MLB

[jvanhoy]

We may be back to saying “I was a Braves fan even through the rotten years.” @Oak, @jvanhoy

We just need one to get the ball rolling!

 

[noharleyyet]

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[jvanhoy]

This is tough from a hard core Braves fan but let’s go Marlins!

 

[Oak]

Braves-Rockies at Coors Field.



Plenty of good seats available.

 

[jvanhoy]

Braves-Rockies at Coors Field.

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Plenty of good seats available.

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Glad the Braves are starting to turn it around a little bit.

 

[Oak]

Plenty of good seats available.

And tonight….

 

[Southern Elk]

And tonight….

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Looking good so far.

 

[Oak]

I grew up watching and loving baseball. I still love the game itself, but MLB is will slowly kill itself off. I've tried watching, but unfortunately due to blackouts, I need to pay an arm and a leg to watch my local team on cable.
The Regional Sports Network TV deals have alienated an inordinate amount of fans. Just ask anyone from Iowa on here how difficult it is to watch the team they root for.
Until MLB forces the teams into a national television deal to stabilize and standardize the offerings of games, that won't be fixed.

 

[SAJ-99]

I grew up watching and loving baseball. I still love the game itself, but MLB is will slowly kill itself off. I've tried watching, but unfortunately due to blackouts, I need to pay an arm and a leg to watch my local team on cable.
The Regional Sports Network TV deals have alienated an inordinate amount of fans. Just ask anyone from Iowa on here how difficult it is to watch the team they root for.
Until MLB forces the teams into a national television deal to stabilize and standardize the offerings of games, that won't be fixed. Also, I know the Dodger, Yankee, Mets, and Red Sox fans here won't agree, but a hard salary cap and a minimum spending floor are in place, the league will continue to suffer.
It's anticipated that after the '26 season there will be another lockout, potentially (and hopefully) long enough and important enough to facilitate major changes, like a salary cap.

Also, the pitch clock speeds up the game a little bit, but the pitchers and hitters find ways around it, to a point. They'll get it taken out in the next collective bargaining agreement. The larger bases are a gimmick. So is limiting the throws over to first. I'm all for increased action in the game, but handicapping the pitchers to increase movement on the basepaths isn't the answer.

Analytics have ground the gameplay to a screeching halt, and will continue to as we go forward.

I pretty well washed my hands with baseball when I saw Kevin Cash pull Blake Snell in the 6th inning of Game 6 of the WS because the analytics, not the player performance, told him to.

It's not just MLB. Every sport is encountering the same problem. For example, most NHL games were on ESPN+ all year. Playoffs come and half the games are on TBS (Max streaming subscription) or regular ESPN. The system is a mess. Comcast is spinning off cable unit (into SPinCo, which is really original ), Warner Bros will probably do the same. the core problem is that there are 1000 other things that can take our attention at any moment. Like you, I would love to enjoy an MLB game again. But I simply can't. It's almost like they don't want me to. Then I remember the players make like $50m/yr to go 1 for 4 with 2ks and I get further depressed.