Baseball Thread IV

a thought or question I'll throw out...

Why doesn't major league baseball do more to promote it's player draft? It seems almost like they want to hide it.

 

Easy: So Chris Berman will stay the fuck away.

 

... good point

 

The fucking lame-ass Cubs are down 1-0 to the Astros. Fire Dusty! [/loosercubsfanboys]

 

Thank you. I was just about to type that.

 

It seems like they are starting to do a little more with it. At least now you can find out who was drafted on that day.


It used to be they'd only release the No. 1 draft pick of each team, and it was hell trying to find out if a local high school player from your area was drafted or not and who he was drafted by.

 

i think the reason they used to keep it secret was so college coaches couldn't snatch up the best prospects and so kids wouldn't use college scholarships as leverage. now with the internet scouting is easier for a college coach, but i think the reason they don't do more to promote their draft is a complicated answer related to economics and the minor league systems. it has something to do with keeping the minor league system intact and not wanting colleges to steal all the good high school kids. if college coaches knew where to find and how to rank all the high school kids, more kids would go to college, which would dilute the talent level in the minor leagues -- they literally couldn't find enough players to stock a rookie league team. then there's the financial aspect -- if most prospects played in college, they'd get to the major leagues faster, so they'd have to be paid sooner rather than later.

 

And the Cubs just dropped two of three to the Astros in a series that Oswalt, Pettitte and Clemens didn't pitch in.

Oh, and Kerry Wood is going in for an MRI...

fuckfuckfuck

 

Ausmus hit an effin' bomb, didn't he?

Lameass decision by the official scorer on the first Cubs' hit, too. WTF?

 

Any ball hit into the rinky-dink Crawford boxes can't be called a bomb. What is it? 250 feet from home plate down the LF line there?

 

Hit up high off the beige concrete fascia and bounced down -- at least, that's the way it looked on TV from the way the fans out there were turning around to look up. First time in a while I knew a ball was gone just by the swing.