MLB season opener on March 19 is completely ridiculous. We haven’t even had the first “real” game of March Madness yet.
March/April 2024 MLB Gamethread
- Thread starter DeadlySplitter
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What's the solution?
Reduce the playoffs? Not going to happen.
Reduce the regular season? Not going to happen.
Stop trying to promote the game outside of North America? Not going to happen.
The only downside to starting the season in mid-March and having the season run into November is increased chances of playing in bad weather. Otherwise, as a fan, the more days with baseball the better. The worst part of the year is the time between the end of the World Series and the start of spring training because there's no baseball to watch.
I was going to say "Why should MLB give a rat's ass about college basketball?" but your answer was better
I wonder if this game and tomorrow’s will get better ratings and more discussion than they would have on some random day in April. Or May. Or June. Etc.
I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but this was all over the LA morning news shows today. And not just “the Dodgers are hosting the Padres tonight, so expect traffic near the stadium” like the usual coverage extends to.
I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but this was all over the LA morning news shows today. And not just “the Dodgers are hosting the Padres tonight, so expect traffic near the stadium” like the usual coverage extends to.
A 3am first pitch in LA/SD probably won't lead to great ratings but the novelty alone garners it more attention, I imagine. It was special enough for me to watch and the chances of me watching a Dodgers-Padres game live in any other circumstance are pretty small. I'm awake 6am-9am eastern far more often than I'm awake at 10pm-1am.
Opposite for me but that doesn’t matter. They can still promote the game in Asia without having the games there in mid-March
Tv ratings here will most likely be terrible, the people who care about these teams the most were sound asleep.
From the inning or two i caught before going to work i seen many open seats which was surprising, i would think a 2 game set in Korea with the best team in the league would draw a sell-out but it sure as hell didn't look like it to me.
Who cares? You almost certainly wouldn't watch these games if they were on the same day as every other Opening Day and you almost certainly won't watch these teams play in their first week back in the US, there's not exactly a limited supply of regular season MLB games. Actually, doing the math, there are 2430 regular season games, I doubt almost anyone not being paid to do so watches much more than maybe 300 of those.
If I was in SoCal, I would care very much.
But I can see why someone in 1271 Avenue of the Americas, or within a 20 mile radius of that, would feel differently.
Not a great start for Yamamoto so far: X rips a first pitch single, and then he hits Tatis, and then Cronenworth rips a triple to plate both of them.
I get that it might be stressful to make his debut after all last night's craziness, but that's the sort of pressure one faces every day when you pitch in NYC or Boston.
Sac fly--3-0 Padres.
Sac fly--3-0 Padres.
This is the guy that everyone wanted the Sox to pull out all the stops for? Bullet dodged. Phew.
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I do wonder if it would have been better for him to start yesterday--i.e, "on the road", so he could possibly get his gameday nerves out watching his team hit before taking the mound.
I had a terrible thought: You think he saw this coming, and that is why he got married? To have his wife now place his bets/take the blame? (a.k.a. the Peyton move.)
That's awesome!
Seriously, that could be the plot of a rom-com.
He either puts a ring on her finger, or she cuts off one of his.
The golden boy with a huge betting scandal and now Yamamoto getting destroyed in his first start. Not how the Dodgers drew it up.
It never is. Spending a lot of money guarantees nothing. The Padres can attest to that as well.
This interview with Teoscar is brutal. The noise makes it hard for him to hear. Just let him concentrate on his job.
"Say it again?"
"Say it again?"
Couldn’t they do this three days before the season starts and then give these two teams the first three days off?