Whoa. Hot take.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

This girl gets it.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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They are home way more than my husband is, they get paid way more than my husband does, and their job is way easier than my husband's job. Baseball is boring as fuck about 95%+ of the time.

You're not wrong

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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I'm rarely wrong, but I'm not right most of the time.

would "planet of the IMUs" be a better episode of star trek or the twilight zone? maybe we can even go with "black mirror" if you wanna be hip/now/looking-into-the-future?

"night of the posting IMU" = coming soon to a theatre near you! no children or adults under 6'1" will be admitted =P

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hahahah well said! i think i'm ready to take the plunge and "level up" to having my first ever spaulding sigquote!

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I ain't often right but I've never been wrong.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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- Henry George

I don't look like that. I feel misrepresented.

no doubt if you went "all out" with a 'stache you'd send that dude back to style school =P

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I think playoff baseball is fun as hell but i cant pay attention to the other 162 games. I think in football or even basketball when two heavyweights go at it during the middle of the season you get amped up but it's hard to feel that way (for me again) in like June when it's the cubs and dodgers or whatever. It's like yeah this is cool but we've still got two or three long ass months left. I don't know. Maybe I've got ADD.

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you know what it is? during the regular season baseball is some kind of a war of attrition; players who fail to get a hit ~70% of the time are still technically .300 hitters and all kinds of !!!, and then if you don't have some kind of a perpetual anchor-of-interest like, say, a fantasy baseball empire to oversee (read: all those day-to-day stats matter to you) then i can see how it's easy to get lose throughout the course of so many disposable games where like, you know, yeah you always try to win but in the end it's like "man we still have 50-100+ games to go so WGAF about today/tonight? we'll get 'em tomorrow!"

but then when the playoffs come around the # of games is suddenly limited to 1/5/7 (altho i still strain to call the newschool WC play-in game "the playoffs" as opposed to my preferred "mandatory game 163") and thus now every at bat becomes that much more !!!/of-paramount-importance, and you find yourself slowing down (along with the pace of the game, especially if it's an OBP-heavy team like the cubs or traditionally like the bosox/yankees) because now all of a sudden disposability is out the window due to the finite nature of the playoffs, and thus every pitch/at-bat/opportunity is that much more !!!!!!!!!!!!! than it was for the last 6+ months of the season.

TLDR = playoff baseball and regular season baseball are two differently animals because the "marathon" of 162 games = there's so much innate disposability with all of these little moves and ideas when you know that you've got a metric shit-ton of games left, however come playoff time all those little moves and ideas = HUGELY IMPORTANT AND THEREFORE SLOWED DOWN TO A PRESSURE-PACKED MOMENT (that joe buck is in the process of moutning like a sexual conquest because he's on a mission from god to end up with a legendary call akin to his dad's "GO CRAZY FOLKS! GO CRAZY!" =) --- so yeah basically playoff baseball = the shit if you're into the gradual buildup of some kind of enormous pressure that will instantly be allievated or doubled/tripled/quadrupled with each and every pitch

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This girl gets it.

Baseball is a nice day on the park in person.

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All it has is television ratings. And there are many reasons for that outside of popularity.

People masturbate more than they have sex. Do you also think jerking off reigns in popularity over fucking?

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The fact that football only existed on Sunday and for a limited number of games made it seem "popular". You see now that they have games on other nights, it's taken the shine off of it. It's not EVENT SUNDAY, Spaulding make the chili, FavreFan is bringing a sixer of Spotted Cow, and leash is firing up the smoker anymore. It's just a game that I can watch many days of the week. Just like baseball. Except it gets a boost because people like to be outside doing many different things during baseball season.

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It has more than tv ratings.

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Like what? Less people go to the games. Of course, you'll say that's because there are less games, which is exactly why football has bigger TV ratings.

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Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.

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Average capacity filled.

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Thursday Night Football is especially bleak when you put it this way. Never mind that the games suck, but where's Spaulding's chili?

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What reasons? And the reasons can't just be you making up your own definition of popularity.

To your second point, I don't even know if it's true, but if it is, it'd be because many people literally don't have the option to have sex (mostly married people). That's a poor comparison.

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This girl gets it.

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- Henry George

Perhaps... but that doesn't make it any less popular. If it weren't for gambling, sports like horse racing wouldn't even exist.

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I fail to see how that makes it "unpopular."

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If only you could gamble on baseball maybe it would be more popular. Baseball should start having fantasy leagues.

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That's not true either. I would think a guy from Central Illinois would know that almost every county has a fair with non-betting races.

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Fantasy leagues were invented in baseball. They were too complex for football fans.

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So people were gambling on baseball before football?

Also what do you think about the fact that nfl stadiums are filled at much higher capacities and by capacity percentage?

I'd say filling stadiums like that makes a good case they are more popular. Lots of empty seats in baseball.

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There are only eight NFL games per season.

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