OT: Dodgers vs. Red Sox

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by ptourkin

lol. This is why baseball is a dying sport. Machado maliciously wounding players is one issue. Bat flips and exuberant gestures is another. Keep pushing the "unwritten rules" and watch it dry up in a pool of pale tears. So much more condemnation of this than the standing ovation for Hader and the comments from the Fenway stands.

Not as big as it once was and maybe 'shrinking' but hardly dying. MLB total payroll about $4billion, NFL and $5billion...

Bottom line: Certainly, baseball is not America’s favorite sport and hasn’t been for a long time. But with more than 72 million tickets sold to games in 2017, it’s far from disappearing from the American sports landscape.

[fiamme red]

I'm glad that when I was a boy, I could watch World Series games to the end and still be in bed at a reasonable hour. Last night's game ended at 12:01 EST.

[ptourkin]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

I'm glad that when I was a boy, I could watch World Series games to the end and still be in bed at a reasonable hour. Last night's game ended at 12:01 EST.

And sometimes had to sneak a radio into school.

[cgolvin]

I fondly recall when world series games took place in weather that more closely resembled the weather for the vast majority of regular season games. And, unbelievably, even during daylight.

I am old apparently.


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[jtbadge]

Originally Posted by ptourkin

lMachado maliciously wounding players is one issue. Bat flips and exuberant gestures is another. Keep pushing the "unwritten rules" and watch it dry up in a pool of pale tears. So much more condemnation of this than the standing ovation for Hader and the comments from the Fenway stands.

100% agree. Move over, "good ole' boys" and "playing the right way." Rosters are being built from the best talent from more and more diverse backgrounds, and the rest of the world doesn't have any patience for the stuck-up attitudes.

[pinkshogun]

Yaz takes time out from his busy fishing schedule to throw out the first pitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNp6bNf8HPY

[fiamme red]

I turned off the TV after the 6th inning last night, with the Dodgers up 4-0. The Red Sox' bats had been dormant, and I thought the game was over.

[makoti]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

I'm glad that when I was a boy, I could watch World Series games to the end and still be in bed at a reasonable hour. Last night's game ended at 12:01 EST.

I remember they used to play WS games...in the DAYTIME! I know! Crazy talk, huh?

[fiamme red]

Originally Posted by makoti

I remember they used to play WS games...in the DAYTIME! I know! Crazy talk, huh?

I remember them too. But I think that by the mid-1980's, all World Series games were played at night.

[tv_vt]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

I turned off the TV after the 6th inning last night, with the Dodgers up 4-0. The Red Sox' bats had been dormant, and I thought the game was over.

Yeah, Dodgers fans thought it was over, too. I sure thought it was over. Nine runs in three innings after going scoreless for 6 innings? Crazy.

Ps. Daytime WS games - I remember those well. Remember sitting in my jr. high math class and the teacher had his radio going on his desk while he gave us some problems to work on. Deal was we had to keep quiet or the radio went off. Other than the announcer, you could hear a pin drop.

[Bruce K]

I must be really old

I remember Sandy Koufax refusing to pitch a Saturday day fame in the WS because it was the Jewish Sabbath and against his beliefs.

BK

[Bradford]

The 27 innings in the last two games have just been great...this is exactly what World Series baseball should be. What a great series, but I can't take much more of this. Time for the Sox to put it away so I can calm down.

[Climb01742]

And so we can get to bed at a reasonable hour! Pitching Price tonight is a gutsy move. Fingers crossed that Cora’s magic touch lasts one more game.

[Macadamia]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

I'm glad that when I was a boy, I could watch World Series games to the end and still be in bed at a reasonable hour. Last night's game ended at 12:01 EST.

did you watch the friday game to the end?

at one point larry king's wife and friend were holding him up like it was "weekend at bernie's"

[msl819]

Originally Posted by Bradford

The 27 innings in the last two games have just been great...this is exactly what World Series baseball should be. What a great series, but I can't take much more of this. Time for the Sox to put it away so I can calm down.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. I’d rather them celebrate in Boston assuming they close it out but man, getting it done tonight would help my rest a ton.