MLB 2023 Season

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Westheim

The fake bogus runner rule in extra innings.

Could be worse. The Pioneer League uses a home run derby to determine the winner of a game tied after 9 innings.

[Westheim]

Yeah but that was my example of a regular season rule not in effect in the postseason. At least it wasn't until '22, who knows what they'll come up this time...

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by Westheim

The fake bogus runner rule in extra innings.

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

It actually does. See the changes made in regards to post-season games being suspended instead of called due to weather.

Yeah, I questioned that after I put it out there.

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

Could be worse. The Pioneer League uses a home run derby to determine the winner of a game tied after 9 innings.

You know, I don't really need to envision Manly Rob Manfred jizzing his boxers. Just saying.

(I'm pretty sure I joked about Home Run Derby in extras a few years back. Now they've actually gone and done it. How long until we reach coin flips and Rock-Paper-Scissors, ya think?)

[Syd Thrift]

I’m actually surprised that eliminating the shift had such a big effect on LHB BABIP. I was very skeptical but even if the overall effect is only like 7 or 8 points, the fact that it’s all coming from lefties who were previously getting kind of BABIPed out of the game is nothing but good news to me. I’m generally of the opinion that of something works, we should leave it in.

I’m also hopeful that there will be a general downward trend in Ks with BABIPs trending so high now but I’m also skeptical…

[Westheim]

What in the name of James Bowie happened *there*...??

[Amazin69]

Chinese-American Appreciation Night variant? I have no clue. I don't even recall North Windsor having a Chinatown.

I like the number font, at least. (I'd ask if we need to read from right to left, but it doesn't matter in Heaney's case, apparently.)

[Cobra Mgr]

Last night was my first time looking @ the Rangers, so I thought I was just behind.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Chinese-American Appreciation Night variant? I have no clue. I don't even recall North Windsor having a Chinatown.

I like the number font, at least. (I'd ask if we need to read from right to left, but it doesn't matter in Heaney's case, apparently.)

Hmm… serious question but is there a major NE super metro city or West Coast city that doesn’t have a Chinatown? Perhaps I’m spoiled by growing up on the Best Coast and now living in Chicago but it feels like an “international district” is a staple of a large city that had immigration in its past (I’m leaving out the South because I do remember Atlanta not having one).

[Amazin69]

Well, I know Detroit has Greektown and Dearborn has a large Islamic population, but now I'm told those are the Rangers rather than the Tigers, so clearly I am rather far afield, literally.

(Not too abashed that I have not tracked where Andrew Heaney is, honestly. And yet,)

[Westheim]

Eh. As usual all evil in the world can be tracked to the absolutely ghastly City Connect crap that has been soiling baseball for years.

[rudel.dietrich]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

Hmm… serious question but is there a major NE super metro city or West Coast city that doesn’t have a Chinatown? Perhaps I’m spoiled by growing up on the Best Coast and now living in Chicago but it feels like an “international district” is a staple of a large city that had immigration in its past (I’m leaving out the South because I do remember Atlanta not having one).

Washington DC has a very tiny one. But it does have one
Baltimore also has a very small one.

That is about as helpful as I can be

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

Washington DC has a very tiny one. But it does have one
Baltimore also has a very small one.

That is about as helpful as I can be

Yeah I can definitely say that Seattle, Portland, the Bay Area (Oakland technically doesn’t but it’s all one metropolis and SF has one of the biggest ones in the country), LA, and Chicago all have pretty huge ones. Not sure about San Diego, which grew up primarily as a military town and Mexico-border city but it still wouldn’t surprise me. I haven’t really lived on the eastern seaboard but NYC of course has a large one, too, and the original city being cited, Toronto, almost has to have one, it being Canada’s NYC.

[Déjà Bru]

Thanks. (The one who deserves it will know. )

[Déjà Bru]

Back to true baseball stuff, I found this rather funny. (And I didn't want to post it in the Mets thread to avoid the impression of piling on.) I read it on my phone. Here are screenprints.

First, from the title, the gist of the article; not very complimentary, of course:



But as I am reading, this ad pops up:



and it keeps on popping up, over and over again, as it happens on smart phones; oblivious to the tone of the article:



Yes, baseball is certainly different here! Ha, ha.

[Not funny, huh? Yeah, in retrospect I don't think so either. I guess you had to be here. ]

[Cobra Mgr]

This Backs/Braves game is nuts.

[Cobra Mgr]

Scores tonight:
Chiefs 11, Lions 10
Cards16, Falcons 13
Bears 17, Commanders 3
Jets 11, Bears 10 (how'd that happen?)
Browns 10, Steelers 1
Rams 10, Ravens 3
Chargers 9, Argos 1
Currently.....Niners 11, Bengals 10

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Browns 10, Steelers 1
Chargers 9, Argos 1

When did the NFL start using CFL scoring rules?

[Westheim]

No idea where I raged about the ******* box scores on MLB.com earlier this year, but apparently they have now semi-changed it back to THIS:

Better!

Just like the Mets' stupid pen trying to, but not actually ******* up a 7-run lead.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

When did the NFL start using CFL scoring rules?

Merger.