Jack Be Quick
Hasek Is Right
I doubt I'd watch many sports at all if my wife and I had billions and a family to manage.
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I'm so glad I never went through a phase of listening to them. I was too old by then. And I know plenty of people my age and older listen to them, but I was not listening to radio rock at that time. If I were 13-14 or younger in 1999, rather than like 23, I might have had a phase listening to them.
My 13-14 was like Jane's Addiction and GNR and that's really not at all cringy. I still listen to/still would listen to some of that stuff today. I even mostly checked out of that stuff even before the Seattle stuff blew up. I did like Soundgarden (pre-1994) and Nirvana was cool because they sounded kind of like some of the punk bands I listen to.
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SteveCangialosi123
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Jack Be Quick
Hasek Is Right
Well that guy's certainly on brand for the Bronx. He just needs his skinny son named Frankie bag a chips who's wearing a backwards cap that's only halfway on his head and we're golden.
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Jack Be Quick
Hasek Is Right
Jack Be Quick
Hasek Is Right
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Is there a cure? Or is that one of those things that once you have it you have it for life?
Asking for a friend.
I can't believe @Nubmer6 hasn't put you in the prospects poll yet. With posts like this you are easily better than McCarthy.
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I didn’t even get runoff consideration this year. I’ve let you all down…
RangerDoggo
The Devils have a culture of failure
People are going to complain about the pitch clock, but going to the Cyclones games this year was refreshing. Nobody ever breaks the 15 second rule. I also like the shift restriction.
Bigger bases are stupid, though. I don't see any reason for that. You can cry "player safety" and get anything stupid or actively retrograde passed.
MLB can do whatever they want, but it's too late. The horse escaped from the barn long, long ago. I had the opportunity to speak with a former team broadcaster from the west coast recently and he told me the game is no longer watchable. I know there have been former players who have expressed the same, but when broadcasters are saying the same, there's a problem.
RangerDoggo
The Devils have a culture of failure
I'm not saying that advanced stats on their own are bad for the game, but they've led to some unintended consequences that have made baseball hard to watch and tedious to read or talk about. Rod Carew has said something to that effect.
I say this as someone who watches maybe 5 total regular season games a year, but what makes baseball so unwatchable? In my mind, it has always been a slow game with lots of standing around, but when there are stakes to the game that just adds to the anticipation and drama, no?
If anything, I would say the problem with baseball is just that there are so many games in a season that it's hard for any of them to be that compelling.
If anything, I would say the problem with baseball is just that there are so many games in a season that it's hard for any of them to be that compelling.
I disagree. Watching a batter try to time calling timeout just perfectly to interrupt the pitcher’s delivery and maybe he injured himself with an awkward slowdown before the batter adjusts his crotch is why baseball was invented.
And some of those pitchers bring more severe injury on themselves because their cap is rotated to far to one side or the other. Of course, a left-handed pitcher should prop his cap to the left to equalize their balance and not fall too far to the right on their follow-through (and vice versa for a righty). But yeah, those last second crotch grabs can be killers.
I disagree. I have never been more engaged. The pitching talent is absolutely absurd. You have guys like Duran throwing 100+ sinkers and then you have Ohtani making history every single night, something we haven’t seen in generations. It’s also refreshing to be completely away from the steroid era for batters.
You can’t worry about anyone else. The important thing is you enjoy it.
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It's the same thing as with hockey though...you might not care personally what other people think of your sport but you kind of want it to BE more popular (or in baseball's case stay popular) by the same token. All of these sports are chasing the younger demographic and the younger demo doesn't want 3.5 hour games in May. Soccer's actually gaining in popularity in part because for all the shit it gets for being boring you get games over with in two hours for the most part, and generally built in tension in almost all of them.
