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2024 Braves

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    donniemdonniem Posts: 5,629 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    This team has some depth. Not bad for a "back-up" catcher I'd say. Plus some awfully good games from the "bottom" of the pitching staff as well.

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    BumBum Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    According to his teammates…it’s a little d….but a big stick

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    philipsmith99philipsmith99 Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Does anyone understand MLB's out of market blackout system. I have YouTube tv that does not carry MLB network, no problem,I have MLB network and Apple tv thru my T-Mobile phone. Last week braves were broadcast on TBS, a road game blacked out. Friday night Braves on appletv home, not blacked out. Tonight on ESPN, not blacked out.

    Hummm?

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    MarkBoknechtMarkBoknecht Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited April 22

    Yeah, I had the same problem with my Dish TV service. Blacked out home games on TBS and MLB channel, but broadcasting the game on ESPN.

    Thanks to Bally Sports owning the broadcast rights and presumably, ESPN paying a fee to Bally or does ESPN own the rights to broadcast Sunday night games via contract with Major League Baseball?

    Is this the MLB channel and TBS telling Bally to go shovel it?

    Edit: At second glance, it makes sense that teams would blackout home games, especially if the games are not sold out. In the past, teams would broadcast home games in the local market, if the game was sold out. As I recall it.

    But to Phillip Smith's point, blacking out 'away games" makes no sense. What revenue are the Braves losing by TBS or MLB broadcasting the game? I guess it's Bally exercising their exclusive broadcasting rights.

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    BEACHDAWGBEACHDAWG Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Bally is so close to being "used to be," its not even funny. They focused all their programming to shock jock stuff and have no market share. They lose money on all their sports show.

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    MarkBoknechtMarkBoknecht Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited April 23

    Good win against the Marlins 3-0. But it's the Marlins. They've only won 6 games. But they could be worse. The Rockies have just 5 wins and the pitiful White Sox have just 3 wins. Looking like disaster for Chicago's South Siders.

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    MarkBoknechtMarkBoknecht Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out how Acuna scored the winning run in the bottom of the 10th after making the last out in the bottom of the ninth? Is there some obscure rule about extras that allows a leadoff hitter to bat again after making the last out in regulation?

    And apparently Acuna was at second base when Harris II hit the walk off double. How did Acuna get to second base? Hit a double? No, he was 0 for 3. Walk and a steal? No, he had 1 stolen base in the first inning. Walk and an error? No, the Marlins didn't commit any errors. I dont get it.

    Had the game been televised, I could have figured this out, but coverage by the MLB channel was blacked out. Again.

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    senorlorenzosenorlorenzo Posts: 393 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    You’re a little behind the times. Starting either last year or the year before, extra innings begin with a runner at second, which is the player making the last out from the previous ending.

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    MarkBoknechtMarkBoknecht Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Thanks for the explanation. I am behind the times.

    I guess that helps support one of baseball's objectives: to shorten the games.

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    RomeDawg288RomeDawg288 Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
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    BEACHDAWGBEACHDAWG Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I've seen people begging all over the world for many reasons

    These MLB umpires are begging for an electronic strike zone as hard as any begging I've ever seen.

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    MarkBoknechtMarkBoknecht Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    From what I've seen, the umpires almost always get the calls right. Sometimes the low and outside balls graze the strike zone and they still call it a strike. If it's the home team, the fans and teammates might express disapproval, but the umpires still got it right.

    The majority of missed calls imo are balls high in the strike zone that are strikes, but are called balls. Especially high and Inside. But very seldom are calls missed.

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    BEACHDAWGBEACHDAWG Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    It's 2024,, put in the electronic strike zone, let the umps call the game and give each team 5 challenges

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    BEACHDAWGBEACHDAWG Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
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    MarkBoknechtMarkBoknecht Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited April 29

    No apology necessary. I appreciate your response. Everyone's response.

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