MLB 2025 Season

RW81233 wrote:

Cheerleading is a huge part of the Dominican Winter Leagues. This is from the team I saw in January http://www.escogido.com/app/chearleaders.aspx. They get up on the Dugout every 2-3 innings and do some choreographed dance while the players watch from below - outrageous.

is kenny powers playing in that league next year?

haha...no but Karim Garcia played for Escogito, and a few students and I chanted Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeedrooooooo, Peeeeeeeeeeeedrooooooo when he came up to the plate, then he struck out and gave us a death stare. I stopped but they followed him out to left field which was right next to the other team's bullpen. The story they tell is that they started chanting "Who eese" "Karim Garcia", and the bullpen started rolling while he got pissed and started yelling "Pedro's a bitch" then threatened to fight them. I'm not sure how true it is (it very well could be b/c they came back with dip and autographed baseballs from the bullpen players), but he definitely pulled himself out of the game in the 8th inning.

Either way go to a game in Santo Domingo it's unlike anything you've ever seen. You can buy 6 packs of Presidente for a negotiated price usually 300-400 pesos (or 9-10 bucks), bottles (yes bottles) of Anejo rum for 350 pesos, and empanadas are 100 pesos. The players are usually longtime major leaguers or youngsters trying to make a name for themselves, and it's fun as hell.

fuck the twins...and fuck the fake baseball playing American League. Ray Allen would be a relevant player in the NBA if they had a designated shooter, but they don't because you actually have to play the game.

RW81233 wrote:

fuck the twins...and fuck the fake baseball playing American League. Ray Allen would be a relevant player in the NBA if they had a designated shooter, but they don't because you actually have to play the game.

Ha ha, I like this one. A DH is like a football player. Just does one thing.

If you can't play defense you should be... retired.

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

fuck the twins...and fuck the fake baseball playing American League. Ray Allen would be a relevant player in the NBA if they had a designated shooter, but they don't because you actually have to play the game.

Ha ha, I like this one. A DH is like a football player. Just does one thing.

If you can't play defense you should be... retired.

A DH can field about as well as a pitcher can hit. A pitcher essentially does one thing as well.

You AL fans come off as completely snobbish and douchebag-ish with your "The NL will have the DH eventually" shit. No, the NL will NOT have the DH. We will continue to play REAL baseball for a long time. You guys enjoy your beer league softball.

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

You AL fans come off as completely snobbish and douchebag-ish with your "The NL will have the DH eventually" shit. No, the NL will NOT have the DH. We will continue to play REAL baseball for a long time. You guys enjoy your beer league softball.

It's not snobbish, it's just the way the game is going. There is too much money involved and if one is going to change, it's the NL.

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

You AL fans come off as completely snobbish and douchebag-ish with your "The NL will have the DH eventually" shit. No, the NL will NOT have the DH. We will continue to play REAL baseball for a long time. You guys enjoy your beer league softball.

It's not snobbish, it's just the way the game is going. There is too much money involved and if one is going to change, it's the NL.

The reason there's too much money involved is that certain players are going to get paid $30M when they're 42 years old and will need to sit in a rocking chair at 3B if there isn't a DH rule.

Your argument about pitchers getting hurt batting or running bases or whatever is bs. You can name one example. The Rockies Mike Hampton contract was a disaster because, guess what, he couldn't pitch. He actually bashed HR's left & right in that place.

The 81 wrote:

hmm...what if...

every position was DH eligible.

SS is a fielding position. flash the leather and earn some cash.

That is the logical next step. Just make baseball like football - 9 guys play offense, 9 other guys play defense. Sounds great, huh? :roll:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

This argument isn't going anywhere.

I'll sum up your argument:

My pitcher, Wang, got hurt running around the bases, so pitchers shouldn't bat.
My team has a guy signed until he's 42 so I need there to be a DH position for him to play.
There is a DH rule now, and that can't possibly ever change.
My manager's giant binder would explode if he had to make actual decisions in a baseball game.

tcaporale wrote:

I find the "AL is beer league softball" or that it's "not real baseball" comments far more snobbish than anyone defending the DH.

Maybe snobbish is the wrong word. The argument is basically - the DH is here, so get used to it. Well, astroturf used to be here, and steroids used to be here, and ugly concrete mausoleum stadiums used to be here, and we (mostly) got rid of all those. So why can't we get rid of the DH?