue since there are tons of people no longer using cable.

That's truly sad. I DMed you.

[steelerfan]

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I haven't watched a single game this year.



I will continue to blame MLB's blackout policy with MLB At-Bat. It's a shame too, really...I think if they gave consumers price packages to view their own team outside of cable, they could generate so much more revenue since there are tons of people no longer using cable.

I've pretty much only been watching the YouTube GotW. I catch an occasional Astros game here or there but pretty much just YouTube.

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[reyes the roof]

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I haven't watched a single game this year.

I will continue to blame MLB's blackout policy with MLB At-Bat. It's a shame too, really...I think if they gave consumers price packages to view their own team outside of cable, they could generate so much more revenue since there are tons of people no longer using cable.

MLB is really out of touch if they want to grow the game to a younger audience. Younger fans are less likely to have cable, so you can have all the pace of play changes that Manfred wants but they won’t mean anything if they don’t come up with a better distribution model

[Majingir]

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MLB is really out of touch if they want to grow the game to a younger audience. Younger fans are less likely to have cable, so you can have all the pace of play changes that Manfred wants but they won’t mean anything if they don’t come up with a better distribution model

Not sure if they do it, but is there a condensed version of the games available for free online?

On TV here they have a "game in an hour" or game in 30" broadcast for all the Toronto teams, but that's put together by their network.

I know NHL also has official "60 in 6" styled condensed games on YouTube.

I know regular users post clips of games too, but it's not official and often gets taken down.

If MLB doesn't do it already, they should look into that. Easy way to watch all notable parts of a game with no recap voiceover playing over it.

I heard on a sports show one time one of the hosts was talking about how his kids consume sports. He mentioned that one of his kids is a big fan, but never watches a game. They consume all their content online, watching every recap and highlight video on YouTube instead. I wonder if that's a common thing amongst kids nowadays when consuming sports.

[Jeffrey Smith]

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I love baseball but I really believe it is the worst run sport. Manfred is out of touch with the games fanbase.


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[Dead2009]

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I haven't watched a single game this year.

I will continue to blame MLB's blackout policy with MLB At-Bat. It's a shame too, really...I think if they gave consumers price packages to view their own team outside of cable, they could generate so much more revenue since there are tons of people no longer using cable.

MLB TV. It's 25 bucks a month.

Just bought tickets to the Pirates/Nationals game next wednesday .