swishnicholson wrote:The guy definitely has a point

Baseball's biggest problem isn't strikeouts or analytics or pace of play.

It's curmudgeonly broadcasters that piss on the current game and players. You know what's a bad way to sell a product to young fans? Screaming "get off my lawn!" every night.

Though I would add that's it's not a great selling point to veteran fans either to insist constantly that the game has gone downhill.

The Reds announcer guys are bad that way.

Back in my day, pitcher threw complete games and hitters knew how to hit and blah, blah, blah.

smitty wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:The guy definitely has a point

Baseball's biggest problem isn't strikeouts or analytics or pace of play.

It's curmudgeonly broadcasters that piss on the current game and players. You know what's a bad way to sell a product to young fans? Screaming "get off my lawn!" every night.

Though I would add that's it's not a great selling point to veteran fans either to insist constantly that the game has gone downhill.

The Reds announcer guys are bad that way.

Back in my day, pitcher threw complete games and hitters knew how to hit and blah, blah, blah.

Is this the dope that said the Phillies had completed a trade for Machado?

swishnicholson wrote:The guy definitely has a point

Baseball's biggest problem isn't strikeouts or analytics or pace of play.

It's curmudgeonly broadcasters that piss on the current game and players. You know what's a bad way to sell a product to young fans? Screaming "get off my lawn!" every night.

Though I would add that's it's not a great selling point to veteran fans either to insist constantly that the game has gone downhill.

As if on cue: Barves broadcasters call Chase Utley 'unprofessional"

Maybe click the link next time, Buck.

They def ripped Utley and the Dodgers. What’s the matter here

I totally assumed that link was a full article on the topic

The one that’s posted now is. Did you edit or something?

Bucky didn’t realize that the link he posted was about the same story that swish posted.

Chelsea Janes @chelsea_janes
A few of Trea Turner’s tweets from 2011 and 2012 resurfaced today. They include racially insensitive language and homophobic slurs. The Nationals are aware of this, and are gathering information.

I hope the Phillies have meticulously combed/deleted the inappropriate social media history of every non-Tommy Hunter person on the team

jerseyhoya wrote:

Chelsea Janes @chelsea_janes
A few of Trea Turner’s tweets from 2011 and 2012 resurfaced today. They include racially insensitive language and homophobic slurs. The Nationals are aware of this, and are gathering information.

I hope the Phillies have meticulously combed/deleted the inappropriate social media history of every non-Tommy Hunter person on the team

If I am a sports agent, I hire an intern to review all tweets of all my athletes. This is not that hard... Someone just has to care.

At least just run keyword searches

Werthless wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Chelsea Janes @chelsea_janes
A few of Trea Turner’s tweets from 2011 and 2012 resurfaced today. They include racially insensitive language and homophobic slurs. The Nationals are aware of this, and are gathering information.

I hope the Phillies have meticulously combed/deleted the inappropriate social media history of every non-Tommy Hunter person on the team

If I am a sports agent, I hire an intern to review all tweets of all my athletes. This is not that hard... Someone just has to care.

sports agent? Heck, chief of staff doesn't even do that....

If you're a prominent athlete, don't use Twitter.

TenuredVulture wrote:don't use Twitter.

FYP

then i would never know where my socks are

TenuredVulture wrote:If you're a prominent athlete, don't use Twitter.

One of the reasons for the Facebook stock tumbling last week was this pursuit of prominent people on social media. People will take TV's advice and stay off of social media, thus reducing the traffic looking for that kind of entertainment. The long-term future outlook of Facebook (especially) and twitter isn't good.

pacino wrote:then i would never know where my socks are

but what about your towel

According to the preliminary 2019 schedule, the Rays are visiting San Francisco for the first time in 17 years and visiting San Diego for the first time in 15 years, the Rockies are visiting Tampa Bay for the first time in 15 years, and the Giants are visiting Baltimore for the first time in 15 years. Not confirmed yet but it also looks like the Yankees will be visiting San Francisco for the first time in 12 years

is there a preliminary Phillies schedule out?