Metalmad Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 Looks like we will have a baseball season after all..... first games set to play April 7
Jim N Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 I saw that, and while I am not much of a baseball fan, there are a lot of common folks who earn their living at the parks. I am glad they will be earning money soon.
imarriedawitch Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 I used to be a big fan but lost interest when they decided playing the teams in your division 19 times each was a good idea. For me 47% of your season against just 4 teams wears really thin after awhile.
SfanGoch Posted March 12, 2022 Posted March 12, 2022 From 1969 to 1992, National League teams would play their division rivals 18 times and out of division teams 12 times. The AL followed the same format from '69-'76.
imarriedawitch Posted March 12, 2022 Posted March 12, 2022 10 hours ago, SfanGoch said: From 1969 to 1992, National League teams would play their division rivals 18 times and out of division teams 12 times. The AL followed the same format from '69-'76. I started watching when the Blue Jays came into the American League. I think at that time there were two divisions of seven teams. It was the later expansion and realignment to three divisions of five teams that to me created the feeling that I was seeing the same four divisional teams night after night.
SfanGoch Posted March 12, 2022 Posted March 12, 2022 From 1901 through 1960, there were eight teams in each league. League rivals played each other 22 times. The length of the season was 154 games until 1961, when the AL season was expanded to 162 games. Additionally, the AL expanded to 10 teams. The NL still played a 154 game season in 1961, expanding to 10 teams and playing 162 games in the 1962 season. Fun fact: The first known photograph of someone giving the middle finger was of pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn of the Boston Beaneaters. "Old Hoss" was captured flipping the bird in a team photo taken on April 29, 1886. Hoss is in the back row, far left. While pitching for the Providence Grays in 1884, Old Hoss started 73 starts, had 73 complete games, pitched 678.2 innings, had 441 strikeouts and an ERA of 1.38. Oh, he also went 60-12, most wins ever in a single season. 1884. incidentally, was the first season pitchers (NL only. Other leagues kept the ban on overhand pitches.) threw overhand. Today's sissyman pitchers think it's a major accomplishment to last six innings.
imarriedawitch Posted March 12, 2022 Posted March 12, 2022 Since the DH is coming to the National League is it time to merge the two leagues and realign the divisions?
SfanGoch Posted March 12, 2022 Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) The reality is that there haven't been two separate leagues since the positions of AL and NL presidents were abolished and interleague play started in 1997. Interleague play did away with that illusion. Edited March 12, 2022 by SfanGoch
TransAmMike Posted March 13, 2022 Posted March 13, 2022 With the new union/MLB agreement I'm sure glad that both leagues will use DH's and that stupid token runner on 2d base in extra innings is gone. Hearing now the Yankees are closing in on a 10 year deal on Carlos Correa. Hope they'll be happy paying him and being injured every season. Oh well. 1
SfanGoch Posted March 13, 2022 Posted March 13, 2022 Being a long suffering Mets fan, I couldn't agree more.
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