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Let’s have fun with The 7 Line’s Topps card customizer

So the t-shirt people are getting custom Topps cards…hold on John Oliver wants to chime in…

Cool.

…and well….be sure to click on the cards so you can see the full picture and the player names.

I love you all. Thanks D!

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The Commish: MLB should Red Zone the NLDS and ALDS for one night

Welcome to The Commish, a series of posts where I try to save baseball.

Today’s idea is to Red Zone the ALDS and NLDS.

Let’s start simply for Year One.

The first night of the playoffs, start all the games at 7:30pm Eastern (where the population of the USA lives).  Let’s create a really buzzy night of television on a Tuesday night when there’s little sports competition.

The games can be on FOX, FS1, TBS and TNT in their normal fashion.

Over on MLB I want to Red Zone this.  We’ll have Bob Costas or someone sit in the studio and act like the Scott Hanson of baseball.   Unlike Red Zone, we’ll have all the games up on the screen at the same time….kinda like this….

In the big screen, the most interesting game with sound.  In the smaller boxes, the other three games.

So what about the commercials and all the complaining from TBS and FOX.   I dunno, figure it out.  Red Zone figured it out and FOX and CBS have stayed in business.  I’m trying to save the damn sport here.

I will point out I have left screen space for banner ads, and there is probably a way to show some ads in the big box.

My guess is this would go over really well and create a great night of television which is what baseball needs.

What about the poor folks the West Coast and the fans of the West Coast teams?

A valid point, but I am trying to save the sport here.  Again, let’s look at this graph that you glossed over the first time.

14%.  As Spock says, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.  Or the 14%.  I am trying to save the sport here.

Let’s take a look at what would have happened in 2017 with the actual matchups.

Houston vs. Boston.   Central vs. East.  6:30 playoff game, you’ll live.  Surely better than the 3:30pm local time start Astros fans had on October 5th….AT HOME.

Cleveland vs. New York (AL).   East.  Win.

Chicago vs Washington.  Central vs. East.  Fine.  In fact these two teams played at 7:31pm ET on October 6th

Dodgers vs. Arizona.  LA gets hosed with a 4:30 start….and I can’t keep track of what Arizona does with time zones or not.  I think in October this would be a 4:30 start.   Not pretty but for one night, let’s do it.

Let’s take a look at 2016….

ALDS:  Toronto vs Texas.  East vs Central again.  Discussed.

ALDS: Cleveland vs Boston.  East.  Nice.

NLDS:  Dodgers vs Nats.  Sorry LA.

NLDS:  Cubs vs Giants.  6:30 and 4:30.  Not ideal, but again for one night, deal with it.

 

 

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Mets Police Morning Laziness: World War Wright is coming

SLACKISH REACTION: I overslept and gotta get moving, let’s get to this!

David Wright says he expects to play in the majors this year. The Mets said whatever they said the other day. I increasingly predict this is gonna get VERY UGLY. Like 1977 level ugly. Like worse than Seaver ugly.

David played on Wednesday night and went 0 for 5.

You know who else played…the Dark Knight! Matt Harvey recap posts continue to be the most popular thing I can do around here.

You know who DID find his fastball..Gary Cohen with a great call.

Here’s the Mets 2019 Spring Training Schedule way early.  Usually Michael Baron has to stitch one together based upon what other teams have announced.  This year, a actual schedule!  In August!

Mickey Callaway wore a sweatshirt in the dugout in August.  I’d fire him just for that.

Look I gotta get to work….good stuff coming up later (pre-written).  Have fun.

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Matt Harvey pitched Wednesday vs the Brewers. How did he do? You’ll look.

The Dark Knight returned at an inconvenient time as I had plans on Wednesday.   By the time I got home, Matty Baseball was done for the evening having pitched FOUR innings, 11 hits, and five runs all earned.

The game started with a 27 minute or so delay but finally The Real Deal was on the mound and all was OK in the world.

The leadoff batter got a single, and as we know, Matty Baseball does not do well with runners on base.  Then the second guy got a hit too.  And then Travis Shaw did this.

Uh oh!  That’s a double.  Three batters, three hits, and time for a meeting.

And there are runners on 2nd and 3rd and no outs!  TDK got an out on a pop up, then Moustakas knocked in the 2nd run to make it 2-0

Matt got out of it…and I got my favorite capture, the Matt Harvey walks off after an inning look.  Anyway, fortunately for Matt, not too many people were on hand.

Let’s skip ahead to the 5th because it’s 10pm and I have had a few beers and want to go to bed and we know how this ends…

The Brewers got an infield hit back to Matt himself, and TDK looks displeased at the call.  I thought he was out Matt.  One man on.

Shake it off Matt…let’s get the next guy….UH OH

And to the track to the wall that ball is outta here (man what a bad call by me, that ball was massively gone, why am I mentioning the wall at all?)

Matt knows he has done bad.

Then ANOTHER single…and another….uh oh….we better get the bullpen rocking….and then ANOTHER single and Matt was going….

…..going….

…gone.

So another typical Reds-era Harvey outing.  I didn’t tell you he struck out the side in the 4th (he did!).  There are clean innings and disasters.  He cannot pitch through difficulty.  And that makes us all….