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

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MissThundercat said:
In Double A ball, Chattanooga was no hit by Rocket City and still won 7-5.
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They scored all their runs in the top of the final (7th) inning:
  • walk
  • walk
  • pop out
  • walk
  • strikeout
  • walk (1 run)
  • error on center fielder (3 runs)
  • hit by pitch
  • hit by pitch
  • hit by pitch (1 run)
  • walk (1 run)
  • wild pitch (1 run)
  • strikeout
The error was... very bad.
 
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Kepler said:
LOL. So much for "we care about the lives of our patrons and the innocents they will crash into driving home drunk."

Put the league on the hook for deaths caused by these drunks.
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That's a hot take. Are we putting all bars and restaurants on the hook too?
 
Kepler said:
LOL. So much for "we care about the lives of our patrons and the innocents they will crash into driving home drunk."

Put the league on the hook for deaths caused by these drunks.
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I mean, the joke is that they are still only allowing beer sales for the same amount of time, but since the game is going quicker it's to a later inning than before, but OK.
 
JF_Gophers said:
That's a hot take. Are we putting all bars and restaurants on the hook too?
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I'm not sure the cutoff of sales after the 7th inning was necessarily related to cutting down on intoxication levels.

Ballparks are subject to the same laws as all other vendors of alcohol. In Minnesota, it's illegal to sell to a minor, or to a person "obviously intoxicated." Just because you sold the beer during the fourth inning doesn't mean that you're off the hook. If a person is drunk in the second inning and you make the sale, it's illegal and the vendor can be held liable.

I think the 7th inning cutoff was intended to give the patrons a reasonable amount of time to finish the beer before the game is over and it's time to exit out onto the public streets. Patrons aren't typically allowed to leave the stadium with their beers in most cities. Selling a beer in the 9th inning is just likely to lead to disputes between someone who just bought a beer and some retired guy standing at the exit telling him he can't leave the stadium with it.
 
French Rage said:
I mean, the joke is that they are still only allowing beer sales for the same amount of time, but since the game is going quicker it's to a later inning than before, but OK.
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Part of their argument was that cutting them off allowed them some time to come down. Now they have less time which negates that. It wasn't my dumb argument, it was theirs.
 
Rays go to 12-0. They can tie the "most wins to start the season" record tomorrow afternoon by completing a sweep of the Red Sox. '82 Braves and '87 Brewers both started those seasons 13-0.
Atlanta finished the season 89-73 to win the NL West but lost in the NLCS to the Cardinals. The Brewers finished the season at 91-71, finishing third in the AL East and missing the playoffs.
 
Twins are up 9-0 on the Yankees in the top of the first. Already batted around and there are only two outs (at the time of posting). Yankees have already yanked the starter. And the Twins have gone back-to-back-to-back with dingers.

MLB Network is simulcasting the YES feed, and the YES announcers have gone from jovial, to bewildered, to horrified, to suicidal, to "welp, this is a blowout, let's talk about random sh*t," all within a half hour.
 
aparch said:
Twins are up 9-0 on the Yankees in the top of the first. Already batted around and there are only two outs (at the time of posting). Yankees have already yanked the starter. And the Twins have gone back-to-back-to-back with dingers.

MLB Network is simulcasting the YES feed, and the YES announcers have gone from jovial, to bewildered, to horrified, to suicidal, to "welp, this is a blowout, let's talk about random sh*t," all within a half hour.
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Pitch clock making some things better already.
 
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