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2018 MLB Regular Season Thread! Current thread batting average: .420 (1 Viewer)

Bellinger sitting tonight against the mighty Derek Holland. MadBum on the docket this weekend too. If he sits both of these games, Dave Roberts should be executed. 

 
guru_007 said:
When I was a kid, I used to always beg my parents to buy tickets for double headers.  I mean, these games had to always be sell outs, who wouldn't want to stick around for TWO FULL GAMES OF BASEBALL for the price of one!  My father had a very difficult time explaining to me that it's tough to fit that much time out of one's day to get to the ball park.  Lunacy I said, where else would I want to be on a midsummer day as a 13 year old.  I think I went to exactly one double header in my life, with my dad, cousin and grandfather, and by the 5th inning of game 2 only me and my grandfather had any interest of being there any longer.

As an adult now, not quite Eephus aged, but damn sure getting close, I see no reason to ever go to a double header, my family, work, and home obligations do not fit this in at all.  I'm not obsessed with a 2 hour game, but I wish games were all around 2.5 hours, not closer to 3 hours are they seem to be now.  162 games, 2.5 hours per game that's nearly 17 days worth of baseball played, which is a lot.  And that does not factor in the 30-45 minutes to and from the park, so for a 7:00 p.m. game, I have to be out of my house by 5:30ish and I don't get home till nearly 10:30 or 11:00p.m....and well, I work so I'm not usually home by 5:30 and I'm usually up at 5:00 a.m.

And of course none of this takes into account the fact my children have had activities every single damn day except some Fridays and Sundays basically year round....well, until they are out of the house.  As big a baseball fan I am, shorter regular season games are appreciated.  
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My baseball schedule (minor league team 5 minutes away) is so weird that the length of the game doesn't matter at all. I get up for work at 4 everyday (5 on Sundays). Games are at 6:30 (thankfully). Gates open at 5:30. Season ticket holders can get in at 5:15. So, we normally get there at 5:15, but most nights, I really can't stay past 8:00. If I'm unusually rested for some reason or just get a wild hair up my ###, I can make until 9:00. For the Playoffs, I can dial it up a little longer and just be exhausted at work (not much chance of Playoffs this year).

So, I go to 80% of the games, but spend as much time watching the grounds crew as I do watching baseball. I really don't mind though. I love baseball, but I just enjoy being at the park.

If there was an MLB team in my backyard, it would probably take a special occasion for me to go. Minor league baseball is a relatively cheap and hassle free way for me to unwind after work (I can literally park 50 feet from the front gate, which is a factor with my wife in a wheelchair). I couldn't afford the expense or hassle of going to MLB games regularly (and you couldn't pay me enough to step foot in an NFL stadium).

 I know my work schedule is odd, but it seems MLB fans are finding other ways to spend their evenings this season. I hope MLB can find a way to turn that around. The competition for folks' leisure time has never been more crowded, but I'd think of all sports leagues, MLB needs good attendance the most. It's a great sport, but the so much of the experience is just about being in the park.

 
Epic Problem said:
Wonder what the rule is that allows Soto to play in this makeup game. 
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MLB Rule 4.12(c) ...

A player who was not with the club when the game was suspended may be used as a substitute, even if he has taken the place of a player no longer with the club who would not have been eligible because he had been removed from the lineup before the game was suspended.

Rule 4.12(c) Comment: If immediately prior to the call of a suspended game, a substitute pitcher has been announced but has not retired the side or pitched until the batter becomes a base runner, such pitcher, when the suspended game is later resumed may, but is not required to start the resumed portion of the game. However, if he does not start he will be considered as having been substituted for and may not be used in that game.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Doesn’t look like anyone got credit for the Doolittle save or the Soto homer. WTF? 
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So the clarification seems to be that if they were in your lineup on May 15th, only in roto, you should get credit. Since Soto wasn’t even in the majors on May 15th, his homer is almost assuredly not counted. 

I have Doolittle in H2H so I’m screwed all the way around. 

 
Just read that Mike Trout could go 0 for his next 400 at-bats and he'd still have a higher OPS than Chris Davis' current OPS (.454).

 
How about this Mike Trout fact... Trout is on pace to have the best season ever, meanwhile he hasn't won a single player of the week award. As a matter of fact, he hasn't won the award since July 2015. He's just that consistently good. 

 
Hanley Ramirez reportedly involved in federal and state investigation

"There has been some reports about a FaceTime phone call that was made between a man during a car stop," Michele McPhee, the ABC reporter who broke the story said. "After that car stop, police recovered a significant amount of drugs. And during that car stop, the suspect claimed that one of the items found in the vehicle belonged to Hanley Ramirez and then FaceTimed [Ramirez] in front of police. And that car stop coordinated with the timing of his release from the Red Sox.” 

“There is a sweeping federal case involving a substantial ring that’s being operated out of Lawrence, Massachusetts,” McPhee continued. “And I think the suspect had ties to that ring.”
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Whatever you do Doyers, don't ease Kershaw back into the rotation. Throwing him out in NYC against deGrom is the smartest way to go about this. 

 
shadyridr said:
I would think a start against the Mets is definitely easing him in. They're dreadful. 
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Still.. big stage, opposing ace. Already one failed comeback. There's no reason to put him out there trying to prove something. Now throw the elements into this as there's a 70ish% chance of rain tonight. 

It's not sound thinking imo

If you would have let him make a rehab start today, that leaves him lined up for Col at home against Anderson. That's easing him back into it. 

 
AJ Pierzynski is the color commentator for the FOX broadcast. I have a sense of why he was so universally despised: he never shuts the eff up. 

He talks and talks and talks. He talks over the play-by-play guy, over the sideline reporter. He talks when the inning is ending and they are heading to commercial and he is already talking when they come back for the start of the next inning. 

No wonder Michael Barrett went for his jaw instead of his nose. 

 
So maybe the rules changed or maybe I’m not remembering correctly but apparently you can catch a ball off the speakers in Tampa like you’re playing backyard Wiffle ball.  Maybe metrodome had the ground rule double dead ball rule

send this dump to the dustbin and send this team to Montreal for this nonsense 

 
Smack Tripper said:
So maybe the rules changed or maybe I’m not remembering correctly but apparently you can catch a ball off the speakers in Tampa like you’re playing backyard Wiffle ball.  Maybe metrodome had the ground rule double dead ball rule

send this dump to the dustbin and send this team to Montreal for this nonsense 
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Wahhhhhhh. You have a little league porch in RF and a ####ing stupid whistle everytime somebody strikes out. 

 
Edwin Jackson will take the hill for the Oaklands on Monday.  It'll be his 13th different MLB team tying Octavio Dotel for the career record.  They were teammates on the 2011 Cardinals.

Jackson is two wins shy of 100 in his career.

 
Eephus said:
Edwin Jackson will take the hill for the Oaklands on Monday.  It'll be his 13th different MLB team tying Octavio Dotel for the career record.  They were teammates on the 2011 Cardinals.

Jackson is two wins shy of 100 in his career.
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And MLB wants to expand?  Can only imagine some of the 4th and 5th pitchers when we have 32 teams.

 
Since the Rays started their “opener” shtick they have the best era in baseball. How many teams will start incorporating that instead of crappy 4th/5th starters in the next few years?

 
Eephus said:
Edwin Jackson will take the hill for the Oaklands on Monday.  It'll be his 13th different MLB team tying Octavio Dotel for the career record.  They were teammates on the 2011 Cardinals.

Jackson is two wins shy of 100 in his career.
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That went well

 
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