Opening Day?

[peachhead]

I like the new rules. The money is bad but baseball holds cities hostage at a rate of 5% vs. the NFL. I have internet TV which is not cheap and I still would have to buy a package to watch the Rangers this year after paying ZERO extra to see their games on satellite or internet for decades. I am just far enough from DFW to be considered out of the target market but close enough to not be considered out of market.

Pitch timers? Ghost runners? This is the kind of stuff we did as kids when we didn't have enough players. Give me a break. If you're paying people a hundred million dollars a year to play ball, then the least you can do is not change the rules to accommodate a bunch of people who can't sit still without their ADHD medication.
And don't get me started on the TV rules. When I was a kid It was a good day when we could pick up channel 17 so we could watch the Braves.
Minor league ball is fun but MLB is slowly strangling it. Next year the new (again) women's baseball league starts. Whatever.
Macon GA has the second oldest minor league ballpark that is still being used. We used to have a minor league team. For the last 10 years or so of its existence it was a Braves farm team, until they were able to extort a new stadium out of Rome GA so they moved.
Now we have a coastal plains league team, which is college players who want to adjust to a wooden bat league. It's pretty good. At least these people are not getting paid, as far as I know.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

If you haven't heard, MLB will be starting, in 2026, a Womens MLB, 6 teams to start.

No crying, right?

 

[gjgalligan]

Baseball

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Agreed.....it is a slowish sport.....and it interferes with lacrosse season......Lacrosse the FASTEST GAME ON TWO FEET!

 

[GasGuzzler]

I never even heard of lacrosse until I was in my 30's.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Lacrosse was mostly a east coast sport until the late 80's......now it's everywhere. Now it's common to see top D1 recruits out of Cali, Texas, Utah....it's a great sport, one of the oldest in America......Indians played it to prepare for war. A lot of the western spread can be credited to Col Glen Miles USMC RET. He played at the US Naval Academy. We played together at the same High School. The other huge promoter of LAX is Quint Kessenich. Watch a NCAA game and you will most likely hear him commentating.

I first experienced it when we moved from Illinois to Long Island in 1972.....all the kids in the neighborhood were running around with these " wood sticks with nets" lol. Once I got into it I was hooked. 1975 we moved to Maryland (Baltimore County). I lived and played in the two biggest hot beds of lacrosse back then. Used to buy equipment straight from the STX factory in Baltimore. I got so good at stringing sticks a local sporting goods shop hired me to make custom sticks. Those were the days. Football in Fall, Lacrosse in Spring/Summer, Cheerleaders every season and Motorcycles....and of course stringing enough sticks for Friday night beer money....

 

[CaptHowdy]

Huge fan of baseball, but as a White Sox fan it’s getting harder and harder to watch