What is your Most Boomer MLB Opinion?

Thank you!

Sadly there’s too much money in whatever gradient monstrosity Nike trots out each year. “We took inspiration from the graffiti under this bridge that’s falling apart to create this year’s ASG jerseys…” Miss me with that shit. I want to see the duck and some orange and black on my guys out there.

They’re there representing my city, not the subtle influences of acid jazz on the city life of Milwaukee or whatever dumb crap they put on those explainer graphics.

The ALCS on FS1 makes me vomit every time

Why stop there? ALL games should be on broadcast TV (at least in their home market).

I still contend that the biggest advantage that keeps football as the top viewed sport is how simple it is to watch the games. It's over-the-air which also forces it to basic cable.

The moment I need an RSN or some other thing to buy, it moves to a niche product.

I mean even the NBA/NHL only have finals on TV. The only sport that bucks that trend is the NFL where there are way fewer games and single elimination.

This is a good one, either lower the wall or move it closer. If it isn’t out of the park it shouldn’t be an automatic homer

Could you imagine just adding a yellow line to the green monster?! It's part of the charm. Truthfully I wish there were more high walls in baseball.

Which stadiums currently allow this? Just curious because I don’t know off the top of my head

My man just said "Fuck Kyle Schwarber"

I never thought of it that way, but totally true

Agreed, there is nothing better than watching a master hitter like Arraez or Ichiro. I’ll watch that any day over some .200 40 home run guy

But what if all of Kyle Schwarber's 47 hits are home runs, though? Isn't that EXCITING?!

(It isn't)

Early career altuve was my favorite. Nothing like watching a guy bat .340

It's insane how much the old timers pitched. Lolich in 1971 started 45 games (4 man rotation) and pitched 376 innings. Over 8 innings per game, with 29 complete games in one year.

This would be my take, I love a good workhorse. I play OOTP this way.

Jamie Moyer, May 7 2010.

Last, best complete game ever.

The problem is, the Maddox type is one person

The biggest reason this wont change is players health. Pitchers are throwing harder and getting hurt more often. Despite that correlation its not like guys are gonna stop throwing 95+. Guys want to make it to the big leagues and to do that its more and more necessary to be able to sit upper 90’s. And when guys are consistently throwing that hard they cant throw 120+ pitches consistently. So were gonna get average starters capping at like 5 innings and the really good ones going 7-8 with a CG or two in a season. Eventually we might get just a stable of guys throwing 3-4 innings and no true starters/relievers

I keep saying that if the league is serious about not playing the World Series in November, they should schedule a doubleheader about once a month or so on a Sunday where the home team is still in town during the week and the away team has a short flight (and preferably no Monday game)

There's so many more things that can happen with balls in play and more men on base. Watching hitter after hitter strike out and walk back to the dugout is NOT exciting.

I thought the rule changes for the shift and bigger bags were a step in the right direction to incentivize more athletic play. 

It honestly shocks me how many people prefer the three true outcome form of baseball

Scheduling grift by MLB to put ny/bos games during the summer when the other sports are in their off seasons.

I'd maybe be okay with it if they implemented it in like the 13th inning instead of right away.

I’m fine with all the other new rules but this one just pisses me off for some reason

Probably not a boomer take, more of a millennial take, but I thought 10 was perfect with a single game wildcard in each league.

Partially because I loved the single game WC, and partially because it created a real advantage for the division winners with the WC teams having to pitch their ace and probably best bullpen arms a couple days before the DS started

Wild that a fan of an ALE team would post this. I feel the polar opposite

Love this. I miss the days of seeing PIT PIT PIT CIN CIN CIN PIT PIT PIT PIT MIL MIL MIL and then getting excited seeing COL COL COL LAD LAD LAD…

They forgot that familiarity breeds contempt.

(yeah, I know they still play individual division opponents more than others)

Fully agree. It’s crazy the Yankees have played the entire west coast and not the Red Sox yet before June

Yeah totally agree. Sorry White Sox and Royals fans, I’m just not super jazzed to see my team play you guys at the expense of more division games. Playing every team is dumb.

Now we're cooking with gas

It was a cool gimmick for the All Star Game. However, it should not be done during an actual game.

What's so annoying about interviewing players is that it's almost nothing ever anything of substance, no matter when you interview them, because they just say stuff like "we need to play better" and "not the result you want but we'll go back out tomorrow and give it our all" and other generic shit.

They're almost never good enough to exist period, much less while that player is trying to play the game he's paid to play.

From what I've seen on Reddit, this is not a Boomer take at all. Edit: Not exclusively a Boomer take that is

Wainwright and Zambrano

We will always have the BART bomb and the best bobble head of all time. 

Woodruff off Kershaw in the playoffs is one of the best moments ever!

Honestly, man, there are always so many annoying kids at Dodger Stadium batting practice constantly yelling shit like "rock paper scissors for a ball" I just want to have my chance at a BP homeruns but I have to be able to allow my ears to bleed to so so. And I only go to like 1 game a year, lmao. And it still makes me cringe.

I think it was perfect with 2 wild card teams because 1/3 were in and 2/3 were out. I was honestly relieved when the Mariners were the #2 wild card team in 22 because it meant we didn't need a playoff expansion to end the drought. Well, we didn't need another playoff expansion.

Rain I can live with, but watching games when it's 100 degrees out is ass.

People that gave the Rangers crap for building a new stadium so soon have not sat at a game outside in Texas in June. A roof of some sort is a requirement down here.

Yeah, indoor stadiums are just way worse for watching games at, at least in my experience

I’ve noticed fans of opposing teams rage when Coors has a rain or snow postponement in early spring. I always assume the fans that say Coors should have a roof have never visited the ballpark.

Edited for wordage

Found my boomer soulmate. Agree with every single thing on your list.

Dang that IS a boomer take. What would you have? Fan vote?

It’s not the Hall of Popularity. Fame refers to (or at least it did until recently) notability due to accomplishments.

Voters are told to vote based on “player's record, ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character and team contributions”

Stats are simply a way to measure the a player’s record, ability, and contributions.

The day they banned the DH is the day we lost the cold war

I 100% agree with the DJ noise take. Shit is out of control!

It's especially stupid when post-pitch they bring up the more accurate tracker anyway to be like "looks like it got a piece of the zone" just do that!

Also a lot of the time it’s not even accurate but fans react as if it’s 100% accurate to every player.

Ha-Seong Kim approves

Masterful Boomer opinion. 10/10. Alas I have but one upvote to give.

My only minor tweak is to have both one alternate and one throwback. Phillies have home pinstripes, road grays, alt creams, and throwback powder blues. That should be it. No reds, no city connect, no anything else

I'm fine with teams having as many alternates as they want, but any uniform that isn't in team colors should be banned. 

The Mets aren't purple, goddamnit.

I've been long dead on this hill. Home whites, road grays, very very very rare throwback. I hate watching games with one team in red tops and the other in blue tops. Looks like dogshit.

But the light shade of yellow in that new Twins gradient jersey represents the pride of the city. And the blue echoes the flow and passion from the Great Lakes.

Just point the gun right at my temple and fucking shoot me

If you really want to watch someone try to hit who can’t, you can just tune into a ChiSox game and watch Maldonado 

It's not really the DH so much, I just liked the idea that the two leagues had a slightly different ruleset, I wish there was some way they could bring back that tiny bit of asymmetry

The best part about the 4 pitch intentional walk was when it gave the home fans a solid 30 seconds to boo the opposing teams pitcher for cowardice. Sometimes the IBB is objectively the right move but you should always feel a bit of shame!

I think they are usually harmless and goofy but some are appallingly tacky, like the Tigers’s little Caesar’s themed prop (the owners of the team also own little Caesar’s).

Wait, you don’t love the clearly marketing generated little Caesar’s pizza celebration the Tigers have to put on after every homer?

Fucking Amen. Shit is so unbelievably cringe. Doesn’t hurt anything though and I don’t mention it at all unless it’s a thread like this for boomer takes.

I actually love these stats, its how I could tell by late-April that Vierling might be decent and Tork might be cooked.

The pants one is interesting. It feels like reverse-boomer boomer because the pants are MUCH longer now than they used to be

OMG I hate the new home run derby format, I really do miss the 10 out format