SoCalTiger Posted yesterday at 10:40 PM Posted yesterday at 10:40 PM 3 hours ago, chasfh said: I had never understood the rationale behind 154 beyond mere nostalgia for something almost no one today was alive to see, but it can actually work, mathematically, in a 30-team situation: 12 games with your division rivals; 6 games with the other ten teams in the league; four games with a designated rival in the other league; and three games with each of the other 14 teams in the other league. That’s 154. It might get a little touch trickier when they go to eight four-team divisions and they want to maintain separate leagues. 12 with each team in your division; six with the 12 league teams outside your division; and three with the 16 teams in the other league equals 156. If they want to maintain four games with a designated rival, that’s 157. If they don’t mind an odd number of games in a season, and i don’t see why they should, that should work okay. The Players would be thrilled by a reduced schedule that also reduces the 172-day service year to 164 or 166, although they might accept 172 as long as it includes more in-season games off. One of the main concerns is how Baseball would reduce salaries by 8/162 = 5%, but I could see Baseball agreeing to maintain current contracts in exchange for reduced minimum salaries. You just explained it Quote
Tiger337 Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago How about they play baseball all year? Three seasons of 80 games each. Not every city would have a team in all three seasons. Player stats would cover the entire year without league distinction and players would be individually rewarded at the end of the year. Each player can only play up to 162 games per year, so they won't get two burned out and stats will be comparable with past traditional seasons. Baseball all year round for baseball nuts and three sets of playoffs for playoff fans. Quote
monkeytargets39 Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago After this week it’ll probably be in the high 50s to low 60s minimum for the rest of the season. It’ll be cold for the first homestand but if that’s it, that’s a lot better than other years recently. Remember the Miggy snow HR? Quote
gehringer_2 Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago (edited) 24 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said: You just explained it right. In the 8 team league they were playing each team 22 times = 154. When the leagues expanded to 10 in 1962 it went to playing 9 teams 18 times = 162. 9 times 17 would have been 153 but then home/away wouldn't have been balanced. Edited 23 hours ago by gehringer_2 Quote
oblong Posted 22 hours ago Posted 22 hours ago 154 games won’t net much in terms of better weather. And they are not going to force teams to play a lot of home games in April because they are in a dome or warmer climate Quote
chasfh Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago 16 hours ago, IdahoBert said: I had a Sporting News stat book of all-time great players when I was a kid and I was amazed that Joe DiMaggio played 186 games one year in the PCL and another year 172. Of course the PCL had the milder West Coast climate in its favor. The Pacific League had a well-over 200-game season in 1905. Three different teams both won and lost over 100 games. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/league.cgi?id=47653d3c 1 Quote
chasfh Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago 13 hours ago, Tiger337 said: How about they play baseball all year? Three seasons of 80 games each. Not every city would have a team in all three seasons. Player stats would cover the entire year without league distinction and players would be individually rewarded at the end of the year. Each player can only play up to 162 games per year, so they won't get two burned out and stats will be comparable with past traditional seasons. Baseball all year round for baseball nuts and three sets of playoffs for playoff fans. The NFL and NBA and their broadcast partners would never allow it. I’d like to see MLB Network air some Caribbean league in-season games. The Puerto Rico season runs November into January. I don’t understand why they don’t do that. I believe games are already televised there, why not just pick up the feed and have a couple of minor league broadcasters call the games from a studio in Secaucus? Quote
romad1 Posted 8 hours ago Posted 8 hours ago 1 hour ago, chasfh said: The NFL and NBA and their broadcast partners would never allow it. I’d like to see MLB Network air some Caribbean league in-season games. The Puerto Rico season runs November into January. I don’t understand why they don’t do that. I believe games are already televised there, why not just pick up the feed and have a couple of minor league broadcasters call the games from a studio in Secaucus? by this you mean the actual channel not the MLB app which appears to show these weird games with their local ads all off-season. If you want to know what the Dominican Republic's citizens ad market looks like, its very interesting...almost more interesting than the games. 1 Quote
Tiger337 Posted 8 hours ago Posted 8 hours ago 2 hours ago, chasfh said: The NFL and NBA and their broadcast partners would never allow it. I’d like to see MLB Network air some Caribbean league in-season games. The Puerto Rico season runs November into January. I don’t understand why they don’t do that. I believe games are already televised there, why not just pick up the feed and have a couple of minor league broadcasters call the games from a studio in Secaucus? yeah, I know it would never happen! Quote
lordstanley Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago Opening Day forty years ago, when the champion Tigers got their rings. 1 1 Quote
Tigermojo Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago (edited) MLB.tv screwing the pooch again.... Edited 5 hours ago by Tigermojo Quote
IdahoBert Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago Was listening to the “pregame” in the car and it was mostly a chat with a Blue Cross guy whose message was “hey we’re the good guys don’t shoot us in the back.” I kept muting it in the car thinking when I came back it would be over and the darn thing must’ve lasted 10 minutes. Quote
Edman85 Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago 8 minutes ago, IdahoBert said: Was listening to the “pregame” in the car and it was mostly a chat with a Blue Cross guy whose message was “hey we’re the good guys don’t shoot us in the back.” I kept muting it in the car thinking when I came back it would be over and the darn thing must’ve lasted 10 minutes. Yeah, I heard that too and switched it off pretty quickly... 1 Quote
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