Thread: The Lansing Lugnuts

Originally Posted by aging one

The Banana's are way cool. Making minor league fun.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cjnUboJgFnM

Give it a click for a laugh, sorry wont imbed.

Bloody hell, I thought misskit was making un petit jeu de mot

New generation of young fans. What the hell, overall its still baseball.

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or a reasonable facsimile

Hey thread starter get posting. Best baseball thread right now.


The minor leagues, playing for love of the game or the chance to make it to MLB. Most players are on 25-35,000 dollars a year. Pennies, they travel by bus and stay in motels. But they entertain and play good enough ball to want to watch.

Originally Posted by aging one

Hey thread starter get posting. Best baseball thread right now.


The minor leagues, playing for love of the game or the chance to make it to MLB. Most players are on 25-35,000 dollars a year. Pennies, they travel by bus and stay in motels. But they entertain and play good enough ball to want to watch.

Yes, this is definitely the best baseball thread on TD.

I expect the cut and paste wanker will be forced to join in sooner or later. His OCD will have him foaming at the mouth every time he sees his banal threads demoted.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I expect the cut and paste wanker will be forced to join in sooner or later. His OCD will have him foaming at the mouth every time he sees his banal threads demoted.

the cut and paste wanker



I think we should all adopt the Lugnuts as our very own TD favourite baseball team!

Originally Posted by aging one

Hey thread starter get posting

48 hours ago, we boarded a plane, after a month in Thailand. Layovers, and hangovers, took their toll, and and I finally got some sleep last night.

AO, I know you’re a huge baseball fan. I’ve been a fan since the late 60s, when old man used to take me to see the Louisville Colonels, the AAA team for the Boston Red Sox. (the Boston Red Sox are a major league team, based in Boston.)
In the 80s, the Louisville Redbird’s, were the AAA team for the St. Louis Cardinals, and one of my summer gigs was selling beer, at the ballpark. “Beer! Get yer cold beer!” That was back when you could actually afford a beer, at a baseball game.


Speaking of cheap beer, AO. Do you remember, “Ten-cent beer night”?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Yes, this is definitely the best baseball thread on TD.

I expect the cut and paste wanker will be forced to join in sooner or later. His OCD will have him foaming at the mouth every time he sees his banal threads demoted.

The pain must be extreme

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The thing that got me was that they kept stopping the game and standing around like idiots just for TV adverts.
I'm sure our beloved Lugnuts are not forced to do the same thing and that Lugnuts games are action packed from start to finish.

Harry, baseball does not have TV time outs for adverts. The way the game is played they are not necessary. American football does. You dont have to embellish your stories with BS mate.

Originally Posted by aging one

Harry, baseball does not have TV time outs for adverts. The way the game is played they are not necessary. American football does. You dont have to embellish your stories with BS mate.

Well it did in 1991 so I would humbly suggest that you fuck off with your nonsense.

I should elucidate by giving you game 7 of the 1960 World Series where none of the breaks took more than 60 seconds.

The lugnuts commemorative shirts are rather fetching don't you think?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1676419417360457728

I like toffee. I wonder if the lugnuts sell toffee?

Do you think we're giving the Lugnuts some well deserved publicity?

Lansing Lugnuts
@LansingLugnuts

Tonight's attendance: 11,521.
It is the largest crowd in Lansing since 2013.
Thank you to everyone for Going Nuts with us tonight, and happy 4th of July!

A television timeout (alternately TV timeout or media timeout) is a break in a televised live event for the purpose of television broadcasting. This allows commercial broadcasters to take an advertising break, or issue their required hourly station identification, without causing viewers to miss part of the action.


Baseball

No formal television timeout, but the interval between the end of a half-inning is set between two and three minutes for televised games, and during pitching changes that happen in the middle of an inning for the pitcher to warm up. The pitch clocks surrounding the field are used to indicate to spectators and those on the field how much time remains before the inning's start and the game broadcasters have returned to coverage of the game. WIKI


Learn the game Harry....

So just a quick question then.

The pitch clocks surrounding the field are used to indicate to spectators and those on the field how much time remains before the inning's start and the game broadcasters have returned to coverage of the game.

So how do the "game broadcasters" recoup their $550 Million annual fee then?

I'll wait.

By the way this is a fascinating discussion. This is what makes this by far the best baseball thread on TD.

By the way, did you know that the team are colloquially known as the "Nuts"?

So they can say "Go Nuts!".

That made me chuckle.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

So how do the "game broadcasters" recoup their $550 Million annual fee then?

I'll wait.

Watch a game Harry and you will see, or google it.


Its slow game Harry, 9 innings with a top and a bottom of each inning. There are 2 to 3 minutes between innings to get the defense off and the offense batting. Then there are numerous pitching changes during a game that take time.

There is also the 7th inning stretch...

Originally Posted by aging one

Watch a game Harry and you will see, or google it.


Its slow game Harry, 9 innings with a top and a bottom of each inning. There are 2 to 3 minutes between innings to get the defense off and the offense batting. Then there are numerous pitching changes during a game that take time.

There is also the 7th inning stretch...

But as I pointed out above, in the black and white days the break between innings never exceeded 60 seconds.

There has been a mandatory break for a long time, and it was certainly in evidence when I was drinking the free dog piss masquerading as beer.

In fact:

MLB is putting its money where its mouth is on improving the pace of its games. Long thought to be a measure baseball would never consider, shorter commercials breaks are coming to our favorite pastime. Obviously decreasing the amount of time they can show advertising during the games, MLB is taking a financial hit to get more actual baseball on TV screens and it’s not a small hit. Commercial times will be cut by 33%, going from 3 minute breaks to 2 minute breaks and there’s even an option to shorten them even more. Conventional wisdom says the split screen ad model is coming to baseball at some point, but no one should be complaining about less commercials and more baseball

So while they may not call it a TV Timeout, it is a mandatory timeout and is used for broadcaster commercials, no?

I'd be more concerned about the split screen stuff described in the last sentence. I see some foreign broadcasters doing that in football and it quite irritating.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I think they should offer some vegan options.

In Michigan?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

But as I pointed out above, in the black and white days the break between innings never exceeded 60 seconds.

You said the game you saw was in 91, color had been used in totality since the mid 60's.

Originally Posted by aging one

You said the game you saw was in 91, color had been used in totality since the mid 60's.

The game I saw was in person.

The game I posted for you showing no mandatory innings breaks was from 1960.

Originally Posted by bsnub

In Michigan?

I feel the Nuts should be inclusive, especially as Michigan is the in the top ten Vegan states.

Michigan Ranks In The Top 10 For Vegans Among All Of The States.