NFR Baseball 2023

[charles sullivan]

Remember Omar Garciaparra? His stchick after every pitch was to adjust his gloves and then tap dance till the pitch was thrown. That routine was so boring and consistent that you questioned his mental health after awhile. He would not do well in today's game.

His name is Nomar as in Ramon in reverse.

The fact is that he rarely left the batters box and was actually very quick at bat. His OCD style dance to keep his gloves and cleats tight did not slow the game. He was nearly always waiting on the pitcher. He also swung at a lot of first pitches. If they actually timed at bats in that era, I suspect that he would have been among the fastest in baseball during his time.

It may have been annoying to watch but it was not a factor in slowing the game down in any way.

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

His name is Nomar as in Ramon in reverse.

The fact is that he rarely left the batters box and was actually very quick at bat. His OCD style dance to keep his gloves and cleats tight did not slow the game. He was nearly always waiting on the pitcher. He also swung at a lot of first pitches. If they actually timed at bats in that era, I suspect that he would have been among the fastest in baseball during his time.

It may have been annoying to watch but it was not a factor in slowing the game down in any way.

Agreed. He was very quick about his routine. It was purposeful and quick.

 

[Stonedfish]

Dodgers game marriage proposal gone wrong

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Fantastic tackle! Sign that guy up Seahawks!

 

[Peyton00]

Banned from the stadium.
Booked into jail.
Money wasted.

She declined the proposal.

 

[kerrys]

Earl Weaver preached his prescription for winning: “pitching and three-run homers.”

 

[Mossback]

Used to watch those teams as a kid, saw him thrown out of the game more than once.

 

[Dr. Magill]

Fantastic tackle! Sign that guy up Seahawks!

Well it was a stationary target
Big hit though

 

[Stonedfish]

Cheerful opening day festivities…..



Looks like the Mariners either weren’t selected or opted out of having their own Budweiser cans.


SF

 

[Peyton00]

Good baseball doesn't start til October.

 

[Divad]

“Marco it’s a new season let’s go!!”
“It’s okay Marco only the first game you’ll gettum next time.”
“Don’t worry about it bud you will turn it around in May”
“Just for a couple weeks, get your rhythm back with the Rainiers.”

 

[DanielOcean]

This ump is fucking terrible.

 

[clarkman]

Good baseball doesn't start til October.

I was thinking more after the first week in November....

 

[Buzzy]

Friendly reminder: baseball is fun

Yes, it is fun.

 

[Billy]

Yes, it is fun.


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My little beast starts Thursday

 

[Stonedfish]

 

[Mossback]

Beat me to it..

 

[Buzzy]

My little beast starts Thursday

Keiji seems to really enjoy Tball. He’s a small boy but has (quote) “SUPER SPEED”. What a blast!

 

[Dr. Magill]

Beat me to it..

You two are funny

 

[Josh]

Baseball as it has been played for over 100 years is better and that is how they played the Classic.

I mean, I suspect you are being over the top a bit to make a point. But this is just silly.

They had the DH in the WBC. No starter pitched a full game (in fact, many were on strict pitch/usage counts from their MLB clubs). Nobody was wearing metal spikes. How many head first slides did you see? There were "closers". How many of the guys playing have full time jobs in the offseason? Nobody was throwing a ball with a rubber core or without raised stitches. All these things have changed in baseball over the years. To say that the WBC was some exact copy of how Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg played it is as false as saying Babe Ruth could hit a ball to the moon.

As with most sports, baseball has always been a living thing that changed and evolved. Sometimes it was due to rules (the wild card, interleague play, etc) and sometimes it was because of tactics (the 3 true outcomes, analytics, etc) and sometimes it was because of outside forces (cork for balls & the AAGPBL during wartime). But it has never stayed the same.

All of this just to shorten the game by 20 minutes so it more conveniently fits int a TV time slot?

You do realize that all the pitch clock rules have done is to roll back the game length to what it was in the mid 90's, right? All the stepping out of the batters box and walking around the mound and other time wasting stuff is all from the past ~25 years. It wasn't always in baseball. The games didn't always take this long. Pitchers didn't always work this slowly. Hitters used to somehow be able to keep their gloves from falling off without adjusting them every pitch.

In what was, at least until the next week, probably the most important moment ever for Mariners fans (the one game 1995 playoff with LAA to make the playoffs for the first time ever, Randy vs former SEA ace Langston), the game took 2:50. Virtually identical to the 2:45 average length during 2023 spring training.