2021 Around MLB: Return of the Dead Ball Era

[LL3]

In advance of the season I thought the White Sox starting pitching would prevent them from winning the Division, but I am certainly not burying them yet...much as with the Tribe, let's give it a month or more and see where we are. It will likely be a very competitive division.

 

[Benway]

Joe West awarded a half-million dollars in lawsuit

Terrible ump, but don't tell him I said so.

 

[WhoAzcue]

Guess the Tigers are for real. They finally beat someone good.

 

[WhoAzcue]

Anyone else see where a White Sox game that was cancelled last week has been rescheduled later in the season as a split admission doubleheader? That's kind of the norm these days, but here's the rub: each game of the split admission doubleheader is only going to be seven innings!

Now I don't know about you, but I regard that as a massive rip-off, and should be grounds for a class action lawsuit.

Would YOU be happy exchanging your tickets for a nine-inning game for one of these seven-inning games?

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Anyone else see where a White Sox game that was cancelled last week has been rescheduled later in the season as a split admission doubleheader? That's kind of the norm these days, but here's the rub: each game of the split admission doubleheader is only going to be seven innings!

Now I don't know about you, but I regard that as a massive rip-off, and should be grounds for a class action lawsuit.

Would YOU be happy exchanging your tickets for a nine-inning game for one of these seven-inning games?

Yep. It wouldn't bother me one bit.

 

[WhoAzcue]

Yep. It wouldn't bother me one bit.

It's one thing to purchase something you want up front, and I don't begrudge those of you who prefer baseball being played in bite-sizes, but if you actually bought something that was a nine inning game and suddenly you're told it's only a seven inning game--hey, we're going to take twenty minutes out of this movie, OK?--it just seems high-handed to me.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

It's one thing to purchase something you want up front, and I don't begrudge those of you who prefer baseball being played in bite-sizes, but if you actually bought something that was a nine inning game and suddenly you're told it's only a seven inning game--hey, we're going to take twenty minutes out of this movie, OK?--it just seems high-handed to me.

I think it's odd that you attach the value to the length of the event.

I wouldn't pay extra for a soccer match that had 120 minute halves instead of 45. I wouldn't pay extra for a 25 inning game of baseball. I wouldn't find it more valuable to watch the Masters if it were on a 27-hole course.

To each his own. You don't like it, I'm sure you can get a refund or an exchange for a different game.

 

[jup]

Anyone else see where a White Sox game that was cancelled last week has been rescheduled later in the season as a split admission doubleheader? That's kind of the norm these days, but here's the rub: each game of the split admission doubleheader is only going to be seven innings!

Now I don't know about you, but I regard that as a massive rip-off, and should be grounds for a class action lawsuit.

Would YOU be happy exchanging your tickets for a nine-inning game for one of these seven-inning games?

Most people would probably smile and think :

Good I don't have to sit there for an extra 40 minutes or feel guilty about leaving early

Ha Ha Ha

 

[LL3]

Anyone else see where a White Sox game that was cancelled last week has been rescheduled later in the season as a split admission doubleheader? That's kind of the norm these days, but here's the rub: each game of the split admission doubleheader is only going to be seven innings!

Now I don't know about you, but I regard that as a massive rip-off, and should be grounds for a class action lawsuit.

Would YOU be happy exchanging your tickets for a nine-inning game for one of these seven-inning games?

This is a real bonus for all the people that think baseball games are too long. With a new collective bargaining agreement coming, this could be a regular feature, like Dollar Dog Night!

 

[macbdog]

Anyone else see where a White Sox game that was cancelled last week has been rescheduled later in the season as a split admission doubleheader? That's kind of the norm these days, but here's the rub: each game of the split admission doubleheader is only going to be seven innings!

Now I don't know about you, but I regard that as a massive rip-off, and should be grounds for a class action lawsuit.

Would YOU be happy exchanging your tickets for a nine-inning game for one of these seven-inning games?

They should give a voucher to attend any two innings of a game of their choice.

 

[WhoAzcue]

To each his own. You don't like it, I'm sure you can get a refund or an exchange for a different game.

Have you ever tried to do that? Those people who bought tickets for the original game that day...do you think they are being offered the right to exchange them?

I'm frankly startled at the reaction to this here. It certainly isn't the way Sox boards are reacting. Guess it's true; Clevelanders really don't like baseball all that much. Gimme a seven inning game, or hell, five innings is "regulation"...I'll take that!

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Have you ever tried to do that? Those people who bought tickets for the original game that day...do you think they are being offered the right to exchange them?

I'm frankly startled at the reaction to this here. It certainly isn't the way Sox boards are reacting. Guess it's true; Clevelanders really don't like baseball all that much. Gimme a seven inning game, or hell, five innings is "regulation"...I'll take that!

As an Indians season ticket holder, I constantly moved my tickets around willy-nilly with no restrictions. They couldn't have made things more convenient for me.

At one point I consolidated my two tickets from like 12 different games into one game for a work outing.

Surely you can see your leap from "People aren't outraged over a double-header being reduced from 9 innings to 7" to "YOU DONT LIKE BASEBALL!" is nonsensical, right?

 

[LL3]

Have you ever tried to do that? Those people who bought tickets for the original game that day...do you think they are being offered the right to exchange them?

I'm frankly startled at the reaction to this here. It certainly isn't the way Sox boards are reacting. Guess it's true; Clevelanders really don't like baseball all that much. Gimme a seven inning game, or hell, five innings is "regulation"...I'll take that!

I would prefer a 9 inning game, but I do believe that players and management agreed to 7 inning double headers, so I get it, and in context, I am fine with it. Could the Sox do better by their ticket buyers? Absolutely

 

[WhoAzcue]

As an Indians season ticket holder, I constantly moved my tickets around willy-nilly with no restrictions. They couldn't have made things more convenient for me.

At one point I consolidated my two tickets from like 12 different games into one game for a work outing.

I stand corrected. I wasn't aware there was this kind of flexibility.

 

[WhoAzcue]

I would prefer a 9 inning game, but I do believe that players and management agreed to 7 inning double headers, so I get it, and in context, I am fine with it. Could the Sox do better by their ticket buyers? Absolutely

I don't believe there were any split-admission double headers last year at all.