GeorgiaPeach

I have a dry sense of humour and I'm very content with what I find funny. As for TOS' tweet. If it falls in line with what every other team does and says "so & so is back to normal" or "he's doing this or that, having made a change to correct something" how is what TOS tweeted funny? Its just run of the mill comments being thrown back in the face of Wilner.

Are you against moving Bautista?

I had difficulty picking up on that seeing as this entire thread is taking about making changes to baseball, not enforcing current rules or guidelines. It appears that most people who complain either have an outside influence that allows it to affect them. Or they're a casual fan and don't really have a reason to complain because they don't really care for baseball enough to not be classed a casual fan. It's sad where someone has dedicated 3-4 hours to go watch a baseball game in person is put off by an extra 20 or 30 minutes I can't think of any baseball fans I know who complain about the length of a baseball game.

Most organizations and players are talking things up in the spring. I didn't find the tweet hilarious. I did however like Carlos Martinez Twitter page.

Those changes you identified were good for baseball. As for the younger generations having attention spans and interests that change on a whim....sorry I'm not a fan of MLB making changes to the game to appease those fans. If they want to pander to fans like that, make the ballpark experience more interactive. *Have a team/fan interactive auction at every game at every park where game used baseballs, broken bats....ballpark seats get auctioned off by fans using their smart phones and bidding on items. Trust me, it isn't causing hardcore baseball fans to turn their interests elsewhere.

I have no problem with how long a baseball game takes to play today or in the past. Agreed. I would really hate to see MLB make noticeable changes to the game by quickening the pace to appease the complaints from fans. Because you know as well as I do, if MLB was able to shave an extra 5-10 minutes off a game, not too long after more advertising/commercials/TV time would fill that void. {quote]Expand the strike zone. Expand it? Why not have MLB pressure umpires to call the zone of what its structured to be called as? And if its a problem doing that, implement a bonus into umpires contracts where the umpires calls who most reflect the strike zone from picthf/x get the bigger bonus? And maybe some batters who got drilled for stepping out, Bert Campeneris' the pitcher's ass for stepping off the mound to play with the rosin bag. What's fair is fair. I don't see how another 20-30 minutes bothers people? You talk about reviving interest. IMO the biggest thing that caused people to lose interest in baseball was the '94 work stoppage. If the lengthened time of a game has caused a hardcore fan to lose interest, its news to me.

I understand your comments, but it appears to have been a pet peeve of bigpaulie when he was a child himself when he referenced Guzman being slow. I don't have children, but if I did and my kid was getting antsy and wanting to leave early, I wouldn't force them to stay. I understand the whole dynamic of what you're doing revolves around the child. But to change the rules of baseball to accommodate people who don't like a game which is close to as long as an NFL game and slightly longer than an NHL or NBA game what's the difference? Shaving a few minutes off the game by altering things that've been going on for decades isn't cool with me.

In all the times I've ever gone to games I've never thought of getting in and out as quick as possible before I went to the game and only felt rushed for the game to be over during the game maybe a few times. Twice it was to get to the 2nd game of a double header and the other time while in Miami the game had gone late due to a 2+ hour rain delay and I was late returning a rental car. I expect to be at a game for 3+ hours and if it goes longer......great.

Seeing as baseball history on its own is bigger and more referred to than the NFL, NHL & NBA combined. I don't think it would take them a second to turn this idea down, they may not even answer. You would essentially have to start keeping new records and separate the record books if this ever happened.

I'm not a fan of rushing the game.

Can't be the quality of the park. It's one of my favourites.

Maybe you could shave a little time off the game, but not drastic changes.

What are the problems with their park?

And I believe at that time close to the entire rotation was on the shelf to.

But the real fans wanted this major push to contend, otherwise they were leaving.

But you talked about selling off veteran players. Kevin believes heavily the FO takes into consideration selling tickets. The only way this FO believes selling tickets works is with name players to draw in dumb fans. So either your plan is right which I hope is the path we take, or Kevin's is where the current FO wants to continue to pander to the knucklehead fan and keep a veteran team.

But those aging players sell tickets. We're doomed.

It would be fun to start trolling players on Twitter for s*** like this and hashtag it from this forum

Never tagged myself as that.

Um yeah it is.....its like the ASG balloting where each teams PA announcer encourages hometown fans to vote for the hometown players on the ballot. It's the ASG or Face of MLB voting isn't it? If I wanna see a collection of all-stars play a game, it sure ain't gonna be some of the f***ing losers on the Jays or other teams who don't deserve votes. Kinda like how Bautista isn't, never has been, and over a lengthy period of time isn't remotely close to being the Face of MLB. Not worthy of a vote.

They are? Then I guess this fanbase is as I called it for years and continue to......an embarrassment. So to the people who say, we have a rabid, dedicated baseball fanbase. Yep, we do, they watch a lot of baseball, but are still dum as f***.

Voting for Bautista as the face of MLB is like a Leaf fan voting for Kessel as the face of the NHL. It just shows you're a f***ing homer, muppet, nothing else.

Sounds like the situation in Montreal years back.

Has to be Saturday, or I'm a no-go.

I don't think any of Alex's trades/moves have ever been leaked, correct? And pretty close to always, when he has opened his mouth and even suggested he's targeting someone, we haven't signed anyone, correct? I think I'm gonna stick with this observation and not even get an inkling of hope up when Alex talks.