MLB to Small Town America: Drop Dead

I think I saw it'll be a 138 game schedule, with six-game series. So if my math is right, that's about 20 games against each team and three series against each, so it'd be a max of two road trips to each opponent. That's not too bad. They normally played five-game series before this.

 

MLB really wants to go to the Euro youth academy route; they want young players to attend skills drills and physical training sessions until they're about 24. They don't particularly care if they play games at all.

 

That will just result in a bunch of sabermetric dream dates who can't play baseball to save their lives.

 

This might be the stupidest thing I've ever seen from baseball management. And that's saying a lot, as we all know.

 

I retired from professional baseball fandom in September 2019 when Marty Brennaman signed off for the last time. I feel better about that decision with every passing month.

 

The G League bows in your general direction.

 

The Sunday doubleheaders in the Chik-fil-A League are going to be kind of awkward.

 

And the Lord sayeth to Noah, send a mating pair of seven-piece Nuggets to bring forth my people from bondage, so that they may enjoy the fruits of the workers making below minimum-wage salaries on a field of clover, in the land of milk and honey (and $2 beer evenings). Amen.

 

It’s almost as if MLB is making these changes to cover up that Jesus can’t hit a curveball.

 

It’s the Chick-fil-A League Monday through Saturday, and The League To Be Named Later on Sundays.

 

I know Brennaman did very little television with the Reds and was generally only on radio. But when Brennaman in the 70's started many teams rotated their announcers between radio and television. Harry and Skip Carey, Vin Scully and many more were exposed on radio and television. And they became huge local icons. but when virtually every game went on cable the radio and television duties were split.

I have always thought that was a mistake. I think teams should expose their lead announcers as much as possible in order to increase fan interest. I am not sure why they don't.

 

Can't say what the case was east of the Rockies, but until the 70s and 80s, when satellite technology boomed, the Giants would televise only the games in Los Angeles back home, then San Diego when the Padres were created. So, it was easier (and cheaper) for, say, Russ Hodges to do 1-3 on TV, switch with Lon Simmons and do 4-6 on radio, then finish up on TV. The Dodgers for years only carried Sunday away games. Now with nearly every game televised, the local TV team are as much the "Voice of the (team)" as the radio guys.