Agreed, it's bizarre. Perhaps I'm just disillusioned by the general lack of interest in Boston at the moment, but it really seems as if MLB has dropped the ball in appealing to a younger generation of fans.Don Bradman said:I don't know about other teams, but the Red Sox make this impossible for most. By the time the gates open they are mostly done and the road team has the field. Never understood why that's a good move from a marketing perspective. When I was a kid, my dad wouldn't even bother taking us to the game if we couldn't get there in time for BP and, more importantly, infield practice, which is now an artifact of a bygone age.
soxhop411 said:
soxhop411 said:
Someone is getting fired
It is a common practice on all levels of baseball that the home team takes BP first and the road team gets BP second.Don Bradman said:I don't know about other teams, but the Red Sox make this impossible for most. By the time the gates open they are mostly done and the road team has the field. Never understood why that's a good move from a marketing perspective. When I was a kid, my dad wouldn't even bother taking us to the game if we couldn't get there in time for BP and, more importantly, infield practice, which is now an artifact of a bygone age.
They use to let you in early enough to see the home team. Now they don't.RedOctober3829 said:It is a common practice on all levels of baseball that the home team takes BP first and the road team gets BP second.
They were fun, but they often made you wonder whether the video of the swing, like that Mantle one, and the flight of the ball were really related.adam42381 said:A little late, but I absolutely loved the reruns of the 1960's HR Derby shows when I was a kid. My brother and I would play our own derby in the yard then race inside to watch it in the afternoons during summer break in the 80's.
DeJesus Built My Hotrod said:Did Berman exclaim "Christ!" on that Jones foul ball? I rewound it but it was unclear.
I'm not sure I want you to get off.Snodgrass'Muff said:I'm pretty sure Old Spice just raped my mind. That was one of the most bizarre commercials I've ever seen.
mabrowndog said:Bert "Be Home" Blyleven.
DRINK!
soxhop411 said:Should not have made him sit for over an hour
Kenny Mayne?E5 Yaz said:I was trying to think who ESPN has that would be good at announcing this thing, and the best I could come up with was, maybe. John Anderson. Among former employees, Eisen could do it.
Jaylach said:Think we can unload Stanton back to the Marlins?