Search
Search
Sign on Options
Theme: [Light Selected] To Dark»
Forums › Baseball Games Discussion Forum › How can baseball return to it's glory da ...

Greetings Genre fans! You have entered a GameSpot game board dedicated to a specific genre.

- Follow the Terms of Use
- Conceal all plot spoilers or label discussion with spoiler alert.
- Discussions with the intent to disrupt the experience of the board will be considered a forum invasion.

How can baseball return to it's glory days?

Forum Actions
New Message
  • Monsarratzz
     
    Level 3
    Mediator
    Posts: 6
    Apr 20, 2012 7:59 pm GMT
    Over the years, the game of baseball has watched as its once avid fans have shifted their love of the professional sports world, over to newer leagues such as the NFL and NBA. But one thing that has stayed a constant is the love that the true fans have for this game.

    Let's face it at first glance baseball isn't the most physically appealing sport on the planet. But for those who truly understand the intensity that a nine-inning ballgame holds, it is the greatest game ever invented by the mortal mind. Sure, football has the hard hits and basketball has the flashy dunks that make the fans go wild. But baseball, baseball is a whole lot more than that. Baseball is filled with history, anticipation, and a sense that all that was once, could be again (Terrance Man).

    What can baseball do to return to the game to it's glory days? To make baseball America's pastime once again...



    Related link you may be interested: http://www.tradecheapjerseys.com/nhl-jerseys-boston-bruins-jersey_c267
    Over the years, the game of baseball has watched as its once avid fans have shifted their love of the professional sports world, over to newer leagues such as the NFL and NBA. But one thing that has stayed a constant is the love that the true fans have for this game. Let's face it at first glance baseball isn't the most physically appealing sport on the planet. But for those who truly understand the intensity that a nine-inning ballgame holds, it is the greatest game ever invented by the mortal mind. Sure, football has the hard hits and basketball has the flashy dunks that make the fans go wild. But baseball, baseball is a whole lot more than that. Baseball is filled with history, anticipation, and a sense that all that was once, could be again (Terrance Man). What can baseball do to return to the game to it's glory days? To make baseball America's pastime once again... Related link you may be interested: http://www.tradecheapjerseys.com/nhl-jerseys-boston-bruins-jersey_c267
    Report Abuse
  • DeViLzzz
     
    Level 28
    Bionic Commando
    Posts: 2058
    User is Online
    Apr 21, 2012 10:43 pm GMT

    Clean up the game and do regular testing so we know players are not on the juice.

    Clean up the game and do regular testing so we know players are not on the juice.

    Report Abuse
  • cpl_trim
     
    Level 2
    Journeyman
    Posts: 1
    Apr 27, 2012 6:46 pm GMT
    Money has diminished baseball from a couple of standpoints. First, teams like the Yankees can make up deficiences in scouting or bad free agent moves by buying their way into the playoffs every year. Whereas if you're a fan of the Pirates, your team has no shot from Day 1. Secondly, free agency. I'm not suggesting to turn back the clock to the days when players were serfs for the owners, but the excessive player movement in search of top $$ is equally bad for the fans. Given the strength of the player's union and a stooge like Bud Selig as commissioner, this probably won't be solved until it reaches a crisis.

    One thing that can be fixed: SPEED UP THE GAME. Check any box score from 100 years ago, the average 9 inning game took 90 minutes - 2 hours. Today's slack pace has killed off interest amongst potential new fans. Sure the use of pitchers has changed, but a lot of that's on the managers, trying to control every game like it's Game 7 of the World Series. Put a cap on it, like the coaches' challenge in the NFL. Change all the pitchers you want between innings, but not play righty-lefty-righty moves for every batter. Don't grant the hitters time to keep stepping out of the box except for getting the sign or things like swirling dust or blowing hot dog wrappers. Same for the pitchers, institute a 20 second pitch clock (at least with nobody on base). Limit their throws over to hold runners. Just point to 1st to grant the intentional pass vs. throwing 4 obvious balls to get it done....Tighten up the action and the fans will come back.
    Money has diminished baseball from a couple of standpoints. First, teams like the Yankees can make up deficiences in scouting or bad free agent moves by buying their way into the playoffs every year. Whereas if you're a fan of the Pirates, your team has no shot from Day 1. Secondly, free agency. I'm not suggesting to turn back the clock to the days when players were serfs for the owners, but the excessive player movement in search of top $$ is equally bad for the fans. Given the strength of the player's union and a stooge like Bud Selig as commissioner, this probably won't be solved until it reaches a crisis. One thing that can be fixed: SPEED UP THE GAME. Check any box score from 100 years ago, the average 9 inning game took 90 minutes - 2 hours. Today's slack pace has killed off interest amongst potential new fans. Sure the use of pitchers has changed, but a lot of that's on the managers, trying to control every game like it's Game 7 of the World Series. Put a cap on it, like the coaches' challenge in the NFL. Change all the pitchers you want between innings, but not play righty-lefty-righty moves for every batter. Don't grant the hitters time to keep stepping out of the box except for getting the sign or things like swirling dust or blowing hot dog wrappers. Same for the pitchers, institute a 20 second pitch clock (at least with nobody on base). Limit their throws over to hold runners. Just point to 1st to grant the intentional pass vs. throwing 4 obvious balls to get it done....Tighten up the action and the fans will come back.
    Report Abuse
  • Generic_Dude
     
    Level 40
    Abobo
    Posts: 11826
    May 29, 2012 11:50 am GMT
    Be patient -- Bud Selig plans to step down in 2014 and he will harm our pastime no more.


    Blank friend requests will be ignored. Chain mailers will be deleted and blocked.

    Be patient -- Bud Selig plans to step down in 2014 and he will harm our pastime no more.
    Report Abuse
  • DonAddUp
     
    Level 9
    Ikari Warrior
    Posts: 1
    Feb 23, 2013 1:15 pm GMT

    To me, this is a no brainer. Baseball has for the past 20 years or so, tried to elevate the fanbase to NHL or NFL levels. Along with the ticket and concession prices! Baseball was so successful for so long because blue collar workers could afford to go. You sat in uncomfortable bleachers and ate crappy peanuts and stale popcorn. Now we have to have gourmet cuisine and wine. (Now I like the occassional bottle of wine, but do we need that at a baseball game?) Fans could take friends or family to games and leave their mortgage at home. The expensive mentality works in cities that constantly draw marquis players and play off results. But if your team is in no man's land like KC, or in a tough division without the money to get results like the Orioles (my home team), you're going to have a tough time getting butts in the stands. Now I realize two things. People need to work and you can't put toothpaste back in a tube, so drastically reducing prices isn't realistic. Markets are already somewhat adjusted to cost of living due to their geographic location, duh. But the owners of teams with empty high priced stadiums are going to have to realize that they will have to spend some money, find some partner investors, and take it on the chin for a bit and get the prices in line with a post (wallet smashing) recession country to make coming out more appealing to non CEO salaried fans. Now the NFL season is 16 games long with 1/2 of these away, so I can understand the "get it while the season is on" price structure. But when your season is 162 games long, you think you can tone the prices down a tic?! I know you can't give the profits away, but you better find a way to get it more in line with reality, or teams are going to start collapsing in the gap between player salary and attendance. My dad worked at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore as an usher (his second job) when I was a kid. He took me there all the time and let me roam the whole place and watch the game in any seat that was empty, overseen by friends (the other ushers) these are some of my favorite childhood memories. Howabout not charging me an arm and a leg to take my grandkids to a game? That's a start. That would make it more accessable to the young, who maybe the future players, or fans...........or neither.

    To me, this is a no brainer. Baseball has for the past 20 years or so, tried to elevate the fanbase to NHL or NFL levels. Along with the ticket and concession prices! Baseball was so successful for so long because blue collar workers could afford to go. You sat in uncomfortable bleachers and ate crappy peanuts and stale popcorn. Now we have to have gourmet cuisine and wine. (Now I like the occassional bottle of wine, but do we need that at a baseball game?) Fans could take friends or family to games and leave their mortgage at home. The expensive mentality works in cities that constantly draw marquis players and play off results. But if your team is in no man's land like KC, or in a tough division without the money to get results like the Orioles (my home team), you're going to have a tough time getting butts in the stands. Now I realize two things. People need to work and you can't put toothpaste back in a tube, so drastically reducing prices isn't realistic. Markets are already somewhat adjusted to cost of living due to their geographic location, duh. But the owners of teams with empty high priced stadiums are going to have to realize that they will have to spend some money, find some partner investors, and take it on the chin for a bit and get the prices in line with a post (wallet smashing) recession country to make coming out more appealing to non CEO salaried fans. Now the NFL season is 16 games long with 1/2 of these away, so I can understand the "get it while the season is on" price structure. But when your season is 162 games long, you think you can tone the prices down a tic?! I know you can't give the profits away, but you better find a way to get it more in line with reality, or teams are going to start collapsing in the gap between player salary and attendance. My dad worked at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore as an usher (his second job) when I was a kid. He took me there all the time and let me roam the whole place and watch the game in any seat that was empty, overseen by friends (the other ushers) these are some of my favorite childhood memories. Howabout not charging me an arm and a leg to take my grandkids to a game? That's a start. That would make it more accessable to the young, who maybe the future players, or fans...........or neither.

    Report Abuse
Forum Actions
New Message
Forums › Baseball Games Discussion Forum › How can baseball return to it's glory da ...