I tend to agree. Games finishing under three hours has been great, but I don't think it's bringing any new people to the game. Also, people like me would be watching even if the games were three hours plus. It's going to be the NHL when it's all said and done, if it's not there already.

You would think these statements make sense, but everything shows that attendance for MLB games has continued to rise for almost every team. The A's and the White Sox are the only ones going backwards in attendance, and even the Sox had ~20% higher attendance in June 2023 vs June 2022.

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Good. I hope it continues. I just have my doubts that it will.

Baseball will be a solid #3 sport in the years to come.

I thought it be more like golf or tennis but there’s just enough of an interest in the youth to keep it relevant.

And it’s like the only major sport left that gives white kids a fair chance to succeed. Sorry I said it oh well.

Everybody likes a summer picnic. The picnic isn't the problem.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

At the break got to say right now it's going to be a Braves/Astros WS Rematch from a few years ago.

I don't disagree. But it's predicated on Jose Abreu doing Jose Abreu things. Otherwise, it's somebody out of the AL East.

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With huge contracts more teams are loading up with cheap low 200s or below ba guys. I've never seen so many of these guys in starting lineups MLB wide. Even with poor slashlines they stick around. Shills like Boog prop them up with insignificant positive data or label them as leaders, or good clubhouse guys.

Barry bonds comes out swinging at the HOF

https://sports.yahoo.com/bonds-sounds-o ... 34304.html

This was a something.

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Mets beat the Dodgers:
Robertson (W)
Robertson (L)

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Jeff Passan broken back from tree falling on him. Hope he’s ok.

I was thinking about throwing down some money on a couple teams with long odds. FanDuel had the Red Sox at +10000 on Saturday. I woke up today to see their odds cut in half at +5000. Taking 2 out of 3 from a 3rd place NL Central team shouldn’t do that.

There’s value though with some of these teams in the wild card hunt now that there’s 3 teams that make it and no one and done elimination game anymore.

most consecutive series of 2+ games without being swept:

1942-44 Cardinals: 125
1903-05 Giants: 106
1922-24 Yankees: 83
1904-06 A’s: 74
2003-05 Braves: 72
1997-99 Padres: 72
1921-23 Browns: 72
2022-pres. Orioles: 70 ** active streak

you think verlander gets to 300?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I think he’d need at least 4 more quality years to get there and he’s 40 years old.

So, sure. Why not? It’d be kind of fun to see him out there at 46-47 trying to get to a number.

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He'll probably get his 300th win in late September of 2026 for the 75-83 White Sox.

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WTF is this

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As a Brewers fan, Awesome.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

yeah, the shirtless little kid with the fat gold chain is annoying and weird, but very Philly

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This looks like it actually hurt the catcher:

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For all the shit Reisndorf and Ricketts get , then you see results like this .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

There were similar critiques on Machado and Harper. That's kind of dried up. But I agree 3 of those 5 didn't deserve the payday they got.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

Thank god they didnt pay him and Baez.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

What an asshole, fracturing a finger like assholes do.

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a whole new understanding of have a day.

Complete game 1 hit shutout in game 1 of DH.

2-3 with 2 HRs in game 2 of the DH.

Ohtani is simply amazing.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Last time there was a player like this was 104 years ago on the Red Sox. Stats are pretty much similar, Ohtani maybe a slight edge.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

I just saw Heyman reporting that baseball is attendance is up 9% this year, that is a pretty substantial jump.

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#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

I saw a Tweet yesterday and now of course I can't find it.

Anyway, it showed that only the White Sox and Nationals have had a decrease in attendance vs last season. Both these teams are dumpster fires, and I commend the fans for staying away.

Even the A's are up slightly believe it or not. The biggest jump was the Reds with an increase of 60%. Overall attendance is up 9% this season which is the biggest jump since the steroid race of 1998.

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