Watching Padres v Rockies. Bud Black has just been ejected for arguing a successful Padres challenge to an out at home plate.
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Maybe they feel sorry for the other teams in the league.
Shedding White and not getting a major league pitcher back seems strange given the general condition of the staff.
Getting too invested in a MLB team isn't good for one's mental and emotional health.
If only someone had told me when I was three years old.
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Jays pick up Whit Merrifield from KC, and relievers Anthony Bass and Zach Pop from Miami. The latter is one to add to the excellent list of MLB names. Never figured out why it does so much better in that regard than other sports.
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Yeah. He's going to "work through it with his family" according to Jays' GM Ross Atkins. You'd hope they'd have sorted this beforehand but it's Rogers after all. Pop's from Brampton, Canada's sport capital. Half the Canadian men's soccer team is from there and it's also a huge lacrosse centre.Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 03-08-2022, 01:38.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI sense that it isn’t well-organized. If it were, the professional version would be a lot more successful.
Basketball and soccer can draw on communities that aren't as hockey centric, but outside the First Nations, the lacrosse demographic IS the hockey demographic.
And expansion of the league is fraught because the outdoor game is massively more popular in places like Baltimore and Long Island. It is very hard to build a major league out of Ontario and Upstate New York (Buffalo usually leads the league in attendance).
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I guess that’s it. Although Saskatchewan and Calgary also drew relatively well this year as did Colorado and Hamilton (still called Toronto).
It’s also not ideal for TV. On TV, it’s harder to see the ball in lacrosse than it is to see the puck in hockey.
Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 03-08-2022, 02:16.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostBasketball and soccer can draw on communities that aren't as hockey centric, but outside the First Nations, the lacrosse demographic IS the hockey demographic.Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 03-08-2022, 02:57.
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- Mar 2008
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- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until Jose is fired), Liverpool, and Dortmund
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I am admittedly biased but he was top of the pyramid. I heard Harwell when I lived in Michigan for 4 years and he was excellent. I didn't get to hear some of the legends that pre-dated Vin or that were out and back in, like Mel Allen. But Vin was the best.
I think there are a lot of excellent announcers right now, but Vin had a gift for calling a game and weaving a story at the same time. Other announcers that I like a lot (Mets TV, Giants TV, I was a big fan of Sterling and Kay when they were the Yankees radio team) have a unique style but they tend to weave short anecdotes amidst calling the game. The storytelling isn't present. And I've posted before that Vin's partners in rotation (Ross Porter and Rick Monday) made an excellent team but he was different. Of course, to mimic his approach would not have made sense.
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