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1. Der-K's tired of these fruits from poisoned trees Posted: May 09, 2022 at 04:28 PM (#6075920)Defense in a home run derby?
Indeed so.
What I haven't seen is are the batters going to be hitting off a tee, facing BP-level pitching, or -- since the defense also can score -- facing a pitcher who is trying to retire them. Regardless, I can't imagine "content creators" having any value whatsoever in terms of trying to win the game. Baseball is hard. Even HRDX "baseball."
Baseball's demise has been prophesied for awhile now and unfortunately its denouement has truly and actually started. A lot of it was self-inflicted, but it's unfortunate nonetheless.
(*) Oh, yeah, and of course bat flips and poses galore.
I don't think there's any long-term market in offering up a bunch of faceless hard-throwing automatons no one cares about making it ever harder to hit the ball. There's no commercial reason not to tinker with the whole idea of "pitching" in order to find the most marketable balance. What we have now is absolutely, positively the most marketable pitching one could conceive of.
Eventually what will happen is that some variant of HRDX -- maybe not Version 1.0, but some other version -- will become clearly more compelling than MLB itself. At that point, either "baseball" and "HDRX" will become some sort of combination, with each taking the best parts of the other -- or MLB will cease to play baseball as we know it altogether.
I never thought I would live to see an anti-Blern.
All those and more!
It is quite telling that Manfred's idea to grow baseball internationally is to put together a touring circus show that plays something which is most emphatically not baseball.
This is England. It could be Teletubbies.
It's not exactly clear how excited the "culture" gets about Test cricket.
Dua Lipa?
You've got my attention.
Maybe they can get the new Dr Who to give it a go.
Call me an optimist, but it seems far more likely that HRDX will just sorta disappear into the ether after a short period of confused apathy.
Bumper sticker I saw in California c. 2019: I NEVER THOUGHT I'D MISS W
The best kind of correct, is what this is. Better to think of a 5-day Test as if it were a 7-game playoff series, frankly. We seem to be able to get excited for those. And Test cricket has only ever been a huge draw sporadically over the last 50 years; it's an exceptional series or dominant few years by a major national team that draws crowds. TV ratings aren't great either.
As much as HRDX sounds fairly utterly stupid to me, cricket could offer an interesting contrast here - the Twenty20 game type, which effectively compresses a 1-day game into around the length of a modern MLB game - he said, fully aware of the implications. Twenty20s were widely predicted to result in the downfall of the sport when introduced a couple of decades ago, and they've certainly ignited a lot of change.
But 5-day Tests are still considered the pinnacle, and even the longer 1-day games haven't been completely squeezed out (the last ODI World Cup in England in 2019 was fairly well attended). Standards of hitting and fielding have arguably increased due to lessons learned in the shorter format. Sometimes the new and the old can, uneasily, co-exist.
This is England. It could be Teletubbies.
Or The Young Ones. Or Basil Fawlty.
Sure, but they did it by selling them cars, not pogo sticks.
That seems un-possible. How can you $30M on a couple of games?
It still seems like a lot to me, but I'm completely guessing on a lot of this, and that's before you get into the slanted accounting where they tell one group that it's a money-maker because they'll sell a bunch of extra merch and MLB.tv subs because of it but don't actually count that against the cost of the event when it comes time to file taxes.
Well, he did the same with the Major Leagues -- this is just more of the same.
With the right marketing you could probably have something similar with baseball games. Just play regular baseball games and don’t do all these stupid gimmicks. There should be an audience.
I have schoolfriends who have never been to the US in their lives but who have adopted NFL teams for their fandom, and several of them have been to at least one of the London games over the last decade or so. That idea would have seemed laughable to them in the 90s. I wonder if the top tier of English football reaching new heights of commercialization has made US sports seem less alien to the British. Plus streaming services and social media improving access, and so on.
The days when I got to see - or rather videotape for future viewing - one or two MLB games per week, broadcast after midnight local time, between whichever teams were available to Britain's least popular free-to-air station seem pretty distant now. Not to mention scouring the corners of London sports stores for imported VHS tapes of Ken Burns' Baseball series at $40 a pop, hoping that somehow they had more of the volumes I was still missing.
Not international ones, but until a few years ago long form domestic games in England were played over three days - it's four these days.
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