MLB blackout policies stink! That is all.
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Mason Michaels
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It's a round ball,and a round bat,and you're supposed to hit it square.
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
Baseball somehow has been the biggest money-making sport in America for decades. Idk where the money comes from, but they make stupid money for playing ball.
I love baseball, but regardless, one thing I always found humorous is how a young kid at bat in a crucial time in front of packed stadium going nuts is expected to hit a baseball coming at him at over ninety miles an hour from six feet away while a professional golfer expects perfect silence to hit a stationary ball off a tee
Mason Michaels
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They play 162 games + playoffs!
Mason Michaels
Verified User
Apples and oranges
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
I know, but still..
Of course it is, but comparing the expectations is humorous, especially given the pompous nature of golf “etiquette”
Mason Michaels
Verified User
That's about 10 times the chances to make money than a NFL team!
Mason Michaels
Verified User
There's nothing "pompous" of having class!
They aren't at a stadium with riff raff! They are in the country club!
You have to be an versatile athlete to excel in baseball, football players can be taught how to play one position and that is all they ever will have to do, only game the offense doesn't play defense, good baseball players are more of a sparse commodity
Didn't I say "pompous?"
Golf doesn't emulate class, in most cases, it only implies money, all country clubs aren't St Andrews, in fact, most just the opposite, and golfers are not only the most pampered individuals but also some of the biggest babies
Mason Michaels
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In some positions! But in football ,finding 32 NFL quality QB's to start is near impossible.
Mason Michaels
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Big difference with Golf,is it's all on you! Nobody is paying a salary, you have to play good enough to pay the bills!
Or you could be losing money!
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
Reds fans probably have it worse than you do.
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
I grew up watching major league baseball in the 1950s. Note the lower-case letters.
Unlike today, the expressions "American League" and "National League" referred to actual discreet and competing leagues with their own league administrations; they were not mere brand names of Major League Baseball (with upper case letters).
There were 154 regular season games, not 162, and both separate and discrete leagues felt that that 154 games were enough to identify who their league champions were.
The long regular season was rewarded. No need for playoffs.
As for the World Series, that wasn't merely the final round of some tournament that ended in freezing November.
That was a battle of champions in early October--held in the daytime. Both teams were already true league champions.
That was the baseball that I remember. Sixteen big league teams in only eleven cities.
Fifty straight years of franchise stability (1903-1952).
No west coast games that ended after 2AM.
I'm glad that I got to see it, because what we have now is tacky in comparison.
I'm glad that I got to see the real thing while it lasted.
I'll always remember shaking Ted Williams' hand.
Unlike today, the expressions "American League" and "National League" referred to actual discreet and competing leagues with their own league administrations; they were not mere brand names of Major League Baseball (with upper case letters).
There were 154 regular season games, not 162, and both separate and discrete leagues felt that that 154 games were enough to identify who their league champions were.
The long regular season was rewarded. No need for playoffs.
As for the World Series, that wasn't merely the final round of some tournament that ended in freezing November.
That was a battle of champions in early October--held in the daytime. Both teams were already true league champions.
That was the baseball that I remember. Sixteen big league teams in only eleven cities.
Fifty straight years of franchise stability (1903-1952).
No west coast games that ended after 2AM.
I'm glad that I got to see it, because what we have now is tacky in comparison.
I'm glad that I got to see the real thing while it lasted.
I'll always remember shaking Ted Williams' hand.
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
I don’t know. The teams that I’d like to watch the most are blacked out. All four of them. I was having some difficulty with my subscription to MLB online and even the lady I talked to on the phone (I happened to mention ‘in passing’ how much their policy stinks even though I knew this poor lady could do nothing about it) said, “Oh, you do live in a bad zip code.”
So I get to see all the teams that I want to lose …
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Yeah, they do. Way way back in the day I was a minor league player and our games were blacked out too. Well, delayed, you could hear the radio call after the game was over but still, kinda the same thing.