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  • this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,811
    Jearlpam0925 said:
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    It's a new era. Era of George.

    "I proclaim this....The Summer of George!"
    :lol:

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  • Posts: 34,026
    I was awfully confused at first too 
  • Posts: 34,026
    There were buzzers, folks


  • Posts: 19,302
    Mets offseason ...


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  • Posts: 41,359
    Cliffy6745 said:
    There were buzzers, folks


    If there was buzzers the MLB brass doesn't want it known.

    I've said this before, let the reporters keep on digging.  No way this doesn't get talked about by one of the team members or slips up.

    It would be one hell of a cover up if no one says anything.
  • Posts: 11,432
    https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/ex-mlb-pitcher-mike-bolsinger-suing-astros-sign-stealing-flop-ended-my-career/

    Hope he wins.
  • Posts: 41,359
    DewieCox said:
    https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/ex-mlb-pitcher-mike-bolsinger-suing-astros-sign-stealing-flop-ended-my-career/

    Hope he wins.
    My take on Mike B earlier in this thread:

    There is no exact science to it and needs some tweaking or combing over of more info.  That tweet is the perfect example of overreacting though.  People are going to run with that story and that player not being in the big leagues anymore and want people burned at the stake and not look into that player any further.

    He let up 126 earned runs in 230 ip over 4 years for a robust era of 4.92.  That .1 of an inning may have had something to do with him not playing but he wasn't going to be around much longer considering his previous outings unless he played all of his games against the Astros.

    He is now playing in Japan w an era of 4.42.
  • Posts: 19,302
    I could see he could make a claim that the Astros screwed him if he got called up for the first time and was immediately sent back down, never to return.  In such a circumstance, I would award him zero dollars but feel bad for him.  
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  • Posts: 11,432
    edited February 2020
    I think it’s funny more than anything. Seems it would be reasonable for some of their fines to go towards helping those guys on the fringe though.
  • Posts: 12,235
    Any thoughts on expanding the Playoffs?


    Report: MLB could allow teams to choose opponents in playoff expansion
    3h ago
    Daniel Shirey / Major League Baseball / Getty
    OAKLAND CA - OCTOBER 02 A detail shot of the Hankook Tires and the American League Wild Card logos in the dugout prior to the AL Wild Card game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum on Wednesday October 2 2019 in Oakland California

    Major League Baseball is considering an expansion to its playoff format from five teams to seven in each league beginning in 2022, reports Joel Sherman of the New York Post.

    Under this new format, the team with the best record in each league would get a bye into the Division Series while the other division winners would take turns choosing their opponent from the wild-card teams on live television.

    The club with the second-best record in the league would get first crack at picking an opponent. After the division winners make their selection, the remaining wild-card team with the best record would host the other leftover team.

    One key difference would be the elimination of the one-game playoff. The division winners - and top remaining wild-card team - would host all three games of a best-of-three wild-card round.

    Baseball's current structure - implemented in 2012 - has two wild-card teams in both the American League and National League. Those clubs face off in a one-game playoff with the winners advancing to their respective Division Series.

    These changes would need approval from the Major League Baseball Players' Association. The current collective bargaining agreement is set to expire after next season.

    If this plan comes to fruition, it would not be the first time MLB has expanded its postseason scope. The original wild card was introduced in 1995 with only one team per league qualifying when both leagues moved to a three-division format.

  • Posts: 31,273
    ^^^^ dumb.

    back in the day, TWO teams made the playoffs.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Deep South Philly Posts: 17,530
    Speaking of dumb rule changes. Jesus. I mean I like making the wild card series an actual series. But a bye and 14 (!!) teams? Come the fuck on.

    Give me 10 playoff teams - 3 game playoff WC, 7 game series LDS/LCS/WS; universal DH; geographic realignment and do away with the two leagues; and, sure, add two more expansion teams. I can live with these kind of changes. 
  • Posts: 4,957
    No
  • New Jersey Posts: 29,114
    I love it. 
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • Posts: 17,888
    Wobbie said:
    ^^^^ dumb.

    back in the day, TWO teams made the playoffs.
    Nobody on this board is old enough to remember that...except you of course.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • Posts: 11,432
    I love the way it is now. Wild card games are the most exciting days of the season and there are never 8 teams capable of winning the WS even if you count the teams that were average and got hot for a month.


  • Posts: 12,912
    just expand the wild card to 3 games.  1 game is dumb.  adding more teams doesn't make any sense either. Adding teams would expand the dates even further for the World Series.  it's already too far into November as it is.
  • this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,811
    Agree on WC expansion to three games.
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  • Deep South Philly Posts: 17,530
    Game 7 of this past World Series was on October 30th.
  • Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Rob Manfred needs to be stopped.  Jesus Christ he is ruining baseball.
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