2022 Season | Series #19 | A's @ Guardians | June 9-12, 2020

[CDAV45]

The most important part of the schedule then! Let's see how these kids do against the playoff competitions...

The put the bat on the ball and run like hell will surely prevail against those all or nothing teams......right?

 

[CDAV45]

Does anyone subscribe to Peacock+?

I don't and I won't. This is BS and MLB needs to reconsider what it's doing and how it's doing it IMO.

 

[sportscoach]

I don't and I won't. This is BS and MLB needs to reconsider what it's doing and how it's doing it IMO.

If Peacock pays for the rights to some games, what does it matter to MLB?

The put the bat on the ball and run like hell will surely prevail against those all or nothing teams......right?

Well that's the hope!

 

[CDAV45]

If Peacock pays for the rights to some games, what does it matter to MLB?



Well that's the hope!

Boy you'd be a helluva public relations guy. If it comes down to where I can't watch them consistently on my cable network then I won't follow them. I'm not paying every other fucking provider more money.

 

[DCTribefan]

If Peacock pays for the rights to some games, what does it matter to MLB?



Well that's the hope!

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[buzzdog]

The put the bat on the ball and run like hell will surely prevail against those all or nothing teams......right?

My firm prediction is that some days it will work, and other days it won't work.

 

[CDAV45]

My firm prediction is that some days it will work, and other days it won't work.

My firm prediction is that it will work occasionally when/if our pitchers shut those big offenses down. Get to the playoffs and it will be another early exit.

 

[buzzdog]

My firm prediction is that it will work occasionally when/if our pitchers shut those big offenses down. Get to the playoffs and it will be another early exit.

Getting to the playoffs would surpass my expectations for this season, much the way the Cavs did. I'm definitely enjoying this ride compared to what preseason predictions I saw and heard. And if you get to the playoffs you always have a very slight chance that some guys can catch fire at the right moments in any given year, which makes it fun.

 

[sportscoach]

Boy you'd be a helluva public relations guy. If it comes down to where I can't watch them consistently on my cable network then I won't follow them. I'm not paying every other fucking provider more money.

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My kind of hot take/long take most peeps probably wanna skip over in a sense haha

Baseball is behind the times with things and they are very poor with doing things the right way with the customers to be sincere. I remember growing up, I ended up watching more Braves games than Indians because they loved to block out the Cleveland games in my area. Turner always made sure his Braves were on TBS, which a good majority of the nation could watch at the time, so I knew their team better when I was young. Baseball is losing some of its fans, not because of the pace of the game nor the love of the game, but because it's so much harder to access the game.

How many games are on free TV anymore? I bet you there are more football games on free TV than baseball and there is 10 times the amount of baseball games... you want to get the game onto everyone's TV not just people who have money.

In the past you would hear of stories of players from poor areas wanting and dreaming of becoming professional ball players. They would sneak into games and listen to the games on radios before TV. Lou Gehrig was one of them... His poor parents bought him the wrong type of glove since they wanted to support, but he still used it anyways with the local kids. Majority of the current baseball players mostly come from affluent families that have access to watch the game and fields to play the game.

If you want baseball to regain popularity, you need to stop looking at profit margins as the end all and get back to why the game was popular. Get everyone access and get everyone access to playing. Its not as simple anymore, but experience as kids are the most important in my mind. I grew up playing the game of course, but my parents always took me to games and my parents always let me watch games. Cutting minor league teams and making it expensive to watch the game, is going in the opposite direction they need to go.

I am mad honestly at my younger self since looking back, I would have played at least college ball if not made the minors, but that's life and it's easy to lose yourself when you stop caring about yourself...

@CATS44

This honestly a sincere question without any jokes intended, but what's the difference now to you between baseball as a kid and baseball now?

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

The put the bat on the ball and run like hell will surely prevail against those all or nothing teams......right?

We win six of seven against Oakland. A throwback team that relies on singles, doubles, and speed on the bases beat a modern team of launch angle home run hitters.

We even scored on a bunt. I felt like a time traveler. I'll bet some of the under 30 viewers (if there were any) were wondering, "Is that legal?"

 

[KilgoreTrout]

G’s picked up a full game today!

 

[CATS44]

Hmmm...

Players are bigger, faster, and stronger...and more athletic now.

More one inning relievers, which makes more starters five inning guys. But expansion has thinned out the pitching.

The strike zone is down to waist high, which is huge. Half the pitches that guys like Gibson and Drysdale threw would be balls today. And the mound is lower.

Launch angles.

Players cried when they struck out back then. In 1968, the last year of the letters high strike and the high mound, the Indians were second in the league in fewest Ks at about 14%. Now we are leading the league at 18%. I am not convinced that the pitchers have any bigger advantage now than those that got to throw heaters at the numbers from atop Mt Everest.

Players are not as fundamentally sound as they used to be. Defensively, its because players are so athletic they don't feel the need to be. Offensively, its because bunting and stealing bases are eschewed because of the DH and the stress put on hitting home runs.

IMO we are watching the Guardians play 1950s and 60s baseball right now.

Back then the Yankees were dominant, but they could be beat by a team that pitched, played defense, put the bat on the ball and ran like hell. (See 1964 St Louis Cardinals. They were seventh in a 10 team league in HRs)

Pitching is ahead of hitting today. Part of that is because of advanced analytics. But just as much of it is because hitters refuse to change from an approach that has proven not to work, and teams have drafted players with approaches that don't work.

Enter Chris Valaika.

 

[MadThinker88]

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I am mad honestly at my younger self since looking back, I would have played at least college ball if not made the minors, but that's life and it's easy to lose yourself when you stop caring about yourself...
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[MirORich]

My firm prediction is that it will work occasionally when/if our pitchers shut those big offenses down. Get to the playoffs and it will be another early exit.

Why compare to a team that can go out and add a 25M player at every position like the Dodgers or Yankees? Our outcome 9/10 times will be similar against those teams regardless of whether we are constructed as we currently are or as a more power oriented team.

And the way we are constructed currently is still a bridge to some of our highest ceiling players making it up here in the next few seasons(Espino, Williams, Valera, Roccio, and a few others)

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

Twins, White Sox, Royals and Tigers all lose. Yep,we picked up a game on everybody.