MLB 2022: Playing Ball, But Is Anyone Still Watching?

[Spartanforlife4]

more power to him but that is ****ing ridiculous

Agreed. Most dynamic player since Ruth, but it’ll be a year before he can be a pitcher, so there’s 70M year 1 for a DH. Though there are evidently unprecedented deferrals in the deal so it won’t truly be 70M in cash. But if this isn’t just a one-time deal for a once in a century player and ends up raising salaries across the board, that’s going to create an interesting economy for a league losing its RSNs by next year for half the league. Better hope fans love paying for direct streaming or those OTA ads cash in.

[French Rage]

That's sad, I really hoped he would get a chance to play for a team that could win a WS.

[walrus]

Ohtani to the Dodgers. 10 years/700 million.

Wild. I thought his max was 600 and that was before getting Tommy John again.

more power to him but that is ****ing ridiculous

[Spartanforlife4]

Ohtani to the Dodgers. 10 years/700 million.

Wild. I thought his max was 600 and that was before getting Tommy John again.

[SJHovey]

The Yogi Berra documentary It Ain't Over is wonderful. I might be behind on it, but if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it.

I concur wholeheartedly.

[Kepler]

If the rumors are to be believed, Ohtani is down to the Dodgers and Blue Jays and will decide by the end of the weekend.

SI repeated the Dodgers fan site post that Ohtani is going to Toronto; the RSN that owns the Blue Jays can afford Ohtani's $600M because they are dropping the NHL rights, which lose the equivalent.

[Spartanforlife4]

If the rumors are to be believed, Ohtani is down to the Dodgers and Blue Jays and will decide by the end of the weekend.

[Slap Shot]

The Yogi Berra documentary It Ain't Over is wonderful. I might be behind on it, but if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it.

[Kepler]

Let's just bring back the classic barnstorming teams from 100 years back, except the team is in MLB. No, I don't have any earthly idea how that would actually work in practice.

They could be the "home" team for every city without a team. They'd play 27 3-game home series each in a different city. Then every year the bottom 5 in attendance would be dropped and the next 5 added.

Are there 27 states without an MLB team? Restrict their games to those states.

[French Rage]

This is genuinely funny. :-)

The Athletic Wanderers.

Let's just bring back the classic barnstorming teams from 100 years back, except the team is in MLB. No, I don't have any earthly idea how that would actually work in practice.

[WeAreNDHockey]

The Giants played their games in Connecticut, at the Yale Bowl, in '73 and '74. After playing their first two games at Yankee Stadium they headed for Yale for the rest of the 1973 season, played all 7 home games there in 1974, and then shared Shea with the Mets and the Jets in 1975.

[SJHovey]

Wasn’t it because Yankee Stadium was being rebuilt? Didn’t everyone, Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, play at Shea one year?

A bit of both. Yankee stadium was to be closed for a couple of years, so the Giants were only going to be able to play there through’73, but I think NYC limited the Giants to just a few games there that season after the announcement was made.

[Jimjamesak]

When the NY football Giants announced they were moving to the Meadowlands, NYC kicked them out of Yankee Stadium immediately. They had to play for two years at Yale.

Wasn’t it because Yankee Stadium was being rebuilt? Didn’t everyone, Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, play at Shea one year?

[Russell Jaslow]

Teams have played in smaller or worse environments before as part of expansion or relocation.

When the NY football Giants announced they were moving to the Meadowlands, NYC kicked them out of Yankee Stadium immediately. They had to play for two years at Yale.

[Kepler]

I saw someone on Reddit claim the Athletics should have to change their name because the A’s are Oakland’s franchise.

"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!" -- Miriam A. Ferguson, Gov-TX, 1881