Patrick Sun
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Congrats to 3 Braves (Bobby Cox, Tommy Glavine and Greg Maddux) getting inducted into the Hall of Fame later today.
About all I can say is, "Wow."Ockeghem said:
You're a lefty?Dennis Nicholls said:I'll have to get my glove restrung. It's a Rawlings "Tom Tresh" LH fielder's glove from circa 1962.
Length of games remains an issue for baseball. Sunday night's game was woefully slow. It took almost three hours to play the first five innings. I have no idea what ESPN's ratings were for the game -- nor do I care. But in an otherwise competitive game featuring two longtime rivals and offering plenty of offense, my guess is that whatever the number was, it dipped considerably halfway through. And it wasn't just TV viewers turning off at home; by the seventh inning, in a one-run game, on a summer night with no school to worry about the next day, the ballpark was about half-empty by the seventh inning. One more time: This. Cannot. Be. Sustained. Look, I'm not in favor of a clock to make a pitcher deliver the ball within a given time frame. I'm not a sloppy sentimentalist either, who waxes on about the beauty of baseball is that there is no clock. But when regular season games drone on to the near four-hour mark and paying customers are giving up and going home rather endure the glacial pace, baseball had better do something. Maybe limit mound visits by catchers and pitching coaches. Maybe cut back on warmup tosses. Maybe prohibit the incessant stepping in and out of the batter's box and the endless (and needless) adjustments of batting gloves. Something has to be done. Baseball's sometimes languid pace is part of its charm, but somewhere, the game has become a snorefest at times, slow enough that even longtime fans want to tap on the glass and see if baseball is still alive -- or just napping.
Nope. No one can speak for everyone. That's true.Ockeghem said:Thanks Mike. He doesn't speak for all fans. For my own part, I have never minded (nor will I ever mind) the length of baseball games.
Too many Red Sox fans in this thread for this lone Yankee fan to contend with. Another rough season, but I enjoy seeing some young pitchers like Betances and Greene pitch well.RolandL said:I don't see any Yankee fans in previous posts, but I amazed how well they are playing with 4/5 of their starting pitchers being injured. I was surprised they did so well with the latest series with Detroit. I hope they make it to the playoffs just for Jeter.