MLB Pseudo-Season 2020: Roger, Dodgers

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  1. Timby

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    Two weeks sounds like really wishful thinking. Illinois governor JB Pritzker is recommending no sporting events in Illinois until May, per The Athletic.
     
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    Yeah, I would be very surprised if it's only two weeks, especially when you consider the NCAA tournament was completely cancelled it would've run well into April.
     
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    To be fair, Pritzker is a fucking moron, so there's that. He can make up the difference by taxing something else.

    I'm not sure MLB sticks to "2 weeks" if a longer wait is warranted, it sounds more like a starting point.
     
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    two weeks minimum, and then at least a week or two for the players to ramp back up again (spring training didn't finish). June as the start date for a shorter season? Put me down for late in the week after Memorial Day for opening day. Unless things go to shit completely, in which case...?
     
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    Owners will fight having a shorter season unless the players agree to a pay cut of some sort, get ready for a late December world series.
     
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    Nothing like waking up on Christmas morning and getting excited to watch Game 7 between the Texas Rangers and Atlanta Braves.

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    RE: new thread title LOL

    Yall will just do anything to pick on poor defenseless trash can lid connoisseurs. Trash can lid banging is an art form. When I was growing up we banged trash can lids all the time. Not to signal pitches in a baseball park, but just to irritate someone. Those poor Astros were just trying to point out the dust on the home plate and look at what everyone says now.

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    Now pushed to mid-May.
     
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    Not surprised in the slightest. At this point, the season will definitely be abbreviated.
     
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    Yeah, we're looking at 144 games at most, and that's with a lot of doubleheaders added. Probably will wind up shaking down to around 120-ish at this rate.
     
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    "Let's play two!" ...a lot.

    I see Sunday mentioned a lot for double headers. Why not Saturdays?
     
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    I think they should shoot for a 75-80 game season that starts in July.
     
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    I think June 1 is probably realistic (the pandemic will have receded by then; enveloped viruses like COVID-19 do not survive well in direct sunlight and heat), and if MLB were to go with a weighted schedule, you could squeeze ... 108 games in there? Somewhere around that number, I think.
     
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    I'm watching lots of old games on YouTube to get my baseball fix. Latest game is a regular season game between the Cubs and Phillies in 1993. Pitching matchup was Danny Jackson vs Greg Hibbard.


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  16. Timby

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    When the fuck is Burns going to get off his ass and make The Eleventh Inning? The Tenth Inning spends far too much time fellating the Red Sox and not exploring the other endemic issues within baseball.
     
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    If you think he spent too much time fellating the Sox, then I would have to object to the wet, sloppy rim job he gave the Yankees in The Tenth Inning, to the point where the Phillies' 2008 World Series championship was barely even mentioned; just a tiny pothole on the road to the eternal reign of YEAH JEETS and the Yankees. Fucking barf.
     
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    MLB Network is running the May 17th, 1979 Phillies Cubs game that ended up 23-22 Phillies.
     
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    Chris Sale's "season" is done. TJ surgery upcoming.
     
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