MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

 

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I guess they technically don't in the standings, but the idea of a tie is still honored by getting a point for an SOL.


The fact that baseball games can theoretically go on forever until there is a winner is one of the main things I love about the sport. Ties are dumb. The only reason Emily would want to make any changes would be purely economical.

 

Emily?

 

I think the biggest reason to make a change is that it puts teams that play in those games in a competitive disadvantage for days particularly with respect to bullpens.

 

The second biggest reason is that most games are played at night and super long games go until ridiculous hours.</blockquote>
 

My answer to both is that's the nature of the beast.

 

The first is, again, a wonderful element of baseball. It's part of what makes a 162-game season have ebbs and flows. The occasional long-inning affair throws a team off for a little while. I like that. And I have no desire to see any more bullpen coddling, which is an aspect of today's game that I don't like. I prefer fewer relievers throwing more innings. Maybe a couple more games like this each season will make managers re-think the way they use bullpens.

 

As far as the long hours go, so be it. It's not the worst thing that I fall asleep before the game ends. But to tell the truth, since I was a kid, I've been fascinated by the prospect that in theory a game could go on all night. I would friggin' love to be see a game that started at 7 pm end at the crack of dawn.

 

Now, the Emily thing, which I corrected in 10 seconds (and really makes me fearful of your response time, Kid Flash), I attribute to the iPhone being to smart for it's own good. It changed "MLB" to "Emily" because it thinks it knows every goddamned thing.

[Kid]

I'm not even necessarily advocating for this.  I'm just saying I'd be fine with it.  There is something fun about long extra inning games, but I might put a thumb on the scale of they're more trouble than they're worth.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

Yeah, I just don't see any reason to do it other than really long games cost owners money.

[Kid]

I don't see how long games cost owners money.  Tickets are sold.  Where's the financial downside?

[1984]

Very small but perhaps electricity and overtime?  I would think that this would be offset by concession sales, though.

 

 

In all, there aren't that many extra-inning games beyond 10 and the ones that do go on forever generate some publicity, so I say leave it be.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

I don't see how long games cost owners money.  Tickets are sold.  Where's the financial downside?

 

Concession sales dry up, last call is long past due, but hourly workers (especially security) still accrue.

 

I have to admit, though, that that explanation isn't originally mine. That's originally from the never-published Dr. Seuss book Take Little Karl and Friedrich out to the Ballgame.

[Kid]

I mean, I guess that's true.  But it's not going to be significant.  I don't think there's much of a financial impact either way (which, as you say, may be a reason no changes are made).

[Butcher]

If they didn't want to play 18 innings, they should've just scored a run. Problem solved. Do I have to think of *everything*?

[jstraw]

If they didn't want to play 18 innings, they should've just scored a run. Problem solved. Do I have to think of *everything*?

 

Or given one up.

[BT]

 

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I don't see how long games cost owners money.  Tickets are sold.  Where's the financial downside?

 

Concession sales dry up, last call is long past due, but hourly workers (especially security) still accrue.

 

I have to admit, though, that that explanation isn't originally mine. That's originally from the never-published Dr. Seuss book Take Little Karl and Friedrich out to the Ballgame.

 

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Do all concession sales dry up though? i know beer sales stop, but everything else can still be sold, can't it? 

[Brock]

Sell beer until the final out. Problem solved.

[1060Ivy]

https://twitter.com/AnthonyDiComo/status...3709138945


https://twitter.com/AnthonyDiComo/status...6793442305

 

Rumor but interesting enough to pass along.  Guess that being dumped by his Brazilian girlfriend sent him into a depression resulting in his drinking too much to show up at the ballpark.  Point of the story never trust an older woman. 

 

"The “Dark Knight” became an emotional wreck on May 2, after paparazzi photos came out showing Adriana Lima stepping from a limo and heading into Rihanna’s Met Gala afterparty with her former boyfriend, NFL star Julian Edelman."

 

http://pagesix.com/2017/05/09/matt-harve...n-with-ex/

[rok]

Boohoo. Time to find another supermodel girlfriend.

[nakedman1664]

I can always count on page six.

[Andy]

Rumor has it he went on a pretty impressive bender which culminated in him calling in sick to work with a "migraine".  However, when you're a super star living in NY, there's bound to be people who notice you out at 3am, smashed the day you're supposed to pitch.