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Postby Spargo » Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:05 pm

Houston stay alive & take it to a game 6.
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Re: MLB

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:16 pm

Spargo wrote:Houston stay alive & take it to a game 6.
When they're hitters get going they simply overpower our pitchers.

Gonna need a miracle for the Braves to win it from here.

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Postby Wedgie » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:33 pm

Braves 6 -0 after 5 innings.
Surely the World Series is theirs.
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Postby Booney » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:57 pm

Yep, they don't come back from there. Not sure if I'm happy or not.
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Postby Jim05 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:58 pm

Booney wrote:Yep, they don't come back from there. Not sure if I'm happy or not.
I am, screw the Astros
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Re: MLB

Postby Wedgie » Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:03 pm

Braves win.
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Re: MLB

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:04 pm

Incredible.

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Re: MLB

Postby Booney » Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:46 am

Not sure if any of you have been keeping up with this, but :

The clock is ticking on the 2022 MLB season. But that clock may as well be melting like a Dali painting.

Baseball’s owners and players are no closer to striking a new pay deal - Collective Bargaining Agreement, to be precise - than they were on December 1 when MLB locked out the players.

It didn’t help that the two sides barely met over the first two months of this work stoppage, but they remain a huge distance apart, and with Spring about to begin in the northern hemisphere, it raises the question... are we going to play games this year, or what?

At this stage, there is no doubt the season will be impacted in some form; it’s just a matter of how much.

Pitchers and catchers were supposed to report to Spring Training, the traditional month-and-a-bit-long training camp that sees teams relocate to the warmer climates of Arizona or Florida, this week. They couldn’t.

With no quick resolution to the lockout in sight, Spring Training will be partially, or more likely fully, lost. That in itself is a loss for the owners, who have turned exhibition games into another source of revenue, while most veteran players find the length of it unnecessary.

The regular season is scheduled to begin on March 31 (April 1 AEDT), but players would need at least a couple of weeks to ramp up before that - so if an agreement can’t be struck by mid-March, games will be lost and almost certainly not made up.

So what exactly is the dispute that may see MLB games lost for just the fourth time in history?

There are a few issues. One has been solved - the designated hitter is going to be brought in for the National League, joining the American League, meaning NL pitchers will no longer need to hit.

While traditionalists aren’t happy, this is a good change, because pitchers have become so utterly useless at hitting that there’s no intrigue as to whether they’ll make a difference on the scoreboard.

Tanking is a problem. Teams know they’ll make a bunch of money each year because of their TV deals, so whether you’re a Pittsburgh - who seem to accept being uncompetitive - or a Tampa Bay - who keep contending for the World Series while paying less money than almost every franchise - spending is down overall.

The success of Houston in tanking to an extraordinary degree and then finding major success (banging on a rubbish bin helped, but let’s not get into the cheating saga) has empowered other teams to give up winning for years at a time in an effort to win a World Series half-a-decade down the road. And this, unsurprisingly, has left many fans frustrated.

A draft lottery, like the NBA, may be introduced to partially limit tanking but it doesn’t quite work the same way in baseball. In basketball when you draft a top prospect, they might turn your team around straight away. In baseball, you’re looking at an impact in two or three years at the earliest.

There’s also the question of expanding the playoffs - the owners want it, to sell the extra games, and the players seem happy to go along with it as long as they’re getting something in return.

So for the most part, unsurprisingly, this lockout is about money. Growth in the amount paid by TV networks over the last two decades has seen an explosion in team profits and values - after all, baseball teams play 162 games a year plus the playoffs, so that’s a lot of games to air.

But sports leagues have disputes over how to split money all the time. Why has this lockout become so problematic, and dragged on for so long?

Well, the public comments of MLB commissioner Rob Manfred - who has quickly become widely disliked for his aggressive focus on growing the game’s short-term finances, with a perception he doesn’t even like baseball - aren’t helping.

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Re: MLB

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Sat Mar 19, 2022 8:02 am

Braves let Freddie Freeman walk on the back of not offering a 6th year on a new contract.

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Re: MLB

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Sat Apr 09, 2022 2:25 pm

1st win of the year after a lacklustre effort yesterday
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Re: MLB

Postby ORDoubleBlues » Sat May 14, 2022 7:57 pm

Good to see Wander Franco is living up to the hype of 2 years ago and SA's own Jack O'Loughlin hanging in there with the Detroit Tigers organisation
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Re: MLB

Postby Spargo » Sat May 14, 2022 8:02 pm

ORDoubleBlues wrote:Good to see Wander Franco is living up to the hype of 2 years ago and SA's own Jack O'Loughlin hanging in there with the Detroit Tigers organisation

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Re: MLB

Postby Booney » Mon May 23, 2022 1:01 pm

ORDoubleBlues wrote:Good to see Wander Franco is living up to the hype of 2 years ago and SA's own Jack O'Loughlin hanging in there with the Detroit Tigers organisation


Good Port Adelaide boy, is Jack.
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Re: MLB

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:21 pm

good month so far....
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Re: MLB

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:14 pm

Braves, doing Braves sh1t today v Dodgers ffs
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Re: MLB

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Sat Jul 23, 2022 12:04 pm

Blue jays at Boston putting on a scoring clinic

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Re: MLB

Postby Booney » Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:00 pm

Harper. Big time player. Might be all time great.
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Re: MLB

Postby Booney » Sun Nov 06, 2022 1:11 pm

Phillies make the worst pitching change in World Series history.
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Re: MLB

Postby Brodlach » Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:13 pm

Adelaide Giants win the Claxton Shield for the first time in 43 years
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Re: MLB

Postby Booney » Thu Mar 09, 2023 1:57 pm

Very proud moment for the Port Adelaide Baseball Club with Jack O'Laughlin starting the game on the mound for Team Australia at the World Baseball Classic in Tokyo, vs South Korea. Currently on ESPN / Kayo.
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