This isn't new music, but i wanted some advice. A friend of mine turned me on to Grant Lee Buffalo this weekend, namely Mighty Joe Moon and i was curious as to whether any of you listen and if so, what albums besides that one might be worth picking up. I realize only a few of you might even know wh...
I still think one 30 sec TV spot could be taken out between innings, but you're right, the commercials don't intrude like in other US stick and ball sports. The biggest causes of 3+ hour games are batters frequently stepping out and pitchers taking too long between pitches. These really can't be bla...
I realize that sounds extreme, and I am overstating it for effect. I can enjoy AL ball, but I just can't seem to grasp any reasoning that would excuse the permanence of this bizarre, poorly though-out experiment designed to increase offense. There is no logic to it- why not allow DHs for every fiel...
In any event, I'll stick by my main point that the game wasn't designed with the notion that one batter be really, really bad and that it would make for better strategy. There's nothing to indicate the originators of the game had your ideas in mind 140 years ago. If they had, it would have been ver...
Sorry to hear the news about Medlen. I was really hoping he'd pull through like Shorty did last year. Here's hoping this IRL season gets off to a better start than Homestead last year. Based on qualifying, it looks like a bit of the gap has been closed to the red cars. I nominate Arni to replace Tom...
You start on shaky ground using Babe Ruth to illustrate your point. Ruth is the greatest player of all time and an exceptional case in every baseball sense. Pitchers of his era didn't hit like Ruth, hitters of his era didn't either. The truth of the matter is that going back to the 19th century, mos...
Still ain't buying the strategy argument. Strategies are slightly different in the NL but I don't think necessarily deeper. If managing a NL team was rocket science, Charlie Manuel wouldn't be capable of managing the Phils to a winning record two years in a row. The data doesn't support the more HR ...
The DH has been around for over 30 years and is a part of the sport at all levels. I'm not convinced by the argument that it decreases strategy. You sacrifice when you have a man on base with the pitcher spot coming up; that's not strategy, it's a no brainer. There are more double switches in the N...
I follow the NL because my home team plays there. But I acknowledge that the AL currently has better, deeper talent. I followed the AL when I lived in an AL city. The DH has been around for over 30 years and is a part of the sport at all levels. I'm not convinced by the argument that it decreases st...
Propose adding another pitcher slot. Current settings have 13 hitters and 7 pitchers, with 1250 max IP to be spread among the staff. Adding an 8th pitcher would do three things: -give more parity between hitters and pitchers -reduce avg IP per pitching slot from 179 to 156 -make the draft an even nu...
I'm not a huge fan of ALMS but the GT2 class finish at Sebring was sensational. To see a Ferrari and Porsche banging doors through the last two laps makes up for the lack of competition in the other three classes. It was also a nice maiden outing for the AGR Acura, but they were helped a lot by unch...
If every team only gets three keepers, that means there's a lot of talent available in the pool. I think you're better off keeping Holliday because that gives you more capital for this year's auction, plus he's undervalued at $18. I don't really think either $40 player is undervalued in a $300 cap l...