Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

Albert Pujols is having the worst season for a 37-year-old in MLB history

 

23 home runs and a .392 slugging percentage? That's tough to do.

Also. "37." Hehe.

 

Is it? Why?

 

Oops, calculated incorrectly. A peso is worth about a nickel, not a half a buck. Now we know Ragu does not read this thread or I would have already been corrected.

 

The symbol for a peso is the same as for a dollar ($) ... once I was at a conference in Cancun (who says academia doesn't sometimes have its perks?) and sat me down at the hotel's nice bar for a margarita. It was so good, I had another. It was late, I was tired, it had been a stressful day, and I had already spent a shitpile of money. Came the bill for $240 and I about shit.

 

Because I don't have much tolerance for endangering children when the cost of safety is so small. I got deeper into this with some guy on Facebook (a friend of a friend), who claimed that the extended nets added to the emasculation of the game. I'm not saying this is your argument. Maybe an extension of it.

The game also needs young fans. I think most of us that love baseball developed that affection going to games when we were small. I think it is important to make sure parents feel safe bringing the next generation of fans to the games. I get the idea of choosing safer seats, but why not make more seats safe when it is so easily done?

 

I don't care about emasculation of the game or whatever that's supposed to be. It doesn't affect the game at all. But statistically speaking, what's the point? How many fans attend games in an MLB season and how many are seriously hurt by batted balls? As far as I know, none have ever been killed. I'd wager there are more fans seriously injured in alcohol-related incidents each year than by batted balls, but you know they aren't going to shut off the suds.

I think people ought to use their heads when they attend a game. If you're someone who is often distracted by your phone and doesn't really pay much attention to the game, then third row along the first base line is maybe not the best place for you to sit. And you certainly shouldn't bring a small child into those seats (hell, the cost alone ought to make people think twice about putting a child in those seats when they're probably only going to last three innings anyway).

I'd just like to see the data on fan injuries that could be prevented by such measures.

 

Which is fair, but I come back to the idea that one incident like yesterday is too many, especially when it is preventable.

 

Killed by a foul ball? Or killed by any circumstance? People have died at MLB stadiums.

 

One was, in the '70s, I think, at maybe Dodger Stadium from a foul ball by Reggie Smith or Dusty Baker.

 

Looked it up. It was off the bat of Manny Mota.

Foul play

 

Wow, the little girl who got hit last night looks just like my daughter.