weller259 wrote: ↑14 Feb 2023, 9:00pm
However I must say that most Yankee fans' brains are already broken or at the very least wounded, listening to John Sterling and or Michael Kay thinking those people know what they are talking about will do that. Besides, really, the Yankees are not the Mets' biggest rival since they only play 4 times a season. Until the Mets actually WIN something, they will be second fiddle in the New York scene.
I remember reading something long ago—pre-2004—that the Red Sox may have had a rivalry with the Yankees, the Yankees didn't have a rivalry with the Red Sox because Boston always lost to New York. I couldn't dismiss the logic because, well, it was true, right?
I read soemething a week or so ago from somewhere internet-related (can't remember exactly where I saw it) which proposed a geographic realignment within baseball since there is no longer any difference between leagues and they had the Red Sox, Yankees and Mets all in the same division. At first I didn't like the idea but I must say after a week or so thinking about it I now would love to see it, it would be epic I think.
Yeah, I'm enough of a traditionalist to wince at that, but it makes a lot of sense for the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, Phillies, and Baltimore to be their own division based on geography. And it'll eventually happen. Makes more sense than the idea of Florida teams being in the same division. What a fucking bloodbath, tho, in terms of media markets and expected budgets.
I am also going on record and saying the pitch clock is a terrible thing. I also detest the free runner on 2nd to start extra innings. Fucking gimmicks. Why not just have a home run derby if a game is tied after 9, like a shootout. I cannot properly express my disgust at all the changes to baseball (and the NHL) these last 10 years or so. But, this is what we get so let the games begin.
I'm not big on pitch clocks but I'm good with the ghost runner thing. I was skeptical when they first introduced it, but it helped cut to the chase. When a game goes 14 innings, both teams end up losing (and I went to bed before it ended).
No no, I once many years ago got drawn into the whole Hooky Left Nut thing and I instantly regretted it. Surely an FTX coin would be more valuable, no?
Hey, I ain't no crypto! Totally biological!
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft