Blue Jays’ Kevin Gausman Takes Aim at MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Over Pitcher Marketing Comments – SportingTribe
December 18, 2024
Blue Jays’ Kevin Gausman Takes Aim at MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Over Pitcher Marketing Comments – SportingTribe
6 comments
How can you not love Gausman?
That’s our Wizard of Gaus, baby!
Keep firing those shots!
My issue with comments like these are that if you’re resistant to change, you’re going to have to accept the size of the salaries are going to decline year over year. The players don’t tend to be accepting of smaller salaries (understandably), so it really ends up looking like a bunch of spoiled rich guys expecting the league to wave a magic wand and fix all of the sport’s issues without changing anything themselves.
Clearly some things will need to change to avoid revenues collapsing since the emerging adult demographics have significantly shorter attention spans than has historically been relied upon to sell professional baseball as a spectator event, and there are never any other ideas of what would be a better path proposed that I can ever recall seeing. Those of us who are excited to watch a 3 hour baseball game most nights after our work days are done are a dying breed as much as it pains me personally to say that.
“They continue to believe that the focus on velocity and spin rate is a significant cause in the increase in injuries.”
They go on to confirm that water, is in fact, wet
I think baseball is one of those games that’s at it’s finest with the simplest rules possible.
I like the pitch clock, conceptually, bigger bases are safer, but I dislike most changes that have taken place recently otherwise
Remember when people were absolutely beside themselves because Beeston didn’t have Manfred as his pick for commissioner?
6 comments
How can you not love Gausman?
That’s our Wizard of Gaus, baby!
Keep firing those shots!
My issue with comments like these are that if you’re resistant to change, you’re going to have to accept the size of the salaries are going to decline year over year. The players don’t tend to be accepting of smaller salaries (understandably), so it really ends up looking like a bunch of spoiled rich guys expecting the league to wave a magic wand and fix all of the sport’s issues without changing anything themselves.
Clearly some things will need to change to avoid revenues collapsing since the emerging adult demographics have significantly shorter attention spans than has historically been relied upon to sell professional baseball as a spectator event, and there are never any other ideas of what would be a better path proposed that I can ever recall seeing. Those of us who are excited to watch a 3 hour baseball game most nights after our work days are done are a dying breed as much as it pains me personally to say that.
“They continue to believe that the focus on velocity and spin rate is a significant cause in the increase in injuries.”
They go on to confirm that water, is in fact, wet
I think baseball is one of those games that’s at it’s finest with the simplest rules possible.
I like the pitch clock, conceptually, bigger bases are safer, but I dislike most changes that have taken place recently otherwise
Remember when people were absolutely beside themselves because Beeston didn’t have Manfred as his pick for commissioner?