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2011-12 Hot Stove Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by bigpern23, Oct 31, 2011.

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  1. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Players, owners have verbal agreement on a new five-year CBA:

    http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7251557/major-league-baseball-players-owners-reach-verbal-agreement-contract-according-report

    That was easy ...
     
    Steak Snabler, Nov 18, 2011
    #349
  2. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Agree completely.
     
    buckweaver, Nov 18, 2011
    #350
  3. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Fact: The National League and Japan's Central League are the only two professional leagues in the world, at any level, without the DH.

    I'm a National League guy through and through, but the universal DH is inevitable. Might as well just make it happen now. Everyone who actually plays baseball today has grown up playing with the DH at all levels. It's time.
     
    buckweaver, Nov 18, 2011
    #351
  4. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    I guess I just don't understand the obsession with having pitchers hit - It's like having another Rey Ordonez in the lineup. It does add "strategy" to the game by forcing the managers to do something, but I was under the impression most people watched baseball for the players, not to see NL skippers waddle out for double switches.
     
    sgreenwell, Nov 18, 2011
    #352
  5. That 1 Guy

    That 1 Guy Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    The one thing I don't like about the two wild cards playing a one-game playoff is that say some team locks up that first wild card with 3 weeks to go and the other spot gets locked up on the last day. Now the wild card team that has been in for longer is essentially playing Game 163. I'd at least like to see it be a best-of-3 series.
     
    That 1 Guy, Nov 19, 2011
    #353
  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    The Colorado Rockies have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
     
    HanSenSE, Nov 19, 2011
    #354
  7. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Why not just add two wild cards per league and make the top two records mean something? Top two get a bye, then the other four do a best of five, then best of 7, best of seven ALCS?
     
    Della9250, Nov 19, 2011
    #355
  8. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    And the World Series would end on Nov. 15.
     
    Steak Snabler, Nov 19, 2011
    #356
  9. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Add 3 scheduled double-headers a season and this works for me.

    The one-game play-in game is stupid, unless your someone like Texas-San Antonio.

    Wait, what?
     
    TigerVols, Nov 19, 2011
    #357
  10. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    I don't like a team being in a league for half a century and then moving (snaps fingers), just so Bud can wipe his ass after another mess of his own making.
     
    Herbert Anchovy, Nov 19, 2011
    #358
  11. derwood

    derwood Active Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7255517/new-major-league-baseball-cba-include-testing-hgh-according-sources
     
    derwood, Nov 19, 2011
    #359
  12. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Sensing a void in the wake of Lance Armstrong's retirement, Barry Bonds put his PED expertise to good use yesterday in Phoenix as he launched his new career:

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    TigerVols, Nov 20, 2011
    #360
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