Battle Your Tail Off

I love it.  One of my pleasures on TD is when I get comments and discussions - and often other opinions.  This could be really fun - Go Eddie Rosario!

Just now, mikelink45 said:

I love it.  One of my pleasures on TD is when I get comments and discussions - and often other opinions.  This could be really fun - Go Eddie Rosario!

It's a really great idea, thanks for suggesting it to me!

I believe the use of RP, the length of SP appearances, who cares about exit velocity and especially how far a HR was hit?  Who are all those coaches and what do they do? Which coaches are the most important.  .How soon should prospects be called up? How do we shorten games?  What needs to be done to get the popularity of the sport back?  Oh the options.

How will this work?  Will you put up a topic or will the topics come from the posters? If I say, and believe, the baseball is sliding down to the level of hockey public support and interest does that constitute the beginning? I am really worried about our sport. I'm sitting in the Portland airport and just talked with Dave bartender here and his response when I said that I was looking forward to the world series tonight was "I do not interested in baseball anymore it's just the pitcher and the batter and nothing else counts. 

Length of game lack of action, lack of drama, and people are leaving the sport that have watched it as a general interest viewing over the years. I know that baseball is trying to react, but it's too slow and the question is is it too late.  

3 minutes ago, mikelink45 said:

How will this work?  Will you put up a topic or will the topics come from the posters? If I say, and believe, the baseball is sliding down to the level of hockey public support and interest does that constitute the beginning? I am really worried about our sport. I'm sitting in the Portland airport and just talked with Dave bartender here and his response when I said that I was looking forward to the world series tonight was "I do not interested in baseball anymore it's just the pitcher and the batter and nothing else counts. 

Length of game lack of action, lack of drama, and people are leaving the sport that have watched it as a general interest viewing over the years. I know that baseball is trying to react, but it's too slow and the question is is it too late.  

Here is the format and rules: 

 

Here is where you can request a topic: 

If you check out the forum itself, there are already future topics with one participant, just waiting for an opponent to throw their hat in the ring.

On 10/29/2021 at 12:01 PM, mikelink45 said:

How will this work?  Will you put up a topic or will the topics come from the posters? If I say, and believe, the baseball is sliding down to the level of hockey public support and interest does that constitute the beginning? I am really worried about our sport. I'm sitting in the Portland airport and just talked with Dave bartender here and his response when I said that I was looking forward to the world series tonight was "I do not interested in baseball anymore it's just the pitcher and the batter and nothing else counts. 

Length of game lack of action, lack of drama, and people are leaving the sport that have watched it as a general interest viewing over the years. I know that baseball is trying to react, but it's too slow and the question is is it too late.  

The first H2H debate is now live ... opening statements tonight, Poster A will submit a rebuttal post tomorrow, Poster B on Tuesday, Poster A again on Wednesday, Poster B on Thursday; then both will give a closing statement on Friday. Each of the posts will go live (approx) the same time each evening ... then on Saturday, we will open the debate up for voting. Hoping to get the next one started next week ... so ... if you are so inclined ... we await your PM saying you want a go at it  

this looks awesome.