2021 MLB Regular Season thread

Yankees strick out 17 times and won. 31 ks in the game.

Scherzer or no, painfully unwatchable.

 

Currently in use on the Detroit Tigers Radio Network as bumper/theme music:

 

From USA Today: Pardon the Twins for praying normalcy returns next year in baseball with traditional nine-inning games and no ghost runners in extra innings. They entered Saturday with an 11-8 record in normal nine-inning games, but 0-11 in all others (0-7 in extra-inning games and 0-4 in seven-inning doubleheaders).

 

What financial pressure are baseball owners under to have 7-inning doubleheaders or shorter extra-inning games? The players get paid the same if they play 7, 9, or 15 innings. Same with the concession staff, ushers, broadcasters, etc.
If the argument is "50 years ago, people would have gladly watched both halves of a nine-inning doubleheader, and if the second game went 14 innings, all the better," well, OK. But I don't think that prefigures a collapse.

 

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

 

Yeah, that's what I asked him.

 

Bill James is increasingly becoming that red 1980s sports car sitting in the garage from back when 280 horsepower was a big deal that you could now dust with a modern four-door sedan.

 

Joining the Raiders in Vegas?

Oakland Athletics to start looking at relocating elsewhere, sources say (espn.com)

I find it fascinating that since 1909, the franchise has only played in three stadiums, Shibe Park, KC Municipal and the Oakland Coliseum.

 

Indians have been playing even longer, always in Cleveland, and in three different stadiums.

 

Thinking about it, maybe I shouldn't be that impressed, Dodgers have only played in three homes since 1913, and one of those was only three seasons. It just that the Braves and Rangers change stadiums more frequently than some of us change cars.