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Post by m1keyboots on May 19, 2018 12:45:00 GMT -5
After living in England, Holland, Germany among other places(not bragging I'm very fortunate I feel like holland, denmark or some of the other nordic countries would take to it. I'll put it like this, if you put a bunch of Dutch people in Fenway you'd get a better reaction than a bunch of Londoners. Also, in general German, Dutch, Belgian peeps like us more than Brits in my experience. Because they're still bitter we kicked their ass, what 250 years ago? I can't keep track. In all seriousness, I have never had issues with Englishmen in New York (or in Boston). As long as they don't try to expand to Europe, this is great. As James said, it's no further than a flight to the west coast, so why not. It should be good for baseball. As long as they make it equal 1&1 or 2&2, I'm fine. But who knows, with Torre in the front office. I also don't trust Khan. He wants the Super Bowl in London. That's just not right. Well I hope it didn't come across that brits wouldn't make it a grand old time. As you know they surely would! "Super, super Rick....super, super rick, super, super Rick. Super rick porcello!" Its Welsh, and it's the only cadence than matches Joe Calzaghe.
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Post by m1keyboots on May 19, 2018 12:47:24 GMT -5
I single stupidest idea in the history of the world. I don't care if it's good for MLB. I want to go. I'm working on my wife! Good luck pal. Toss in some "international significance/relations" comments. Maybe something about representation. You could pull it off.
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Post by klostrophobic on May 19, 2018 13:00:31 GMT -5
What is there to like? Why should any US fan truly give a crap about baseball in London? Is that going to be a "cooler" game to watch? It's not like there's real novelty to it like the first outdoor hockey game on New Year's Day. I can see not minding it and the idea to take multiple teams over there and spend a week makes sense but I don't see why current fans would like it or find it cool. Expansion into Europe would be a disaster with current technology plus more teams would water down talent even more making the product less enjoyable. I get Major League Baseball trying to lay foundation for a long term play but doesn't mean I have to like my team disrupting their season for it. I've already talked about the younger generations losing interest in baseball so I think that's a real long term threat to the game. Maybe baseballs hope is they can get favorable ratings, aviation technology will allow for 2 hour flights across the Atlantic within 20 years and they can start moving crappy American franchises there. I mean in England they like cricket sooo there's that Why would anyone be against the idea of bringing attention to a sport in a region that doesn't play it? It opens the potential for a larger player pool to draw from, thus doing the exact opposite of watering down the league. It's a 7 hour flight—who cares? They fly to Seattle and that's like 5.5.
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Post by rjp313jr on May 19, 2018 13:43:21 GMT -5
What is there to like? Why should any US fan truly give a crap about baseball in London? Is that going to be a "cooler" game to watch? It's not like there's real novelty to it like the first outdoor hockey game on New Year's Day. I can see not minding it and the idea to take multiple teams over there and spend a week makes sense but I don't see why current fans would like it or find it cool. Expansion into Europe would be a disaster with current technology plus more teams would water down talent even more making the product less enjoyable. I get Major League Baseball trying to lay foundation for a long term play but doesn't mean I have to like my team disrupting their season for it. I've already talked about the younger generations losing interest in baseball so I think that's a real long term threat to the game. Maybe baseballs hope is they can get favorable ratings, aviation technology will allow for 2 hour flights across the Atlantic within 20 years and they can start moving crappy American franchises there. I mean in England they like cricket sooo there's that Why would anyone be against the idea of bringing attention to a sport in a region that doesn't play it? It opens the potential for a larger player pool to draw from, thus doing the exact opposite of watering down the league. It's a 7 hour flight—who cares? They fly to Seattle and that's like 5.5. I don’t think I’ve ever had a post quoted from a year and a half back before.
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Post by rjp313jr on May 19, 2018 13:44:50 GMT -5
What is there to like? Why should any US fan truly give a crap about baseball in London? Is that going to be a "cooler" game to watch? It's not like there's real novelty to it like the first outdoor hockey game on New Year's Day. I can see not minding it and the idea to take multiple teams over there and spend a week makes sense but I don't see why current fans would like it or find it cool. Expansion into Europe would be a disaster with current technology plus more teams would water down talent even more making the product less enjoyable. I get Major League Baseball trying to lay foundation for a long term play but doesn't mean I have to like my team disrupting their season for it. I've already talked about the younger generations losing interest in baseball so I think that's a real long term threat to the game. Maybe baseballs hope is they can get favorable ratings, aviation technology will allow for 2 hour flights across the Atlantic within 20 years and they can start moving crappy American franchises there. I mean in England they like cricket sooo there's that Why would anyone be against the idea of bringing attention to a sport in a region that doesn't play it? It opens the potential for a larger player pool to draw from, thus doing the exact opposite of watering down the league. It's a 7 hour flight—who cares? They fly to Seattle and that's like 5.5. I do understand your point though, the influx of players from England joining the NFL has been impressive.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 20, 2018 13:32:04 GMT -5
Huh. Hadn't realized this:
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