Mr. Ed-EJWTX64

Navy Submarine Service Veteran/retired Reservist, Houston grad; Foodservice Professional from NYC. Live in Texas. Yankees, Islanders, Dolphins, UH Cougars fan.

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Vegas fans: "Nice we have a four goal lead headed into the third period"

Vegas:

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@MattDonaldson15 @Keeshan26284093 It all started with Punch Imlach trading Lanny McDonald to piss of Darryl Sittler and dismantling a really good team.

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@Keeshan26284093 Mitchie 2 - Keeshan Dave 1

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@elonmusk That’s okay AI is replacing programmers from Jndia.

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@Keeshan26284093 Mitch-Peat!

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@Keeshan26284093 Mitchie Comes Through!!! Can he be Conn Smythe Mitch Marner?

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@Keeshan26284093 Mitch Marner baby!!!!

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@elonmusk Good. Less mouths to feed, less people trashing the environment. Just build more robots to do things.

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As a Houston grad, I want Houston and the B12 to be successful. But this bill’s attempt to try to screw/control the B1G and SEC is garbage. This is America, a capitalist society, survival of the fittest. If the B1G & SEC want to invite top ACC and B12 schools and expand to 20 or 24 teams, so be it.

If you want to push for something, suggest pushing the NCAA to divide FBS into 3 divisions. FBS Div 1 - B1G & SEC; FBs Div 2 - B12 $ ACC; FBS Div 3: G6. Each division have their own 12-16 Team CFP. CFP where combining media deal makes sense.

If you want to push a bill that benefits athletes, go with 6 years for 6 years eligibility starting as early as 18 years and as late as 19. No waivers for any reason. Allow for 2 transfers in 6 year eligibility period. Transfers allowed every 2 years unless the head coach leaves. This cover athletes who start in JUCO or lower divisions to develop and move up. It also helps athletes who go on religious missions or hockey players who typically don’t make it to college until 20 or 21 after playing junior hockey.

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@Keeshan26284093 Yup

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@BrodieBz This is an important angle for teams that lost MLB teams to relocation to get a team back

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@NPDSclips David, enjoyed your video about the history of MLB labor relations. As a kid I remember Andy Messerschmidt and Catfish Hunter.

Let’s assume the players and owners agree on a salary cap and floor and in theory more teams have an opportunity to win, it doesn’t mean that the game will be better.

Saber metrics has changed the game where putting the ball in play is not as valuable as drawing a walk. We have very few .300 hitters, rarely see a hit & run, pitchers don’t compete games anymore, base stealing has become a lost art, even with bigger bases and limited pitcher throws to bases.

Is there a chance baseball could collectively bargain changes “for the good of the game?” What I mean is, what if each team is required to send MLB $3M each year and the $90M collected could be given out to up to 10 players who bat over .300 for the season? We want to see more. All in play. Obviously the top 2 or 3 would proportionately get a bigger slice of the kitty, but player #10 still would get some more money.

I would like to see this not only for batting over .300 but for most stolen bases and for most hits in a season.

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@ImmaculateView Bear new helmet?

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@ImmaculateView Doesn’t really matter since the Bear mostly play games on Sundays and only once a week? The Hammond site appears to not be an attractive site.

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@ChrisVannini They want to go where the rich people are living and have space to build an arena and a mixed use development (Braves “Battery”) to make more money.

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@ImmaculateView If Jim were still around he soon be singing “Bears Home In Indiana?

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@Keeshan26284093 Did you read that Matthew Knies was going to be traded to the Habs during the recent in season trading deadline? Apparently Trevling and Hughes submitted the trade to the league at 3:01, 1 minute too late.

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I grew up in NYC in the 80’s first following the Mets (remember Kiners Korner) until Tom Terrific was traded for a bag of beans and I started following the Yankees. Loved the Huckleberries in the Yankee booth. The game today, other than a few handful of players is garbage. Starting pitching is a joke, only a handful of .300 hitter, hit & run is extinct, stolen bases is a dying art and launch angle and exit velocity have become as important in a tv telecast as a team winning.

I would make the following changes:

a. Starting pitchers have to go 6 complete innings for a win.

b. Reduce the number of pitchers on the roster from 13 to 11 for the 1st 2 month of the season. Then 3rd, 4th & 5th month allow 13 pitchers and in September allow 13.
c. Move the rubber back 2 feet so the distance is 62’ 6”. That way if a pitcher try’s to throw 100 mph is going to be a lost slower by the time it reaches the plate. Force more pitchers to focus on ball movement, off speed pitches and curve balls.

d. I would push all the fences back at least 10 feet and power alleys by 20 ft. If they team doesn’t want to push the walls back, then raise them so it the equivalent distance. I would put angles on higher fences so that more ball carrom away from fielder and we get more triples and inside-the-ballpark home runs. I would extend corners, especially in left field to increase triples.

e. If a. Starter is taken out, the team loses the DH (double hook) and the manager is not allowed to do a double switch.

f. Umpires would get a signal from the ABS system when a ball is a strike. They then can announce the strike.

g. No ghost runner in the 10th & 11th inning.
12th inning ghost runner on 2nd. 13th ghost runner on 3rd base.

h. There need to be “good of the game” financial incentives funds paid by teams. Every team would have to give $4M to a pool to reward leagues top 10 .300 hitters. At the end of the year the top 2 players with the highest batting averages get $20M each. Then the remaining $90M amount is divided by the next 8 .300 hitters. The same could be done for top base base stealers.