May 20, 2004
BASEBALL NOTES:
Three quick notes from tonight's Red Sox/Tampa Bay game:
(1) The Lightning have won more games in the NHL post-season that the Devil Rays have in the MLB regular season.
(2) Pitchers in the NL are hitting a combined .152. Tampa Bay designated hitters are hitting a combined .153 for the season.
(3) Victor Zambrano threw 29 pitches in the first without one being put in play--he walked the bases loaded and struck out the side.
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 20, 2004 8:36 PMMLB needs to relegate 4 teams to AAA. this is one of them.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 21, 2004 12:32 PMExcept the Rays ended up winning that game.
As for sending whole teams to AAA, I nominate the Mariners for that category. The whole team is like being downwind of a feedlot.
What are you going to do when baseball dies out? It's inevitable. It's a sport from the old days when people were content with getting excited every 40 minutes or so. We live in an era when it's much easier to be entertained, because technology and progress have allowed for more reliably frequent thrills. Americans don't have to endure a bunch of guys standing on a field waiting for something to maybe happen.
I guess the simplest way to put it is to say that BASEBALL IS BORING, and we have arrived at an age when people don't have to put up with being bored.
Oh, wait, I forgot -- "hitting a small ball is the hardest feat to accomplish in sport," or whatever it is you're always claiming. Yeah, boy, that'll keep 'em coming through the turnstiles.
Posted by: ride at May 22, 2004 9:32 PMNOTE: I have duplicated the above post into another, unrelated thread, in hopes that it will actually receive a response.
If I have offended this site's operators -- either because of the post's content or because of the off-topic duplication -- then I offer my somewhat sincere apologies.
Posted by: ride at May 23, 2004 7:29 PM