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That's some cockeyed fiddle playin' bullshit thinking. Ebbets Field, Fenway, Wrigley, Dodger Stadium, Comiskey, Yankee Stadium were all baseball parks.
"baseball is so much better now"
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The one thing I will agree with @Illustrious Potentate on is that players like Hank Aaron had exaggerated stats because of the subpar caliber of pitching
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Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St Louis, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Oakland, Minnesota, Houston, Toronto and Cleveland. That’s enough of em.
And every stadium you mentioned is/was a shit hole
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Although I would give Teddy Ballgame a puncher's chance. As soon as they figure out the best way to defrost him we are in business!
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Another example of the superiority of today's players
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Braves place lefty Allard on 60-day injured list with nerve inflammation in shoulder
The Atlanta Braves have placed left-hander Kolby Allard on the 60-day injured list after he was diagnosed with nerve inflammation in his left shoulder.
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Who's that guy? He a mid-season call-up?And then "modern fastball" pitchers arms fall off 40 games later
Exhibit A Your Honor
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Yeah, that career AAAA pitcher that topped out in the low 90’s is a prime example.Another example of the superiority of today's players
Braves place lefty Allard on 60-day injured list with nerve inflammation in shoulder
The Atlanta Braves have placed left-hander Kolby Allard on the 60-day injured list after he was diagnosed with nerve inflammation in his left shoulder.
Now do all the pitchers who managed to tear their UCL while being a soft tosser that had their career ended prior to the Tommy John surgery being figured out.
How do you blow out your elbow while topping out lower than the average high school pitcher today?
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because you pitch every 3rd day?
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Sounds dumbbecause you pitch every 3rd day?
Only low IQ idiots with no attention span prefer today's game of hit a home run or strikeout! The park has nothing to do with it, of course modern parks are better but the product on the field is not nearly what it was, not even fucking close!
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It’s better. The players are better, the strategy is better, the understanding of what makes a good player is better.
You’re a boomer stuck in the past that didn’t evolve with the game or time, and now it goes too fast for your old brain to keep up with, so you go full yell at cloud mode
I just showed you they weren't. Nothing about the game today is better, unless again you like watching players strikeout then hell yeah it's better!
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You brought up batting average.
The pitchers being much better than they were back then are why strikeout rates are up too. Literally everyone throws 95+ now.
Literally none of this makes sense! How did "The Game" evolve? It's still pitch ball see ball hit ball field ball. Too fast? lolzzz
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Tell me you watch Big 10 football without telling me you watch Big 10 football.
The pitchers are faster, the players are better trained, the pace of play is faster. Games evolve over time.
I know the forward pass in football must be a scary concept for you too
I don't watch college football at all. Not that I dislike it, I am from Minnesota and we don't have a college football team!
It's laughable you think that because pitchers throw harder now that it somehow made the game better.
Pace of play is faster?
Avg time of game 1970 - 2:30
Avg time of game 2022 - 3:03
Quit while you're behind!
In my view baseball has changed for both the worse and the better in my lifetime.
I detest the DH and always will. I think making the catcher blocking the plate illegal took excitement out of the game. I like eliminating the big shift. The 2nd base ghost runner, I'm fine with. I think checking the pitchers every half inning is dumb as fuck. I like the pitch clock, but there are quirks to work out. I'm glad the runner can't murder the guy covering 2nd anymore.
I'd like to see balks called when they happen. That shit is getting crazy. I'd also like to be stricter about runners staying in the base paths.
I detest the DH and always will. I think making the catcher blocking the plate illegal took excitement out of the game. I like eliminating the big shift. The 2nd base ghost runner, I'm fine with. I think checking the pitchers every half inning is dumb as fuck. I like the pitch clock, but there are quirks to work out. I'm glad the runner can't murder the guy covering 2nd anymore.
I'd like to see balks called when they happen. That shit is getting crazy. I'd also like to be stricter about runners staying in the base paths.
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You’re going by last year’s rules, not this years. Game times in 2023 have been cut by nearly 30 minutes from 2022, so much so that stadiums have made the 8th inning the alcohol cutoff.
There’s more pitching changes now, and every game is televised and and has commercials so the time between innings is longer.
You drop any current player in the 1975 MLB and they’ll easily be the best player in the league