Coronavirus complaint/commiseration thread.

[schindlerpiste]

Meh, I like the DH. No upside for the pitchers. You get pulled early, rarely get on base, increase injury potential, and if you're the pitcher who gives up a big hit to another pitcher you are forever shamed.

Bullshit. Tell that to:
Mike Hampton
Zach Greinke
Adam Wainwright
Don Drysdale
Carlos Zambrano
Bob Gibson
Lefty Carlton
oh and Babe Ruth...

all of whom hit better than many shortstops.

Lack of DH makes for a more strategic "small ball type game with low scoring pitchers' duels.

The reason that pitchers leave the game after 5 innings is expansion (not as many good pitchers to go around) the longstanding trend of specialty pitchers (lefty/righty, set up, closer) and expanded rosters.

[schindlerpiste]

The best way they could do that would be shorten games to 6 innings, and settle ties with a home run contest.

The best way to do that is reduce team rosters to 30 from 40, and make it so no team can have more than 9 pitchers on their roster.

Less pitching changes will reduce game time by 30%

[glademaster]

The best way to do that is reduce team rosters to 30 from 40, and make it so no team can have more than 9 pitchers on their roster.

Less pitching changes will reduce game time by 30%

Not with the same consistency that eliminating 30%(ok, 1/3) of the game will.

While we're at it, I think aluminum bats should be legalized. And get rid of helmets for batters, let's make this interesting. No gloves for outfielders either. Let's see how those soft hands drills paid off.

[jono]

Wrong unit!

He’s high on the Provo scale.
Like 8 Provos.

I call foul, sir! I made an estimate of his location's relative nastiness. How is that not negative Ogdens? What's this Provo thing and how does it relate to a metric range of unrecycleable trash in one's kitchen (not necessarily inside the range)?

[schindlerpiste]

Personally, I like 9 innings for a few reasons:
1: Historical stats (HR, RBI, Hits, etc.) is the criteria by which all players are measured.
2: 5 innings for a game to become official
3: A batter being able to see the pitcher a second, or even 3rd time around. A pitcher is much more effective when a batter has not seen him before
4: Number of innings a pitcher needs to pitch before being eligible for a win
5: Offensive and defensive managerial strategies.

[schindlerpiste]

And get rid of helmets for batters, let's make this interesting.

Tell that to Tony Conigliaro and others who lost their careers

[glademaster]

Tell that to Tony Conigliaro and others who lost their careers

Check the batteries in your sarcasm meter. I figured the paragraph you quoted from was outlandish enough that it would be abundantly clear, but perhaps I was wrong.

[Bunion 2020]

Anyone who has watched the final season of Brockmire will find this eerily familiar.

[schindlerpiste]

It's all good. For me, sarcasm is hard-wired.

[Core Shot]

Personally, I like 9 innings for a few reasons:
1: Historical stats (HR, RBI, Hits, etc.) is the criteria by which all players are measured.
2: 5 innings for a game to become official
3: A batter being able to see the pitcher a second, or even 3rd time around. A pitcher is much more effective when a batter has not seen him before
4: Number of innings a pitcher needs to pitch before being eligible for a win
5: Offensive and defensive managerial strategies.

It’s not the innings. It’s the tv time outs and the warmup pitches.

They need to keep the game moving, sneak ads in where they can, do picture in picture ads etc.

When I was a lad, a double header was not eight hours.

From wiki
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In 1959, at least one league played a quarter of their games as classic doubleheaders. The rate declined to 10% in 1979. Eventually, eight years passed between two officially scheduled doubleheaders. Reasons for the decline include clubs' desire to maximize revenue, longer duration of games, five-day pitching rotation as opposed to four-day rotation, time management of relievers and catchers, and lack of consensus among players.[2]

The record for the most doubleheaders played by a team in a season is 44 by the Chicago White Sox in 1943.[3] Between September 4 and September 15, 1928, the Boston Braves played nine consecutive doubleheaders – 18 games in 12 days.[3]

[iceman]

Should I take my coronavirus bitch to the baseball thread? I got one but it seems like it would be out of place here.

[Norseman]

Please derail this baseball shit

[TahoeJ]

Bullshit. Tell that to:
Mike Hampton
Zach Greinke
Adam Wainwright
Don Drysdale
Carlos Zambrano
Bob Gibson
Lefty Carlton
oh and Babe Ruth...

all of whom hit better than many shortstops.

Lack of DH makes for a more strategic "small ball type game with low scoring pitchers' duels.

The reason that pitchers leave the game after 5 innings is expansion (not as many good pitchers to go around) the longstanding trend of specialty pitchers (lefty/righty, set up, closer) and expanded rosters.

Madison Bumgarner is going to be angry you left him off that list. ;-)

I love National League baseball. The DH eliminates so much strategy from the game.

In general... baseball is screwed compared to the NBA and NFL. The latter two leagues have monster TV contracts, baseball not nearly as much and far more reliant on ticket sales, etc.

[iceman]

I tried to post this in the MLB thread but that big pic of skinny CC freaked me out and I had to retreat. So, I received a little bit of a virus safety beatdown here at home earlier from my wife and daughter, with them trying to get all sciencey on me. And a few minutes ago I walked in on the two of them in a deep dive on astrology. wtf. This shall not stand. Hold my beer and watch this, fellas.

[glademaster]

I tried to post this in the MLB thread but that big pic of skinny CC freaked me out and I had to retreat. So, I received a little bit of a virus safety beatdown here at home earlier from my wife and daughter, with them trying to get all sciencey on me. And a few minutes ago I walked in on the two of them in a deep dive on astrology. wtf. This shall not stand. Hold my beer and watch this, fellas.

This is already more exciting than any baseball game I've ever watched.

[The AD]

Should I take my coronavirus bitch to the baseball thread? I got one but it seems like it would be out of place here.

I tried searching for the baseball thread, but came up empty. Furthermore, lack of baseball certainly seems to fit into Coronavirus complaint and commiseration.

[Danno]

The reason that pitchers leave the game after 5 innings is expansion (not as many good pitchers to go around) the longstanding trend of specialty pitchers (lefty/righty, set up, closer) and expanded rosters.

Fairly sure that the primary reason pitchers leave the game after 5 innings is analytics.

[riser4]

I tried to post this in the MLB thread but that big pic of skinny CC freaked me out and I had to retreat. So, I received a little bit of a virus safety beatdown here at home earlier from my wife and daughter, with them trying to get all sciencey on me. And a few minutes ago I walked in on the two of them in a deep dive on astrology. wtf. This shall not stand. Hold my beer and watch this, fellas.

Let me make some popcorn. And freshen my beverage.

[schindlerpiste]

My Corona bitch of the day:
OK, so I haven't eaten out since the beginning of March. Yesterday, we hiked up Collins and built up an appetite, so we decided to get takeout at out favorite wings place. This was my first curbside pick up experience. The worker walked out of the store handed us the wings and fried pickles, and I inserted my credit card. The bill was something like $44.50. He asked me whether I wanted to leave a tip. I thought that the question was a bit weird, but out of sympathy for the service provider, I said OK and thought that I would give him $3-5. Then he asked whether I wanted to leave 15%, 20% or 25%. I told him that I wanted to leave him $5. He replied that was only 15% (not in a nasty way).
I'm wondering whether people are expected to tip on curbside? I think that restaurants should pay the people who walk from the front door of the restaurant to the car minimum wage, because not everyone will tip 15%-20% for curbside delivery.

[riser4]

My Corona bitch of the day:
OK, so I haven't eaten out since the beginning of March. Yesterday, we hiked up Collins and built up an appetite, so we decided to get takeout at out favorite wings place. This was my first curbside pick up experience. The worker walked out of the store handed us the wings and fried pickles, and I inserted my credit card. The bill was something like $44.50. He asked me whether I wanted to leave a tip. I thought that the question was a bit weird, but out of sympathy for the service provider, I said OK and thought that I would give him $3-5. Then he asked whether I wanted to leave 15%, 20% or 25%. I told him that I wanted to leave him $5. He replied that was only 15% (not in a nasty way).
I'm wondering whether people are expected to tip on curbside? I think that restaurants should pay the people who walk from the front door of the restaurant to the car minimum wage, because not everyone will tip 15%-20% for curbside delivery.

Ya, deli and window service tops out at 10% for me. Curbside is no difference.

[Core Shot]

Interesting cop Coronavirus rant

Unless wings and baseball are more important.



I guess he got a million views.

And fired.

[Skidog]

I tried to post this in the MLB thread but that big pic of skinny CC freaked me out and I had to retreat. So, I received a little bit of a virus safety beatdown here at home earlier from my wife and daughter, with them trying to get all sciencey on me. And a few minutes ago I walked in on the two of them in a deep dive on astrology. wtf. This shall not stand. Hold my beer and watch this, fellas.

How can they possibly talk science and believe in astrology? Does not compute.

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[Benny Profane]

Ya, deli and window service tops out at 10% for me. Curbside is no difference.

Um, risking one's life might be worth, oh, maybe, 15%, maybe? Jezuz. Or learn to cook, cheap bastards.

[Flyoverland Captive]

Um, risking one's life might be worth, oh, maybe, 15%, maybe? Jezuz. Or learn to cook, cheap bastards.

No shit. 20% is the standard for us; a couple extra dollars ain’t gonna break the bank.

[Danno]

10% may be normal for me doing deli/takeout, but when it's a restaurant that is now closed to all but takeout, and the workers are used to relying on better tips and are surely scraping by, I'd give a more normal table service tip.

That said I am broke and not doing takeout, so take this advice with a boulder of salt.