2023 Onaforums Baseball Thread

[Monk]

This documentary on the last season of Comiskey Park is so nostalgic. I really need to get to a Sox game this year, it's been too long.

 

[guest]

I haven’t watched baseball in years but these pitch/batter clocks make it watchable for me now. It’s not even a ADHD/zoomer thing it just was so stupid the amount of time between pitches before. Are zoomers even watching baseball? Aren’t they probably watching lebron do open lane/unguarded dunks all game?

 

[Udders]

The new rules are all great. Baseball does something right for the first time in decades.

Ideally we need a hard salary cap which would limit operating costs so fans aren't spending $18 for a beer, but the union will never go for that and absurd prices are here to stay anyway. The new rules are great for sure.

 

[guest]

Ideally we need a hard salary cap which would limit operating costs so fans aren't spending $18 for a beer, but the union will never go for that and absurd prices are here to stay anyway. The new rules are great for sure.

Bring your own booze, I’ve done it for years

 

[guest]

The new rules are all great. Baseball does something right for the first time in decades.

I'm surprised at how much more watchable it is. I've probably watched more of this regular season than I did all last year.

 

[guest]

I'm surprised at how much more watchable it is. I've probably watched more of this regular season than I did all last year.

Yeah me too. I’ve watched a couple games with teams that I don’t even really care about and I would never usually do that outside of playoffs or a pennant chance.

 

[guest]

Yeah me too. I’ve watched a couple games with teams that I don’t even really care about and I would never usually do that outside of playoffs or a pennant chance.

Yesterday afternoon was the first time in a long time I watched a regular season game from first pitch to last. Enjoyed the hell out of it.

 

[NortheastPhilly]

Saw the Phillies on Easter, sat in the 3rd deck in right field. Some dude was literally smoking a J in the back row and nothing happened. The type of crowd you get up there during a spring baseball game always amuses me.
A collection of the biggest alcoholics, junkies, and creeps.

 

[guest]

Watched the athletics walk 17 batters last night. I was physically repulsed. A once proud and histories franchise completely embarrassing themselves. Why is this owner so cheap, I thought?

Feigenbaum.....SHOCKER!!

 

[aRTie02150]

I would really like to attend a game in Japan. This is regular season and this guy on the visiting team hits a home run to his team's cheering section and they're as excited as if it were a playoff game.

I especially like the one Jap waving the American flag showing respect to the foreigner who just hit his first NPB home run.

 

[guest]

I fucking hate umpires and can't wait for them to be figureheads who just announce the calls determined by computers.

I know it's a thankless job and all that, but you'd have to be an egotistical, power tripping asshole to ever want that gig in the first place, so if you can't keep a strike zone consistent you deserve to be shit on.

Fawk going to watch jomboy now. That’s for the reminder

 

[Monk]

A once proud and histories franchise completely embarrassing themselves.

This actually isn't even really close to the lowest point in A's history.

Except for a fifth-place finish in 1944, they finished in last or next-to-last place every year from 1935 to 1946.

By the mid-1940s, as Mack passed his 80th birthday, he was showing unmistakable signs of mental decline, almost to the point of senility. He would frequently sleep through innings, make bad calls that his coaches would simply ignore, have inexplicable fits of anger, or call players from decades earlier to pinch-hit. Mack also never installed a telephone in the dugout and instead would use a series of obtuse hand signs to signal his coaches on the field. According to infielder Ferris Fain, "He'd fall asleep for much of the game waving his score card, but he still had a few working nerve endings left in his big ol' neck waddle. Anyone who dared wake him up was subjected to a hasty trial by the team's kangaroo court."

During this time, Shibe Park was also becoming an increasing liability. While the facility had been state of the art when it opened in 1909, by the late 1940s, it had not been well maintained in some time. It was also not suited to automobile traffic, having been designed before the Ford Model T was introduced.

Philadelphia Athletics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Connie Mack could arguably be considered both the best and worst baseball owner of all time as well as the best and worst manager of all time.

 

[guest]

This actually isn't even really close to the lowest point in A's history.



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Connie Mack could arguably be considered both the best and worst baseball owner of all time as well as the best and worst manager of all time.

And that other guy I think Finley, I'm too lazy to look it up who was firing people like crazy and trying to sell players while they were winning championships ....something like that. Pretty good bit tbpfhwy

 

[Mr-Wrinkle-Paws]

Just need to say Paul ONeil ia a annoying cunt that ruins every fucking game he is part of, coney, hey coney, right coney, coney,

 

[Monk]

And that other guy I think Finley, I'm too lazy to look it up who was firing people like crazy and trying to sell players while they were winning championships ....something like that. Pretty good bit tbpfhwy

Finley lost a lot of players to free agency after that became a thing.

Connie Mack famously sold off some of the greatest players of all time after a period of success with them. He sold off a bunch of great players around 1908, then sold Eddie Collins to the White Sox in 1915, and in the mid '30s he gradually dismantled a team which had the likes of Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, and Mickey Cochrane on it.

He was also the first owner to admit that it was better for him financially to field a team that would be competitive with top teams but ultimately end up in 2nd place. With a team like that, they would have good attendance but he wouldn't have to give in to the players' salary demands since they didn't actually win anything.

 

[NortheastPhilly]

This actually isn't even really close to the lowest point in A's history.

Philadelphia Athletics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Connie Mack could arguably be considered both the best and worst baseball owner of all time as well as the best and worst manager of all time.

The funny thing is that stadium that was deteriorated and obsolete in the 1940s is where the Phillies played until 19 fucking 70.
On top of all its outdatedness, the neighborhood was an utter nigger shithole by the 60s.
My grandpop has told me about going there in the later years and there were regularly crowds of roughly 2,000 people in the middle of the summer because you simply couldnt get there without walking a hike through coontown.

 

[Monk]

 

[TomFromNawlins]

Fawk going to watch jomboy now. That’s for the reminder

Jomboy’s lip reading is keeping interest in baseball alive.

 

[guest]

This point has probably already been made, but enough with the on-the-field interviews in the middle of the game. No one's interested in hearing light-hearted banter between the cheesedick announcers and the players. They're not relevant and they go on way too long. You faggots are supposed to be calling the game, not asking some guy on the Red Sox about some corny jokes he made on twitter. Can't remember the team, but they actually distracted a guy from making a catch because he was busy answering their asinine questions. Just call the game and shut the fuck up otherwise.

 

[Monk]

Can't recall ever seeing a game end on a wild pitch that hit the ump.