What changes in Mlb baseball bothers you the most?

Question

For me is the following 1)The way teams have sold out to coporate groups 2) Where they have gone out of hand with the stupid pitch count 3) Celebrity involvement 4) Useless announcers who care more about what celebrity is at the game instead of calling the game itself & announcers who are clueless.

Answer 1

I really can't stand the pitch count being mentioned after every freakin pitch and then when they hit 100, it is like some magic number where they have to stop throwing. Matsuzaka pitches sometimes into the 110's and that is low for him. In Japan they don't concentrate on pitch count like that. They judge the pitcher by HOW he is throwing not HOW MANY he has thrown.
I also hate how much tickets and everything to eat cost at the games now. It is ridiculous to try to take a family of 4 to a game. We went to Fenway last week and for 4 hot dogs and 4 sodas (2 were regular,2 were in special souvenir cups) it was $35.00! Good thing we weren't starving!

Answer 2

I think what bothers me most about MLB right now is not necessarily the changes, but it's lack of change in other areas. For instance, why has a salary cap not been put in to place? Why have they not made a decision, after 34 years, one way or the other about the DH ? The fact that the NL and AL have 2 different rules is as ridiculous as perhaps the Western Conference in the NBA having the 3-point basket, but the Eastern Conference not having it. I would also favor a realignment of the leagues, setting them up solely by location. Let teams that have a geographic rivalry, such as the Mets and Yankees or the Cubs and White Sox play more then 6 times a year, and let those games actually mean something other then bragging rights. In addition, the All-Star game has become almost a joke - do away with the HR derby, most of the best hitters take a pass anyway, and the idea of having to have each team represented is very silly due to the fact that there are now 16 NL teams and 14 AL teams.
The problems with baseball right now are almost too numerous to mention, but for some reason, once the game starts, I tend to leave all that behind.

Answer 3

I think that one of the things that bothers me the most is having home-field advantage in the World Series determined by the All-Star Game. If the All-Star Game is an exhibition game, then why does it matter so much? If it's a competitive effort, then why do players from every team have to be chosen?

Probably the most bothersome thing for me is the high ticket prices. High ticket prices are making the game harder and harder for families to enjoy, especially in the historic parks like Fenway and Wrigley, where it is easily more than $50 per ticket to get in, and tickets are only available from third parties. If scalping is illegal, then I have no idea why it is legal for a ticket broker to buy up thousands of tickets and then sell them for higher prices.

Answer 4

Chipmaker's got a great one; FOX trying to make baseball like football is really annoying. And Joe Buck has to be the worst sportscaster personality this side of Joe Theisman.

For me its mostly your number one. I hate how the park names change every 2 or 3 years.

Stupid pitch counts is another good one. Worthless inter-league match-ups bother me too.

I do love a lot of what's going on in baseball so it's not all bad. I don't want to pile on the sport.

Answer 5

Bud Selig.
Everything that Bud Selig gets involved with becomes a royal screw-up: interleague play, realignment, all star game determining WS home games. Let's not forget that he was a hawk, pushing for lockouts in 81 and 94. In the early 70s, he pushed for the DH. Before 1976, the players were ready to agree to a much more limited version of free agency, but Selig led the owners who opposed any sort of free agency. In 1981, the players would have been amenable to a cap, but Selig led the hawks who opposed offering any concessions. The players won all the court challenges and labor actions; now they have no incentive to agree to a cap that would help the small market teams, like Selig's beloved Brewers.
Selig is a real-life Gilligan, who continuously snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. It is incomprehensible to me how he keeps the support from the owners.

Answer 6

Fox's broadcast game productions. Lousy (terrible even) shot selection, annoying to idiotic announcers, more interested in player personalities (rather, perceptions thereof) than the actual game ongoing, extreme closeups (count the whiskers, kids!), laser-blast sound effects for EVERYTHING, and a perverse fixation on minor celebs (who invariably are starring on some new Fox show, coming this fall!) who are obviously planted in the stands. And there's more. Other than the fact that there is, in there somewhere, a real baseball game, I cannot think of any truly positive aspects to a Fox gamecast.

Fox is nigh-unwatchable.

Answer 7

when the keep on talking about the pitch count and yes i agree with number 4 i don't really like the announcers for fox baseball

Answer 8

I hate the media and how they portray some players, it's sick and it's get old fast.Pitch count, could not agree more.There is no sense leaving a starter in the game for more then 110 pitches.Joe Buck, need I say more.{In reference to number 4}

Answer 9

Having the allstar game determine the World Series home field advantage

Answer 10

I hate how the hometown broadcast people sound like they are rooting against your team because they get so pumped up over an opposing teams homerun, for example!