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MLB 2015-16: Grays Sports Almanac Edition

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joecct said:
Guess what's coming to an NL ballpark near you?

http://www.csnmidatlantic.com/baseball-washington-nationals/talk/looks-dh-be-headed-national-league
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Guess next year will be the last year I watch baseball. Hope the Cardinals make it worth it. That, or the World Series is won on a walk-off HR by a pitcher. Or both.

Obviously a bit of hyperbole, but this is a travesty. Baseball is a game played by nine players, not ten.
 
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The other thing that probably will happen is a 28 man roster with 25 active for each game.
 
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joecct said:
The other thing that probably will happen is a 28 man roster with 25 active for each game.
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I'd be just fine with that. Sort of.

JF_Gophers said:
now lets get rid of September call ups and things will be almost perfect!
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And there is the caveat; I'm fine with the September call-ups as long as the roster is capped each game making it equal for both teams. Kinda like hockey where you can have 23 players on the roster, but only dress 20 a night. So go ahead and try calling up all of your 40-man roster, only 25 can be active per game.
 
aparch said:
I'd be just fine with that. Sort of.


And there is the caveat; I'm fine with the September call-ups as long as the roster is capped each game making it equal for both teams. Kinda like hockey where you can have 23 players on the roster, but only dress 20 a night. So go ahead and try calling up all of your 40-man roster, only 25 can be active per game.
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Then we play a 7 inning B game at 3 pm for the scratches.
 
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aparch said:
And there is the caveat; I'm fine with the September call-ups as long as the roster is capped each game making it equal for both teams. Kinda like hockey where you can have 23 players on the roster, but only dress 20 a night. So go ahead and try calling up all of your 40-man roster, only 25 can be active per game.
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That's actually a really good idea.
 
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aparch said:
Please don't be the DH, please don't be the DH, please don't be the DH...

*clicks link*

Goddammit. :(
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exactly how much of a fan revolt do we need for this not to happen?
 
unofan said:
Why?
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Because separate rules creates a competitive disadvantage for the visiting team. So if it's happening every day instead of just for 1 month you have to eliminate that.

So either the same rules for the leagues or a lot less interleague.

If both leagues eliminated the DH that would create the same results, but lets not pretend in this era of more offense that that is even an option.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Because separate rules creates a competitive disadvantage for the visiting team. So if it's happening every day instead of just for 1 month you have to eliminate that.

So either the same rules for the leagues or a lot less interleague.

If both leagues eliminated the DH that would create the same results, but lets not pretend in this era of more offense that that is even an option.
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Once the NFL absorbed the AFL, do you think the eventual homogony of the NFL rulebook between the AFC and NFC created a disenfranchisement of the fans? As much as people want to say the AL and NL are different leagues, they're really just like the NFL's two conferences. The traditionalists and the purists are what MLB fears the most. The league's owners are watching the shifting demos for the nation, and then looking at the shifting demos of their fan base, and it's not to their liking. MLB will see a great many more rule changes over the next decade or two that will drive its traditional fans up a wall, all in an effort to sell the game to the masses, not just whites and Latinos.
 
St. Clown said:
Once the NFL absorbed the AFL, do you think the eventual homogony of the NFL rulebook between the AFC and NFC created a disenfranchisement of the fans? As much as people want to say the AL and NL are different leagues, they're really just like the NFL's two conferences. The traditionalists and the purists are what MLB fears the most. The league's owners are watching the shifting demos for the nation, and then looking at the shifting demos of their fan base, and it's not to their liking. MLB will see a great many more rule changes over the next decade or two that will drive its traditional fans up a wall, all in an effort to sell the game to the masses, not just whites and Latinos.
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I don't care what the fans think. I care what I think. :D

Im talking simply about competitive disadvantage. Not about what's best for viewers.
 
JF_Gophers said:
Because separate rules creates a competitive disadvantage for the visiting team. So if it's happening every day instead of just for 1 month you have to eliminate that.

So either the same rules for the leagues or a lot less interleague.

If both leagues eliminated the DH that would create the same results, but lets not pretend in this era of more offense that that is even an option.
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So the disadvantage is condensed to one month instead of spread over the whole season. It's still the same number of interleague games per team.
 
unofan said:
So the disadvantage is condensed to one month instead of spread over the white season. It's still the same number of interleague games per team.
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My first choice is to eliminate it completely. But I get that MLB thinks it's good.

Having it condensed does reduce its impact a little as everyone is at the same disadvantage at the same time. You can alter your roster to account for your schedule, but having to do it again and again for the full season is a burden.
 
St. Clown said:
Once the NFL absorbed the AFL, do you think the eventual homogony of the NFL rulebook between the AFC and NFC created a disenfranchisement of the fans? As much as people want to say the AL and NL are different leagues, they're really just like the NFL's two conferences. The traditionalists and the purists are what MLB fears the most. The league's owners are watching the shifting demos for the nation, and then looking at the shifting demos of their fan base, and it's not to their liking. MLB will see a great many more rule changes over the next decade or two that will drive its traditional fans up a wall, all in an effort to sell the game to the masses, not just whites and Latinos.
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Twenty over cricket (T20) blows MLB (& NFL) out of the water.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
All 15 NL stadiums empty for the entire season.

They would have to eliminate season long interleague in order to maintain the separate rules.
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Which is why I hated the interleague in the first place.

Edit: it made the WS REALLY special. Two "leagues," different rules. Let's see who wins.
 
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