Baseball now sucks (1 Viewer)

[Wrigley]

The friggen Dodgers, really?

 

[FairWarning]

Guess i'll have to put more on Wash and StL.

 

[FairWarning]

Must be nice not to have broke owners like the Cubs.

 

[fred_1_15301]

There should be a salary cap and salary floor (for scumbag organizations like the Pirates).

 

[MAC_32]

Don't think the lack of a cap is the problem. The other though...

 

[Wooderson]

So frustrating MLB doesn't have a salary cap/floor. Would make it a much better league. Any chance it will ever happen?

 

[whoknew]

So frustrating MLB doesn't have a salary cap/floor. Would make it a much better league. Any chance it will ever happen?

MLB has the most powerful union of any of the sports. So unlikely.

 

[whoknew]

MLB will bring back 7-inning doubleheaders & a runner will start on 2nd base in extra innings in 2021. There will be no expanded playoffs or universal DH.

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This is exactly the opposite of what they should have done.

 

[Wooderson]

MLB will bring back 7-inning doubleheaders & a runner will start on 2nd base in extra innings in 2021. There will be no expanded playoffs or universal DH.

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This is exactly the opposite of what they should have done.

Yep MLB great at getting it wrong. 

 

[RnR]

MLB has the most powerful union of any of the sports. So unlikely.

I think the union would be on board with a salary floor. They certainly would be anti-cap, but the luxury tax already functions as a soft cap of sorts.

 

[urbanhack]

Is Baseball Now a magazine?

 

[MAC_32]

MLB will bring back 7-inning doubleheaders & a runner will start on 2nd base in extra innings in 2021. There will be no expanded playoffs or universal DH.

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This is exactly the opposite of what they should have done.

I'm happy with nonexpanded playoffs. 

I don't hate 7 inning DH's and extra innings runner on 2nd so long as it stays out of the playoffs.

No universal DH though...idiots.

 

[Capella]

MLB will bring back 7-inning doubleheaders & a runner will start on 2nd base in extra innings in 2021. There will be no expanded playoffs or universal DH.

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This is exactly the opposite of what they should have done.

Great news but they should have also done the DH. 
 

My hot take is that Baseball should have ties after 10 innings. Football has them, hockey has a modified version of it. It’s like a 5000 game season, you can have some ties. 

 

[whoknew]

Great news but they should have also done the DH. 
 

My hot take is that Baseball should have ties after 10 innings. Football has them, hockey has a modified version of it. It’s like a 5000 game season, you can have some ties. 

I'd rather have ties than start a runner at 2b.

 

[Capella]

I'd rather have ties than start a runner at 2b.

Fine with that. 
 

No reason to be playing some dumb 18 inning game in sweltering June heat when there is another game 16 hours later and 105 games left on the schedule. 

 

[Gally]

I'd rather have ties than start a runner at 2b.

I don't mind it.  If you don't want to play it out why not put a runner on and see what happens?  Not having the DH extended though makes no sense.  

 

[Da Guru]

Great news but they should have also done the DH. 
 

My hot take is that Baseball should have ties after 10 innings. Football has them, hockey has a modified version of it. It’s like a 5000 game season, you can have some ties. 

I was always for playing until someone wins but not anymore.  That is OK in the playoffs but playing a 19 inning game in June makes no sense.

Hard to believe they did not put the DH in NL.   The time has passed for pitchers batting..most of the pitchers do not want to bat or run. Playing different rules in the WS is unheard of in pro sports.   

 

[RnR]

I was always for playing until someone wins but not anymore.  That is OK in the playoffs but playing a 19 inning game in June makes no sense.

Hard to believe they did not put the DH in NL.   The time has passed for pitchers batting..most of the pitchers do not want to bat or run. Playing different rules in the WS is unheard of in pro sports.   

DH is one of the few bargaining chips the owners hold going into the CBA negotiations this offseason. Value has diminished because everyone saw it was good last year and expects it to be a thing now, but I understand why they're holding on to it as leverage. We'll have the DH in 2022 and beyond.