Texsox

Blue Jays

Hey gas stations, that $75 limit is costing you business when I have a 36 gallon tank and I'm paying $4 a gallon. You only want $75 of my business, that's all you're getting and I'm not stopping back.

I'm kind of sad about that.

True. Although the Dodgers may disagree.

I'm not certain I could watch a Duke - Saint Peters game.

Athletic has us as a top WS contender.

I believe you are speaking for a lot of hard core fans. At least I hope so. But I think we've seen business take over tradition post Curt Flood. If three fans take our place what direction should MLB go? As we know it's a business. Using the Cubs versus Sox battle for market share as an example. Most of us know intelligent, baseball fans of both teams. Those may be split fairly evenly between the teams. We joke about the idiot Cub fans but those idiots are the numbers that shift back and forth between teams. We complain about bandwagon jumpers, but same thing, those are the groups marketing is fighting over. All those silly promotion nights? Those are not for the hardcore fan. Why did the AL add the DH? Not for hardcore fans, but to add a little star power in a line up and excite the casual fan. Purists disliked it but the common fan won. Night games? Hard core fans took vacation days to watch day games, not casual fans. For me I enjoy watching on person two evenly matched teams go at it. I don't need bobbleheads and fireworks. I doesn't need to be a playoff game, although meaningless September games at the MLB level seem silly.

Fair enough.

It's behind a paywall or I would link it. The Athletic has the Dodgers as the favorite to win the WS with the Sox in a small group of top contenders. Once again, why are the smartest baseball minds in America writing for Soxtalk while dummies get national exposure? They just gloss over no 2nd or RF. List Kimbrel as an asset? Playing in a weak division is the only reason they will even sniff the playoffs.

Fans vote with their pocketbooks. They will get the league they are most willing to pay for. It's really the only way fans have any input. The millions of casual fans will out vote the hard core traditionalists every time. So DH? Lined players pockets. 162 game season? Lined pockets. AL and NL merger? Lined pockets. Interleague play? Lined pockets? Night games? Lined pockets. Speeding up games is better for television, lining pockets. I'm the opposite. If it doesn't line pockets, in others words if the fans won't buy it, then I'm suspicious.

Just like the last few have been painful. Rehab isn't easy.

Hey Cub fans. Anytime you have a chance to watch Nick play, go. You never know when he'll be out for six weeks.

Or a slow spiral to oblivion. It's a challenge to balance old school with modern aesthetics.

It just makes sense. Let's modernize baseball.

My brackets are an almost total bust at the match play.

Several media outlets are reporting MLB will have a decision by April 16.

I'm with Balta in this. It seems like pitching is the hardest to replace and stay competitive.

I do.

You'll be in prison or face a firing squad. Sadly in war it's ok to kill that guy but not that guy.

Sucks for the guy. He's had a tough career, although a lot was self inflicted.

I want to see JR cuddling with TLR in the dugout between innings.

This would be the first post at Padretalk.com just to set the proper tone.

But not conquering is worth committing murder for? That's a huge step and big self sacrifice.

It makes me sad that cheating is so widespread this is necessary.