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| Shohei Ohtani |
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Mustached Demon posted:Shame they keep three man boothing him and really just limiting him all together. He's got the perfect vibe to counteract the garbage on the field. I maintain that 3 man booths are terrible like 95% of the time, the only time I think it's ok is the Mets broadcast with Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez because they are pretty good about not talking over each other. Contrasting Deshaies the Cubs also have possibly my least favourite colour guy Rick Sutcliffe, he just never stops talking.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:TK’s a good PBP guy, it’s Blum I can’t stand. He’s so loving dumb and every single anecdote of his mediocre career has been told ten times over. Get Julia up in the box and let Blum run around the stands. I would imagine even if you had a career like Dusty Baker, you'd run out of stories eventually calling 150 games a year. I have to say it would be weird moving on from TK and Blummer since they've called basically all of the Astros' good run. They're a perfectly average announce team, so replacing them could go either way. I really hope Baggy isn't the answer here. He's fun for a couple games a season because you know he'll say something stupid, but also probably something funny or audaciously outside of announcing orthodoxy. I know Julia is safe because she's still doing work with the Rockets, so I wouldn't mind seeing her get a full-time PBP shot. She seems like she has a lot more to offer than "bubbly sideline reporter who can take a joke." Julia Morales and Jason Castro 2023!
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Jan 4, 2023 01:20
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Popete posted:I maintain that 3 man booths are terrible like 95% of the time, the only time I think it's ok is the Mets broadcast with Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez because they are pretty good about not talking over each other. They wanted Chris Meyers on PbP and Sutcliffe as the color guy. It took some angry fan feedback for them to go out and get Boog. They've been trying to push Deshaies out for a couple of years now. Feels like Len Kasper saw where this was going after Marquee became a thing and jumped ship. The whole network sucks and is filled with chuds or players Tom became friends with when he took over the team.
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Jan 4, 2023 01:26
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Kasper ruled and the Rickettses running him off is one of their biggest sins. (Respect for him for trying to get people to buy the cover story that he actually just wanted to do radio real bad, though)
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Jan 4, 2023 01:32
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Niwrad posted:They wanted Chris Meyers on PbP and Sutcliffe as the color guy. It took some angry fan feedback for them to go out and get Boog. They've been trying to push Deshaies out for a couple of years now. Feels like Len Kasper saw where this was going after Marquee became a thing and jumped ship. They extended DeShaies last year.
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Jan 4, 2023 02:08
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Popete posted:I maintain that 3 man booths are terrible like 95% of the time, the only time I think it's ok is the Mets broadcast with Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez because they are pretty good about not talking over each other. The Twins had some good three man booths this year too. Especially when the two color guys were a hitter and a pitcher. Morneau and Perkins especially were absolutely delightful. I think if the Twins replaced Bremer with Provus (currently the lead radio guy for the Twins) it would be a perfect booth.
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Jan 4, 2023 02:37
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Blind Pineapple posted:I would imagine even if you had a career like Dusty Baker, you'd run out of stories eventually calling 150 games a year. Julia did PBP for a few games during spring training years back and was pretty solid iirc. My guess is she’d have had a bigger role in the booth by now if not for two things; covid messing with broadcast team travel for two seasons, and her having a kid and subsequently showing up during fewer games.
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Jan 4, 2023 02:38
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Larry Anderson is my favorite color guy, listened to a bunch of Phillies playoff games and he owns.
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Jan 4, 2023 02:44
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I need a Bill Walton and Rick Sutcliffe booth
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Jan 4, 2023 02:45
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During the pandemic the Cubs regular tv broadcast duo Boog and Deshaies got held up for Covid testing and Doug Glanville had to last minute fill in doing a solo broadcast. He was mortified and despite doing a fine job he was completely unprepared to do PBP and it resulted in the funniest ~5 minutes of broadcast I've seen before Deshaies and eventually Boog joined the booth. This is the only clip I can find but the whole time you could just tell he was not ready for this. https://vimeo.com/597481308
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Jan 4, 2023 02:51
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the greatest booth ever was glen kuiper and the late ray fosse and as awesome as dallas braden is it just isn't the same now 
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Jan 4, 2023 02:54
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I like Francoeur and Moylan. Brian Jordan is not good I like Tom Glavine's early stints when he'd be silent for 4 innings and then randomly chime in with "good pitch"
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Jan 4, 2023 03:31
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I've decided I'm not going to be mad about the bad Hosmer signing, I can revoke this after watching him roll over his 40th consecutive grounder to the second baseman. Cubs are still refusing to go near the tax this year like cheap small market dipshits.
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Jan 4, 2023 03:35
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IcePhoenix posted:The Twins had some good three man booths this year too. Especially when the two color guys were a hitter and a pitcher. I would watch every single game.
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Jan 4, 2023 03:47
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They're not exactly a couple big signings away
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Jan 4, 2023 03:47
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In diverting the Ricketts’ money away from the Cubs lineup and into losing campaigns the GOP has finally earned my gratitude and respect.
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Jan 4, 2023 05:30
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Poque posted:how dare you Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him 
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Jan 4, 2023 06:16
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MLB.com has yet another article about which players will benefit most from banning the shift and the top guy is Corey Seager (shifted on in 93% of PAs) and they estimate that he would've had 20 additional hits over the course of a season, which would've raised his average from .245 to .278. Seems like in even the most extreme case the benefit to pull hitters will be marginal.
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Jan 4, 2023 16:07
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zoux posted:MLB.com has yet another article about which players will benefit most from banning the shift and the top guy is Corey Seager (shifted on in 93% of PAs) and they estimate that he would've had 20 additional hits over the course of a season, which would've raised his average from .245 to .278. Seems like in even the most extreme case the benefit to pull hitters will be marginal. How much will banning the shift impact Second Base defense? Will there be a newer need for better range at that position? I don't disagree with the assessment on the shift being marginal improvement. I wonder what some of the ripple effects of the ruling will have.
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Jan 4, 2023 16:15
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Forrest on Fire posted:How much will banning the shift impact Second Base defense? Will there be a newer need for better range at that position? Well, it's an all-things-being-equal assessment, some of those extra hits are going to be big time. How many two out rallies got strangled in the crib because one side of the infield was overloaded https://twitter.com/theathleticmlb/status/1610405749884157959?s=46&t=HoLv5umt7t3pfroTzznExg I bet it's less years. If he ends up signing anything close to the Astros offer I'm gonna lose it.
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Jan 4, 2023 16:16
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I’m so happy the shift is gone . God I hated it
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Jan 4, 2023 16:17
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zoux posted:I bet it's less years. If he ends up signing anything close to the Astros offer I'm gonna lose it.
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Jan 4, 2023 16:35
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I think all strategy should be removed from baseball and it should be all dingers all the time and banning the shift is a good first step (for fan enjoyment)
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Jan 4, 2023 16:36
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Disagree with that. Dingers only gets boring
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Jan 4, 2023 16:40
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maffew buildings posted:I think all strategy should be removed from baseball and it should be all dingers all the time and banning the shift is a good first step (for fan enjoyment) Well that's one outcome, but what about the others bawfuls posted:it’s just gonna be loaded up with playing time incentives Yeah apparently that's what Rosenthal said on the podcast itself
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Jan 4, 2023 16:41
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euphronius posted:I’m so happy the shift is gone . God I hated it Joey Gallo dares to dream of big numbers once again
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Jan 4, 2023 16:45
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maffew buildings posted:I think all strategy should be removed from baseball and it should be all dingers all the time and banning the shift is a good first step (for fan enjoyment) abandon the bunt at your own peril
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Jan 4, 2023 16:50
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Rules which directly dictate and limit specific strategies are dumb and lazy. If you don’t like a strategy for aesthetic reasons then devise more subtle changes to disincentivize it.
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Jan 4, 2023 17:01
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There are tons of rules that change how a game is played to make it more enjoyable to watch all over sports This isn’t new
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Jan 4, 2023 17:03
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Kirios posted:wtf is a Bligh Madris He is apparently, per Wikipedia, "the first Palauan to play in the major leagues". Born in Las Vegas in 96. Bats left, throws right... outfielder / 1B. Played for the Pirates a bit last season... Rays and Tigers both picked him up and considered him for a few weeks each and then ditched him.
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Jan 4, 2023 17:12
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Shinjobi posted:Joey Gallo dares to dream of big numbers once again 
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Jan 4, 2023 17:13
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Forrest on Fire posted:How much will banning the shift impact Second Base defense? Will there be a newer need for better range at that position? Better range will probably help but isn't 2B kind of already a weird dumping ground for guys who are too good defensively to play 1B but not good enough for the left side of the IF? I don't think this change leads to much of a developmental shift in the pipeline, if you'll excuse the pun.
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Jan 4, 2023 17:14
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bawfuls posted:Rules which directly dictate and limit specific strategies are dumb and lazy. If you don’t like a strategy for aesthetic reasons then devise more subtle changes to disincentivize it. I would simply hit it where they ain't I think we're going to see more outfield shifting with fielders coming in shallow to where they shift middle IFs now. Until they make that illegal.
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Jan 4, 2023 17:21
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maffew buildings posted:I think all strategy should be removed from baseball and it should be all dingers all the time and banning the shift is a good first step (for fan enjoyment)
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Jan 4, 2023 17:23
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euphronius posted:There are tons of rules that change how a game is played to make it more enjoyable to watch all over sports A good example would be outlawing double-teams and zone defense in the NBA. These are ham-fisted ways to discourage particular defensive strategies. They were made obsolete by the 3-point line, which created a new incentive to spread the floor and eventually led to those limitations on defensive strategy being lifted. MLB claims to be outlawing the shift because they want to encourage more balls in play. The shift is a very oblique approach to that goal and it is not obvious this change will even have the intended effect. It certainly isn't going to reverse 50 years worth of increased strikeout rates. They could attack the issue more directly by, for example, shrinking the strike zone vertically (a change that has precedent in MLB). But some old guys don't like looking at the shift so they just banned it instead.
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Jan 4, 2023 17:27
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zoux posted:I would simply hit it where they ain't Its possible but it seems like there's way more risk in an outfield shift than in infield shift. Its like if you hit it against the infield shift you might get double. If you hit it against an OF shift you might get an inside the park home run.
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Jan 4, 2023 17:28
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That is not the only reason they are banning the shift Nba is a bad example as it’s like the number one example of a league changing the rules to make it more fun to watch. Whatever if you liked the shift I am sorry . You can at least be happy that I will get more utils this summer watching mlb
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Jan 4, 2023 17:29
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I haven’t paid attention to hockey in 20 years but didn’t they eventually ban the neutral zone trap ? That was horrible
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Jan 4, 2023 17:31
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Bringing back what the fans really clamor for: seeing eye groundballs
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euphronius posted:I haven’t paid attention to hockey in 20 years but didn’t they eventually ban the neutral zone trap ? No they did not, they removed the two line pass offside. The "trap" is still a huge part of the game, players are just faster and more skilled now. When it was first conceived as a system, the trap was actually about pressure and creating transition offence, its just that most teams had too many lovely players to do the transition part effectively.
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