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Baseball has been getting gradually worse since the 80s. It is slightly better now than it was a couple years ago which was the worst it had been in 100 years. MLB has pretty much ruined the game with their greed. They took the national pastime and turned it into a boring mess that almost no youth give a poo poo about any more.
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Futrurama had a right idea, they should just turn it into blernsball already. That actually seemed somewhat interesting. I think there was giant spiders at one stage or something.
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Feb 28, 2024 02:44
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Waltzing Along posted:Baseball has been getting gradually worse since the 80s. It is slightly better now than it was a couple years ago which was the worst it had been in 100 years. The NFL and NBA aren’t far behind them.
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Feb 28, 2024 02:49
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Mountain Dew extreme baseball. Whole thing lasts two hours and is as intense as possible. they did this with Cricket in the 90s (it was even sponsored by Pepsi Max). Turns out even less people watch when you can't use it as an excuse for your extended day drinking.
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Feb 28, 2024 02:50
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They really aught to just let everyone juice like crazy. I watch sports because they are at the top of their game and I want to see the players min max their bodies like a Formula 1 car.
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Feb 28, 2024 03:38
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Waltzing Along posted:Baseball has been getting gradually worse since the 80s. It is slightly better now than it was a couple years ago which was the worst it had been in 100 years. honest question because I don't watch baseball, what changed? edit: definitely does not need to be comprehensive or even correct Eight-Six fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 03:41
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Waltzing Along posted:Baseball has been getting gradually worse since the 80s. It is slightly better now than it was a couple years ago which was the worst it had been in 100 years. This is exactly what happened with nhl hockey too something I loved as a kid but could not give two shits about now based on how off putting it all is.
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Feb 28, 2024 03:41
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George H.W. oval office posted:They really aught to just let everyone juice like crazy. I watch sports because they are at the top of their game and I want to see the players min max their bodies like a Formula 1 car. Ironically F1 has to put all sorts of self imposed limitations on cars otherwise people would be getting killed constantly like the bad old days.
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Feb 28, 2024 03:42
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George H.W. oval office posted:They really aught to just let everyone juice like crazy. I watch sports because they are at the top of their game and I want to see the players min max their bodies like a Formula 1 car. Has Peter Thiel got the sporting event for you https://twitter.com/SunSport/status/1759963620325343510
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Feb 28, 2024 03:45
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That was a Saturday night live skit from decades ago
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Feb 28, 2024 03:47
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sharknado slashfic posted:There's some particular brain malfunction that turns some people into Actual baseball fans who watch 100 games a season, and I say that as a baseball fan. I can't blame anyone for thinking baseball is boring because if you're not an Actual baseball fan it must be interminable. I must have a special version of that brain malfunction because I watch all 162 regular season Pirates games.
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Feb 28, 2024 03:47
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youll never convince me that trashing your body with drugs just to do 1/4 of what a Nissan Leaf can do is in any way aspirational
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sure okay posted:youll never convince me that trashing your body with drugs just to do 1/4 of what a Nissan Leaf can do is in any way aspirational It's gonna be really funny when all the times at the Steroid Olympics are bad because no real athletes would compete in it
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Feb 28, 2024 03:52
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Jose Oquendo posted:I must have a special version of that brain malfunction because I watch all 162 regular season Pirates games. Jesus Christ, the time commitment. Unlike me, a mental healthy person who spends his time watching drunk Midwesterners watch bad movies
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Feb 28, 2024 03:53
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sharknado slashfic posted:Never forget man i remember when ll cool j was a semi-respectable actor
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Feb 28, 2024 03:56
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PostNouveau posted:Jesus Christ, the time commitment. Or me someone who plays a couple hours of call of duty most nights getting sworn at by 12 year olds We all have our shameful pastimes 
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Feb 28, 2024 03:57
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sinnesloeschen posted:man i remember when ll cool j was a semi-respectable actor Uh my av is like a shark's fin Shittiest posts my av is like a shark's fin
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Feb 28, 2024 04:00
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priznat posted:Or me someone who plays a couple hours of call of duty most nights getting sworn at by 12 year olds I usually game while I watch sports, so I’m being yelled at by 12 year olds while I yell at the TV.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I usually game while I watch sports, so I’m being yelled at by 12 year olds while I yell at the TV. Ah the ol double dip
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Feb 28, 2024 04:01
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Jose Oquendo posted:I usually game while I watch sports, so I’m being yelled at by 12 year olds while I yell at the TV. call that the game & watch
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Feb 28, 2024 04:02
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priznat posted:That was a Saturday night live skit from decades ago
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Feb 28, 2024 04:03
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pangstrom posted:This take is not rare exactly but it's way more rare than I'd expect! I outed myself as both an old AND someone who watched snl skits in the days before YouTube, sad.
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Feb 28, 2024 04:05
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priznat posted:That was a Saturday night live skit from decades ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
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Feb 28, 2024 04:08
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Vim Fuego posted:call that the game & watch They get themselves hooked up on two stimulants at once. One screen is a bunch of fat rich guys jogging around a grassy square, the other is a bunch of hyperactive twelve year olds screaming homophobic insults. They call that the game and watch on the street
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Feb 28, 2024 04:25
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George H.W. oval office posted:They really aught to just let everyone juice like crazy. I watch sports because they are at the top of their game and I want to see the players min max their bodies like a Formula 1 car. Isn't that basically what is going on now? I thought steroid use has been an open secret for everyone who could benefit from them for decades now. Every time there is a buff actor or sports person or wrestler or body builder everyone treats it as a forgone conclusion that they've been roided to hell and back. The only people who seem to give a drat anymore are the Olympics and even they seem to be more of an arms race than anything else, also lol Russia.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I must have a special version of that brain malfunction because I watch all 162 regular season Pirates games. The O's have beaten me into the ground for most of my life but I have no complaints currently. Perennially bad baseball team fans absolutely have something broken psychologically.
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Feb 28, 2024 06:04
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sinnesloeschen posted:man i remember when ll cool j was a semi-respectable actor Yeah but have you checked out his hat? It’s like a loving shark fin!
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Eight-Six posted:honest question because I don't watch baseball, what changed? The main thing is analytics. Number crunchers found every way to break the game and it ruined it. And the league was slow to adjust to write rules to counter some of it. That's the short answer. The longer answer is analytics showed that many of the aspects of the game that were exciting were actually bad plays. Stealing bases, bunting, having pitchers pitch deep into games. All gone. It got so bad that players essentially were constantly playing out of position on the field. The league finally said okay enough. You guys have to stay relatively close to whatever position you are playing. And if you aren't going to steal, well we'll make the bases bigger which shortens the distance between them. And we will handicap the pitcher to make it even easier to steal. Another problem was that due to all this, the batters and pitchers were taking forever to do anything because they had to get into the perfect mindset, position or whatever to throw or hit which made games longer. So the league instituted a pitch clock. Oddly, the thing the fans want the most, that would make the biggest difference, they will not do. And that is use robot umpires to get near perfect strike zones all the time. Baseball, unlike football or basketball, can pretty much entirely be umpired by robots and fast instant replays. There is no reason to ever get calls wrong. But they won't do it for stupid reasons. Back in the 80s, the game had reached a pinnacle, of sorts. Years upon years of the game being played the same way and there were many valid ways to construct a team and have success. Then steroids took over and it was never the same again. Baseball has gone through a lot of changes, but the way the game was played was pretty constant for quite some time. Until analytics completely changed how everything was viewed.
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Miller calls david spade spadoodle lol
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Viewership skyrocketed last year and fans were generally responding well to the pitch clock and bigger bases influencing more steals so I don't see the problem there. Pitching deep got changed partly because of analytics saying that ERA increases as the pitcher rotates through the lineup but also because pitchers didn't want to blow out their arm and get three tommy john surgeries by the time they're 28. Fans of every sport bitch about their refs non stop and want something instituted in their place. Sure Angel Hernandez is a prick to watch but I don't think he's the reason people were tuning out. The real problem has always been their marketing. They let Trout's entire career go by without pushing him. Also baseball is boring as gently caress and should only be absorbed through longform youtube essays on Foolish Baseball or Baseball Doesn't Exist.
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Kevin costner could save baseball through the power of movies easily but instead he's locked in to four loving westerns. He has a lot to answer for
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He thinks he’s really a cowboy, it’s sad to see an old man get like that.
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bring back the Waterworld EU imho.
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the only balls I want discussed in the RLM thread are spaceballs
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No Mods No Masters posted:Kevin costner could save baseball through the power of movies easily but instead he's locked in to four loving westerns. He has a lot to answer for When you put it this way, I'm actually ok with his choice to make a few moipies I can easily just not watch.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Isn't that basically what is going on now? I thought steroid use has been an open secret for everyone who could benefit from them for decades now. Every time there is a buff actor or sports person or wrestler or body builder everyone treats it as a forgone conclusion that they've been roided to hell and back. The only people who seem to give a drat anymore are the Olympics and even they seem to be more of an arms race than anything else, also lol Russia. we're not gonna just say steroids are ok, because they're bad for you and it'd be hosed up to let that become a barrier for entry, but also the results are too good for everybody to just not do them anymore so corporations and athletic commissions pretend to be really serious about "wellness" testing, which they pretend is about health and not just averting suspicion, athletes pretend to follow the rules while building their harder-to-detect cycles of more tightly scheduled steroid abuse around when they're to be tested, actors pretend not to do them at all because nobody's checking anyway, and the public at large pretends it's all up to snuff until another scandal hits, and then everybody pretends to be shocked, and to show how very serious they are the people in charge make sure that every step in the process gets a teensy bit more complicated (as long as it's not enough to endanger the world's reserve supply of beefcake)
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Waltzing Along posted:The main thing is analytics. Number crunchers found every way to break the game and it ruined it. And the league was slow to adjust to write rules to counter some of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcF7xbdBhgs
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My extremely commonplace and uninteresting opinion about sports is the 30-45 minutes of actual game can sometimes be interesting, but it becomes an absolute slog when stretch over 3-4 hours of commercials and standing around and expert analysis. Everyone I've ever met who gives a drat about sports is older than me except one guy, and I'm getting old as poo poo. I have trouble seeing how this is going to last much longer.
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Argyle Gargoyle posted:Worth it even if I find Iannucci joints to be drivel? It's the only movie/show of his i've watched and i like it
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KakerMix posted:the only balls I want discussed in the RLM thread are spaceballs The only way my balls are getting to space is if Los Locos kick them there
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