I'm sorry I don't meet your mlb caring expectations. I guess I'll just sell my old jersey and stop paying any attention all together. Thanks for setting me straight.
It is kind of ridiculous not to know who he is even as a casual fan lol
I haven't seriously paid attention since the year Chipper retired. Wasnt specifically because of that, I just haven't been interested, and I've been focusing more on work and shows. I don't even know half the players on the Braves.
I'm baffled at McGriff still being on there. I love him as a player for the clutch moments with the braves, but he's not really HOF.
He's off the ballot now since it was his 10th year, but he'll get in when the Eras committee is allowed to consider him. He's not a lock, but if a guy who was considered a pure DH in Edgar Martinez can get in, you can make a case for McGriff. The steroid era killed the perception of his numbers.
Harper and Machado need to sign already. Don't know if it's the agents demanding stupid money or the owners not wanting to pay them what they're worth but this is taking way too long. The MLB is definitely headed for a strike if something doesn't change.
Probably too late for that, given that the best hitter in baseball last year didn't sign until well into spring training. Good way to kill off interest in your sport.
We talk about this a lot on another forum that I post on and a pretty popular solution is to just make everything cheaper. MLB likes to complain about not enough young people watching baseball but I think they don't show up for games because everything is so damn expensive. When I went to Camden Yards last year for Player's Weekend, the cheapest seats I got were $90 before fees for 1st row behind the RF wall and the most expensive being almost $250 each for 3rd row behind the Yankees dugout. Good beers were at least $8 and hotdogs and nacho trays were like $6-7 each. That's a ton of money to spend on a single game. If you have kids and wanna take them to a game, you're lookin at at least $500 if you want good seats. Not a lot of people in the 18-25 age range wanna spend hundreds of dollars every weekend to see their favorite team play because not a lot of them have that kind of money to spend. There's 81 home games in a season. I'm sure if they dropped ticket and concession prices even a little bit, they'd see a huge spike in attendance.
Fuck the Indians. They've been trying to trade away their best pitchers all offseason to shed payroll and now they're trying to low-ball one of their aces in arbitration. They're one of the best teams in the AL and probably one or two pieces away from being a WS contender but they wanna throw it all away and start over because they don't wanna pay their players. Fucking disgusting. I'm against most of these proposed rule changes but I think penalizing teams that tank is a great idea. Some of these owners should be forced to sell their teams if they're not even gonna try to be competitive.
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Not yo mention apparently also injured a lot for the past two seasons.
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Fuck the Indians. They've been trying to trade away their best pitchers all offseason to shed payroll and now they're trying to low-ball one of their aces in arbitration. They're one of the best teams in the AL and probably one or two pieces away from being a WS contender but they wanna throw it all away and start over because they don't wanna pay their players. Fucking disgusting. I'm against most of these proposed rule changes but I think penalizing teams that tank is a great idea. Some of these owners should be forced to sell their teams if they're not even gonna try to be competitive.