Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

by **swishnicholson** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 14:49:41

The reports that ESPN is interested in televising the KBO are very sketchy at this point. But I'd be there.

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ESPN apparently is talking with the KBO to broadcast S Korean baseball games in the US.

Korean baseball fans' reactions generally have been: "Good, now Americans can learn to hate my team too."

by **Ace Rothstein** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 14:56:14

swishnicholson wrote:The reports that ESPN is interested in televising the KBO are very sketchy at this point. But I'd be there.

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ESPN apparently is talking with the KBO to broadcast S Korean baseball games in the US.

Korean baseball fans' reactions generally have been: "Good, now Americans can learn to hate my team too."

Something to bet on at 5am

by **thephan** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 15:02:52

I bought some baseball card the other day just to feel alive

by **thephan** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 15:04:11

The Dude wrote:They agreed to a deal that pays them a small amount of money but the service time counts

I wonder how the rookies will be treated. I guess there aren't any, so pretty much the general plan to deal with minor league players.

by **momadance** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 21:18:14

If MLB can play even a half season, they could really capitalize on this. The nation will be desperate for sports content. Once again, the only constant in this country will be baseball.

by **Rockinghorse** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 07:05:20

I think I read Korea wants to start exhibition games next Tuesday, regular season TBD in early May. They're 13 hours ahead of us, so night games would be starting around 6 am for us, day games would be midnight or later over here. Sounds like the government hasn't officially approved it but they are supposed to issue updated social guidelines this week.

They also had a major election yesterday with 63 percent turnout (almost entirely in-person voting) :shock:

by **Ace Rothstein** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 07:43:49

I’m watching a Chinese pro baseball league game now online, the broadcast is in English, Broadcasters HR call is Whammy!!! 1 of the homers featured a solid bat flip that caught me off guard

There’s some cutout fake fans in the seats and a robot band playing tunes

by **swishnicholson** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 13:35:24

Ace Rothstein wrote:I’m watching a Chinese pro baseball league game now online, the broadcast is in English, Broadcasters HR call is Whammy!!! 1 of the homers featured a solid bat flip that caught me off guard

There’s some cutout fake fans in the seats and a robot band playing tunes

KBO is great for bat flips ( I would suggest t you turn off the dreadful music in the video though):

by **Eem** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 14:09:19

If they have to play games with no fans here, I hope they have a sound guy at the home ballparks who appropriately pumps in super loud crowd noise at key times in the game

by **CalvinBall** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 14:25:00

i am hoping for fanless games tbh. would be a hilarious thing to live through.

by **Ace Rothstein** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 14:26:09

Eem wrote:If they have to play games with no fans here, I hope they have a sound guy at the home ballparks who appropriately pumps in super loud crowd noise at key times in the game

Home team batters were getting music played through their ABs, plus the mascot and dance team or whatever the girls are called were chanting and dancing through the AB

Swish - yeah I didn’t know it was a big thing to do bat flips over seas, I was watching it on Twitter and a couple people in the chat function told me that it’s a common thing

by **Slowhand** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 14:30:40

CalvinBall wrote:i am hoping for fanless games tbh. would be a hilarious thing to live through.

There was an MLB game a few years ago where they played in front of no fans. Pretty sure it was in Baltimore. I can't remember the reason why they had to do it. It was pretty neat, you could really hear the crack of the bat and pop of the catcher's mitt.

by **Eem** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 14:31:06

Slowhand wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:i am hoping for fanless games tbh. would be a hilarious thing to live through.

There was an MLB game a few years ago where they played in front of no fans. Pretty sure it was in Baltimore. I can't remember the reason why they had to do it. It was pretty neat, you could really hear the crack of the bat and pop of the catcher's mitt.

I think it was the Freddie Gray protests

by **CalvinBall** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 14:54:38

oh yeah, i remember that! was so strange. imagine weeks of that!

by **ReadingPhilly** » Thu Apr 16, 2020 20:04:02

joe kelly should prob ditch the change up whenever baseball is back.

https://twitter.com/allie_g18/status/12 ... 00737?s=21

by **Stay_Disappointed** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:36:53

Slowhand wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:i am hoping for fanless games tbh. would be a hilarious thing to live through.

There was an MLB game a few years ago where they played in front of no fans. Pretty sure it was in Baltimore. I can't remember the reason why they had to do it. It was pretty neat, you could really hear the crack of the bat and pop of the catcher's mitt.

Some hockey dude was on last night talking about pumping noise in for NHL games. Not sure what kind of noise though.

I wonder if there is a way to create an audio version of Zoom where 30 thousand fans can contribute to stadium loudspeakers.

by **Monkeyboy** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 03:48:13

That might be your million dollar idea. You might even be able to charge fans, including charging more to be pumped from speakers close to the field. 1000 fans could get piped through each set of speakers. Set up 40 or 50 sets of speakers that can handle 1000 fans each and you're in business. You would just need to make the software. It would probably just mean tweaking existing stuff. We would just need a clever name for the BSG software company.

Someone get on that.

I will pay $100 to support the development of the software and pitching the idea to MLB. Surely we have programmers that can handle this here.

by **Ace Rothstein** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 05:24:10

Ol’ pal Lisalverto Bonilla pitching for the Rakuten Monkeys today

by **Rockinghorse** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 07:36:05

Korea greenlit baseball to begin exhibitions this week, regular season in May with no fans

by **MoBettle** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 23:08:34

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb- ... 20-season/

With the spread of the novel coronavirus threatening Major League Baseball's 2020 season, the league and the union continue to seek ways to salvage the year as best they can. Predictably, that has entailed any number of proposals and contingency plans, including those that would see teams either all isolated in Arizona, or split between Arizona and Florida.

On Monday, multiple league sources informed CBS Sports about a different idea that has been discussed in recent days. In this arrangement, the league would have teams stationed in one of three hubs: Florida, Arizona or Texas. The clubs would then make use of the local major- and minor-league (or spring training) facilities.

One source even expressed guarded optimism about the idea's chances of coming to fruition.

Ballparks in St. Petersburg (Florida), Phoenix (Arizona), and Arlington (Texas) each have roofs, retractable or otherwise, that would safeguard against rainouts and other extreme weather, allowing for multiple games to be hosted at those sites per day. Theoretically, MLB could also ask teams stationed in Florida and Texas to drive three-plus hours to other MLB parks (Houston's Minute Maid Park and Miami's Marlins Park).

It's unclear if MLB would assign 10 teams to each metropolitan area, or if it would opt for an unbalanced approach that would see 12 teams in one area and eight in another.

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