Oso planning to go pro
That follows a twenty year trend for mlb ratings as a whole. With 162 games a year broadcast on television, there is no juice in most mlb games. Ball games are still good social events so attendance is still solid but tv ratings are not impressive.
LOL, today Daryl Strawberry admitted he used to have sex with women between innings, he would point out a woman to the batboy and have him fetch her. He also allowed that he and Dwight Gooden might have had a threesome with a woman.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/former-cardinals-scouting-director-sentenced-to-months-for-hacking-astros/article_442f4c83-0de3-5b45-9fe9-8cd3736b6827.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-shareEx-Cardinals scouting director sentenced to 46 months. Let's see what MLB does to the Cardinals now.
Was catching up on news on Twitter, saw tweet of Sale's 8 IP, 1 H, 0 R...very next tweet in my feed, Final: Mariners 4, Sox 3. It's so White Sox.
I don't get it. He is at 100 pitches - why make a change?In Cleveland, Kluber goes 7 shutout innings with 85 pitches and he is pulled. Boom! 7 runs in a flash.I understand pitch counts - it's not like Koufax throwing 200+ pitches in a start and then being brought out of the pen for 3 innings on 1 day rest - but sometimes it just gets ridiculous.Maybe instead of trying to save their arms by pulling them when they are pitching great and under 100 pitches, the time to give them a break is when they have given up 3 or 4 runs in five innings and are at 75 pitches. In other words, give them a rest when they are throwing bad rather than when they are throwing great.
Agree 100%
And I didn't even mention the fact that Sale had thrown 9 pitches in the previous 10 days and Kluber just 14 pitches in the previous 10 days. They were both fully rested - no reason to pull them early when they ere pitching great.Simply a case of two managers costing their teams a win.
Twins fired Terry Ryan today.
I would say it looked like Sale was wilting a bit. He had 3 walks in the game, and 2 of them were in the 8th inning. His control was getting looser. After pounding the zone all night, he was losing his stuff a bit. I'd say Sale at 50% is still better than just about anyone else they could bring in.
The majors now play high school baseball, especially when it comes to pitching. Only thing missing is the aluminum bat.
Ozzie Guillen is one of my heroes for letting four straight pitchers throw complete game wins in the 2005 ALCS. Every other manager in baseball would have made the knee-jerk move to the pen.Hey ... I'm in a great mood tonight ... I'm about to brag just a teeny bit ...A couple hours ago, I had my first career walk-off hit in softball. Line-drive, bases-loaded single to right-center to cap a 7-run rally in the bottom of the last. One of my coolest feelings as an "athlete" (with the emphasis on those quotation marks).
Dis is watt floats yo boat? Here I thought you were gonna tell us 'bout da latest orgasmic escapades wit Mrs. LXXXII or such, hey?
Ozzie Guillen is one of my heroes for letting four straight pitchers throw complete game wins in the 2005 ALCS. Every other manager in baseball would have made the knee-jerk move to the pen.
I'm old enough to remember the golden age of starting pitching. 300 innings pitched was the standard by which you judged a starting pitcher.Think about it. Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Juan Marichal, Ferguson Jenkins, Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Mickey Lolich or Bert Blyleven. You didn't relieve these guys because it was an assault on their manhood. Koufax was throwing 99 mile an hour bbs in the eighth inning. You crossed Gibson and you lived to regret it.What were they doing different in those days?