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LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Imagine if Trout never extended.
Harper gon get paid.
Harper gon get paid.
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MLB Off-season Thread 2015-2016 IOTI Back to the Future was a lie
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Dmncnby2k9
Banned
10 years 500 million with deferred payments until 2050
Silver Arrows
Banned
I wish I went further into baseball.
CosmicQueso
Member
Directv. Funny thing is, I'd actually pay good money just to have this channel, maybe even as much as a basic subscription to TWC would cost, but I don't want to have two boxes under my tv. I just want to watch Vin in the last season. It's infuriating.
MLB TV contracts for each team:
http://www.draysbay.com/2015/12/10/9878418/rays-finances-limited-tv-contract
Thankfully, the Braves TV contract was recently reworked:
http://www.talkingchop.com/2014/5/8...eive-up-to-500-million-from-reworked-tv-deals
The Rays TV ratings are one of the highest in MLB they should get a huge TV deal once the current one expires.
sf2fanatic
Member
I had DirecTV for a long time but switch to TW because of the Dodgers( Wifey big Dodger fan so we switch) Kinda miss NFL Sunday Ticket but Red Zone is great.
lets just go crazy...
remove 2 teams so that there is 28 teams
then get rid of leagues and divisions, and have each team play each other team 6 times, 3 times and home, 3 times away.
27 opposing teams times 6 = 162 aka the same amount of games.
then merely the top 8 teams go to the play offs 1 vs 8 2 vs 7 3 vs 6 4 vs 5
winer of 1 vs 8 faces 4 vs 5 and winner of 2 vs 7 faces 3 vs 6
winner of those two face off to claim the championship.
alternatively keep the al and nl seperation and add 2 teams
have 4 games against opposite league and 6 games in the same league (though that would work out to 153 games I think) so if you really still want 162 games you can split each league into 4 divisions and make it 9 games against division rivals which I think works out with 162 games.
from there if you don't split into divisions top 4 teams on each side, if you do then merely top team in each division.
the goal of either of these would be to have everyone face each other
but it will never happen lol.chicagocubsfan
Member
BFIB
Member
Hearing Mo and Epsteins comments about the NL as a whole looking at the DH in a more positive way, I think this is the addition.
chicagocubsfan
Member
I think the Int'l draft becomes a reality and the Qualifying Offer issue gets overhauled.
Mr. Enigma
Member
Buster Olney says a lot of executives are talking about the NL getting the DH in the next CBA.
You're welcome, NL!!
I am not a fan...
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Fuck MLB. I will start a new league that is pure. NeoGAF League Baseball
Dmncnby2k9
Banned
with pitchers getting 30 a million, seems inevitable. fuck, wishing it doesnt happen though.
Alex Stroud
Banned
Boo at the DH horseshit. Bumgarner is going to be throwing at a lot of players' heads if this passes.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Love the idea of the NL finally stepping into the 20th Century.
chicagocubsfan
Member
He's going to be a passable LF or C defensively anyway. Everyone overreacts like he's terrible out there, when it really only came to light with a few bad plays in the NLCS.
TBH he should still be in the minors polishing that part of his game up if his bat wasn't so productive.
Now if we can get Vogelbach in at DH we might be having something.
Silver Arrows
Banned
Kicking and screaming.
I'm not in this thread often but I believe I'm here enough to say this:
Fuck the DH.
National league baseball is so much more watchable. We don't need that DH garbage in both leagues. If this was still the steroid era then fine, make it all arcade baseball all the time. Have everyone roided up and jacking 50 bombs up and down the lineup. Great.
But it's not the steroid era. Give me doubles and line drives and bunts and dudes running around the bases and errant throws and the completely opposite but equal beauty of bartolo Colon and madbum batting or give me death. Actually, please don't kill me, but you get the point.
Fuck the DH.
National league baseball is so much more watchable. We don't need that DH garbage in both leagues. If this was still the steroid era then fine, make it all arcade baseball all the time. Have everyone roided up and jacking 50 bombs up and down the lineup. Great.
But it's not the steroid era. Give me doubles and line drives and bunts and dudes running around the bases and errant throws and the completely opposite but equal beauty of bartolo Colon and madbum batting or give me death. Actually, please don't kill me, but you get the point.
Silver Arrows
Banned
Notice how 99.9% of NL fans are opposed to the DH? It's probably one of the most cut and dry things ever, lol.
Dominican Power
Member
Either that or kill interleague all together. I hate seeing AL teams playing with NL rules.
brianjones
Member
I don't have a strong opinion about DH but I do think it's a slippery slope
designated runners, fielders, etc..
this isn't the fuckin NFL
designated runners, fielders, etc..
this isn't the fuckin NFL
The Elite
BOSS
For 30 million I expect them to win 20 games and hit 20 homers.
DH in the NL is due though.
You'll enjoy it once you see one of your pitchers throwing a gem and not have to be removed in the top of the 7th for a marginally good hitter.
Same, I don't give a fuck what the NL does, but don't make my pitchers try to hit baseballs and possibly run the basepaths. No thanks.
Dmncnby2k9
Banned
and i think thats the main problem. with how the leagues are set up, it has to be one way or the other.
matthewwhatever
Member
The DH has been around 40+ years, and in that time precisely one team has tried having a designated runner (and that experiment started and ended 40 years ago). If it's a slippery slope, it's such a gradual incline it's virtually indistinguishable from a straight line. No team is going to waste a roster spot on something so marginal as a designated pinch-runner, and if any teams want to carry an all-glove, no-hit fielder, the DH rule doesn't prohibit that -- it just says there has to be one, not that he has to hit for the pitcher.
Carpe Libertatem
Member
It won't be NL-wide for a couple years. They'll gradually move it in - starting with the DH in all interleague games first
i hope they don't graddually put it in. If you are going to do it then do it. If they only put it in interleague games then NL teams in interleague games will be at a disadvantage. Their ballclubs are usually set up not to have a $15 million dollar bat waiting on the bench.
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
No fucking DH in NL. God motherfucking damnit.
Carpe Libertatem
Member
I sort of agree, I'm just going off of what I've seen reported. NL clubs are already at a disadvantage for half the time anyway.
I'm not sure how realistic it would be to expect 15 teams come up with a DH so suddenly, though. Imagine teams might want a year or two to feel things out
HarryDemeanor
Member
The day the DH position is inserted into the National League is the day freedom dies.
It's like putting ketchup on food.
It's like putting ketchup on food.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
We can also dumb down our managers too.
brianjones
Member
I wasn't talking so much about roster spots but the argument that nobody likes to watch pitchers hitting
if that's not a thing anymore what's next.. Nobody likes watching slow people run or mediocre fielders.. Etc
Silver Arrows
Banned
So what, perfect games and no hitters only happen in the NL?
Fuck is this shit, haha. Again, this is a cut and dry issue. AL fans are in support, NL aren't. Keep it the way it is, I like the variety every once and a while.
Dmncnby2k9
Banned
leave as is, expand the league to 32 teams that way interleague is limited. Mexico CIty and Montreal added to the league or something along those lines.
Silver Arrows
Banned
That's the way I would like to see it as well.
Mr. Enigma
Member
The schedule needs to be balanced and everyone needs to play everyone the same amount of times. It's not fair within a division for one team to have to play 6 games without their DH while another team only plays 3.