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  1. Nine of twelve
    But the public money that goes to sports is a very small percentage of the overall revenue, and it's mostly for infrastructure, in other words stadiums. I think it's OK for taxpayers to contribute some of the money for stadiums because having viable professional sports contributes to the overall liveability and vibrancy of a large metropolitan area.
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    It's easy to gripe about how much the players make but there's no reason the owners should get a huge payoff either. Nobody complains how much money Tom Hanks or Paul McCartney has made and the players are entertainers just like them. The reality is that we fans contribute huge sums to the sport and the players are the reason we do that. Hence, the players should get most of the dough.
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    I think the timetable on free agency is probably about right and I think the players are entitled to at least as large a share of revenue as they currently receive, but I think the revenue sharing system needs to be adjusted. It's a recipe for apathy in half the country for the highest-revenue teams to continue to have a large advantage in the free agent market. Owners need to be aware that for the sport to maximize its total revenue every team should have a reasonably similar chance to sign top free agents.
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    In the six years of the two-wild-card format the number of wins for the second AL team have been 93, 92, 88, 86, 89, 85. I think 90 could do it because teams from other divisions will play more difficult schedules than Cleveland and Minnesota.
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    I don't think tanking for the first pick in the baseball draft is really worth it. Basketball, yes. Football and hockey, probably. Baseball, no. You can certainly wind up with a top-flight player like the Nationals did two years in a row with Strasburg and Harper. But as this list will show, it's also very easy to select a journeyman or worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_overall_Major_League_Baseball_draft_picks
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    I identify with this. There are two seasons to every year: baseball season and waiting for baseball season.
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    Want more action? Make the strike zone larger so that batters will swing at more pitches. Decrease the height of the mound so that pitchers won't be able to strike as many batters out.
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    This is a bad idea. Managers should not have an artificial constraint like this getting in the way of managing a game. The purpose of minor league baseball is player development. Winning games is of low priority. It's much more like spring training baseball than it is like regular season major league baseball. Pitchers are used based on how much work they need, not based on how they can help win a given game. For that reason, comparing the length of major league relief appearances and the length of minor league relief appearances is worthless data.
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    What this article fails to discuss is the actual accuracy of automated systems vs accuracy of MLB umpires. I don't have a citation off the top of my head but I have read previously on this site that the automated systems, while far from perfect, have a higher percentage of correct calls than umpires.
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    You can call it whatever you like, but the objective is to convince the umpire that a pitch is a strike whether the pitch is in the strike zone or not. This is not how things should be. If a pitch is in the strike zone it should be called a strike. If it is not it should be called a ball. If automated systems perform this task better than umpires, and they do, the umpires should be replaced and this aspect of catching would properly be rendered moot.
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    The term "pitch framing" is a misnomer that euphemizes its true nature. The correct term is "faking out the home plate umpire". The fact that there are metrics for it and that it's a topic of discussion on this web site strongly reflects the need for the implementation of a good automated pitch calling system ASAP.
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    Teams are getting better at drafting as the years progress but baseball is unique in that players are eligible for the draft years before they will develop the skills necessary to play in the majors. It would be interesting to see how many future stars were available at the end of each round of the drafts of years past and picture what kind of team could be constructed out of those players.
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    I would do that in a heartbeart. If I were Tampa Bay.
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    And to those who voted for Colon for any other reason as well.
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    That was one of the coolest home runs ever hit by a Twin, and certainly by far the coolest one ever hit by a Twins pitcher.
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    I disagree because pitches thrown in the periphery of a larger strike zone would be less hittable than pitches in the periphery of the current strike zone. Pitchers wouldn't need to do anywhere near as much nibbling. BTW when I think of a larger strike zone I mean higher and possibly lower strikes. That would result in more popups, easy fly balls and grounders. I don't think the zone should be made wider.
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    Because football has a huddle before every play.
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    8/23/2005 was one of my favorite Santana victories.
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    Batter time clock? Sure. Pitcher time clock? With bases empty, sure. With any base occupied, never.
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    Amen! One of the biggest differences in approach of batters compared with 50 years ago is working the count. A bigger zone would help a lot, however, we don't need an increase in the number of K's, so lower the mound a bit as well to take some of the advantage away from the pitcher.
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    Who gets earpieces? Who gets mics? All 9 players on the field, all coaches, the manager, the stats consultant? Who controls the security of communication, and how? Players cover their mouths when talking because cameras zeroing in on conversations are subject to lip-reading. Bullpen phones are hard wired rather than cellular for the security reasons. I know your suggestion was well-meaning and possibly partly tongue-in-cheek, but I don't think it's anywhere close to viable.
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    Never.
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    Yes. The North Stars were in two Stanley Cup finals. I followed the 1991 team fairly closely but I don't remember a particular moment about the final series that year. I didn't follow 1981 as closely. Maybe someone else can chime in on those.
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    I've been visiting this site for several years but just recently decided to start posting under this user name. Kirby is and will probably always be my favorite baseball player. Like most of us, I do not condone some of the things he did off the field, especially after he left the game, but I also will say that few of us would be able to gracefully handle what he went through. It's such a shame that things happened the way they did. All it would have taken for his life to have turned out differently is a routine eye exam sometime in January of 1996. His glaucoma would have been diagnosed and treated and he would not have suffered the sudden loss of vision in his right eye.
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