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  1. intentional wok
    It would have been Hand vs Ohtani. I think this was sort of the correct move because you'd rather face Gosselin but it's Cimber who should have been the RH option.
  2. intentional wok
    Simmons doesn't play on the Angels my dude
  3. intentional wok
    Iglesias just made the most amazing attempt to get Valera. Imagine if he'd gotten the out.
  4. intentional wok
    I wonder if they're giving his hip less of a workload, which I guess is not the worst thing since McGuire is doing a decent job and the rest of the lineup is totally crushing it.
  5. intentional wok
    What a strange series this has been. A double-header of short, one-run pitching duels surrounded by crushing losses delivered to the Sox. I also like that the 13-1 Jays win on July 29 is what started this continuing spiral for the Sox.
  6. intentional wok
    Makes sense. At least two of those fouls looked really brutal. He made some good plays this series in spite of it. He's a beast.
  7. intentional wok
    I'd argue the 95% of staring at something else is actually very harmful for fan engagement. The more the audience is being entertained by something else means less time you're the one entertaining them. Instant entertainment takes the edge off the game for us fans who are invested to the point of being mentally unwell (everyone here), but I don't think it's great for getting casuals invested. And yes, all sports probably have similar problems but I'd argue that the Instagram generation took their captive audience from them and it's basically showing off what we all already felt, that daily 3-hour sporting events are mostly high-sponsored filler content. That said, I don't really include the Blue Jays franchise in struggling with fan engagement. The Rogers marketing teams are beasts and the Blue Jays are uniquely suited for a country-sized market. Doubt a lot of the other franchises could compare. Canada and the Blue Jays are probably one of the few markets MLB aren't concerned about anyway.
  8. intentional wok
    He just played several games in a row and two yesterday. There's an off-day tomorrow but then a double-header immediately after as well, which kicks off a week visiting the West Coast. If there's even a chance of a tweak it's probably worth getting him a breather. Today is probably the most favourable match-up for Toronto of the whole series anyway, though maybe less so without Bichette (and the Sox are without JD).
  9. intentional wok
    I'd argue that extra-inning games are primarily a player health and fatigue question rather than fan engagement issue. Correct me if it's been proven wrong, but I don't think extra-inning marathons are the threshold casual fans need to get over, and even then the marathons are fairly rare. The problem is that the middle innings of a baseball game are usually really drab and boring, especially on weeknights. When it's already 8:30 and we're only in top 5th? Of course even big fans will turn to Netflix for an hour and come back in the 8th -- baseball as a product is generally no worse than it's been in the past, but there are infinite other entertainment options when you compare things to even the mid-2000s. Baseball asks for a huge time investment in general and a lot of that time is frankly wasted and/or doesn't pay off.
  10. intentional wok
    Agreed on both. Not sure I'd want to see such a drastic change and very doubtful the players' union would entertain it. This is baseball's own TJ surgery option. Bite the bitter bullet and hope that it gets your product where you want it to be (while everyone trashes you for a decade until the changes become normalized) or try literally every other option, even terrible ones. I know it's fashionable to hate on Manfred but he's in a very weird place trying to placate the unions and current fans while also trying to attract the next generation of baseball fans (and mitigating the damage that the global emergency has had on the business). Still hope the 7-inning D/Hs remain though. Great solution.
  11. intentional wok
    My biggest surprise is how much I appreciate these 7-inning games. The drag of the 5th and 6th with teams patching together a way to get to the late game is pretty much gone. It just makes it so obvious to me how sick I am of waiting for the mop-up innings to be over. The pace-of-play problem already has an answer: shortening the game itself rather than meddling with the rules and strategies (free runners, RP requirements). Probably not what fans want to hear, but I really think a shorter ball game is still a purer baseball experience than all these band-aid rules. Probably not what the players want to hear either since a change to 7 innings would probably equal to losing about a month's worth of stat padding. RPs in general might be severely impacted too, though also maybe not because shorter games on average means less middle-inning strain on your arms and much more viable "bullpen days".
  12. intentional wok
    He comes out looking good for not causing an injury to someone on that positioning disaster. Calling him safe and not using "obstruction" sure is a f***ing hot take though.
  13. intentional wok
    Hating the Sox or Yanks is just a fandom rule. My vote is the Angels for being perennial f***ing failures.
  14. intentional wok
    I imagine they're also keeping things in line to deal with double-header workloads. Since two straight McGuire starts, I'd guess the next five games go: Kirk today McGuire Fri Kirk Sat g1 McGuire Sat g2 Kirk Sun Then Monday is an off-day followed by a double header again during a week-long West Coast roadtrip. Who knows what the plan is from there. Probably L/R match-ups. Seems like they're doing a pretty good job managing the C position tbh.
  15. intentional wok
    I think it was a 7-inning game too. So much ******** in such a short span that I thought I was Texas Rangers fan.
  16. intentional wok
    Seems like they did him a solid, intended or not. Hope he gets a chance to make a good contribution. The Brewers are my favourite non-super powered NL team.
  17. intentional wok
    Rangers just walk-off bombed the Mariners for the second time in 24 hours.
  18. intentional wok
    This move likely pushes Manoah to the pen, right? That's an upgrade of sorts in that department, and it seemed like they were really trying to limit his workload.
  19. intentional wok
    Brilliant on every level. You have transcended to being the board god with these threads. Pre- AND post-game analysis.
  20. intentional wok
    I loathe the auto-runner in any scenario. It really does need to be gone. I understand they want to keep games from going very long, but I'd rather see an anti-climactic tie than meddlesome nonsense. That said, I have no issue with 7-inning double-headers. THAT's the change I would keep, not the automatic runner (made even worse by these terrible RP-switching limitations). Such, such ********.
  21. intentional wok
    At least Manoah/Stripling/Ray against TB is better than Matz right now. Then again, that double-header will fall right in the middle of an Oakland-New York-Baltimore-Tampa stretch.
  22. intentional wok
    My mind keeps turning to Seattle. They're also right there in the standings and would hugely benefit from adding him to their lineup.
  23. intentional wok
    I am all for a move that would make the lineup so deep that Teoscar would become the 6-hitter. Two (hopefully three) months of DH logjam is a very small price to pay for a mutant like Cruz.
  24. intentional wok
    I am absolutely never going to watch another Youtube game again. SHUT UPPPP
  25. intentional wok
    This commentary is f***ing unbelievable.
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