Nightly MLB threads

[burniebrewer]

How does everyone feel about this? For instance, tonight we've got our Brewers thread and meanwhile Randy Johnson is perfect thru 8. I wanted to get some interaction on this so I had to crash the in-game Brewer thread. If we did a MLB nightly thread, we could all discuss anything else going on in the majors without disrupting our Brewer thread. Is this something anybody would contribute to or am I just such a junkie looking for discussion???

[xisxisxis]

Very Good Idea!

[burniebrewer]

Thanks for your support David (geez, I sound like Bartles and Jaymes). Maybe this is something we can do and you know, pin it nightly like we do the Brewers thread. I know more people than myself want to discuss what's going on, right?

 

Not being in control of this board, I don't know if this is difficult or not. Could this just be done like the daily Brewer game thread and then "let go" the next day?

[DuWayne Steurer]

With a lot of people paying attention to the rest of the teams in the division on a nightly basis, I think this is a good idea as well. Even though there isn't much of a "race" at this point, there's still plenty of people who want to talk on a nightly basis about what's going on with the Cards, Cubs, Astros, etc., as well as other MLB stuff.

[burniebrewer]

I think the Daily Brew started listing divisional matchups recently (today?), so I know there is some interest in what's going on out there.

[pogokat]

there is plenty of interest...

on that note:

 

starting tommorrow, i suggest we have a pinned thread where everyone can complain about Pitch counts

 

also, we need one for people to suggest position swaps

 

and one for people to complain about people suggesting position swaps

 

and finally, we need a daily thread for people to make fun of espn in....

 

or we could just keep creating a new one of these everyday like we have been for the past 2.5 years...

[950opsLHcatcher]

It's a good idea in theory, but I think it's pretty rare that there are more than a few posts on any given MLB subject outside of Brewerdom. As I type this, there are about 12 posts in the RJ perfect game thread. Historic event and all... 12 posts... meh. Sosa on the DL with sneezes... 1 post... double meh. And consolidation of two events like that into one thread would just be confusing. "Johnson blew his perfect nose and landed on the Braves' DL? Wha?"

 

Maybe if the Brewers are still in the race come August, we can have a nightly "Playoff Chase" thread, but until then (like that'll happen anyway), I don't see it as being a big deal. It's kind of like the Minor League In-Game Thread idea... sounds good, but it would just end up being confusing.

 

People have also been good about not starting two threads on the same topic as of late (Kat is pleased), and rampant poll use is also on the decline (MassBrew is pleased). Everyone give yourselves high-fives on that one.

 

or we could just keep creating a new one of these everyday like we have been for the past 2.5 years

 

Posting anarchy is neat.

[xisxisxis]

or we could just keep creating a new one of these everyday like we have been for the past 2.5 years...

 

You forgot "Why strikeouts are worse than other outs".

 

 

It's a good idea in theory, but I think it's pretty rare that there are more than a few posts on any given MLB subject outside of Brewerdom.

 

So you don't want to encourage people to be general baseball fans, just Brewer fans. Maybe if we had discussions about baseball in general we wouldn't spend 99% of our time beating to death the same Brewer topic over and over again. Hey that might just be your form of masochism so I don't wanna tread on your toes Mr "Tommie".

[Member]

Would a Weekly MLB-game thread work? It wouldn't be as organized as the daily Brewer threads, but it would allow everyone to post their thoughts on specific non-Brewer games in a single thread.

 

Bash away...

[950opsLHcatcher]

So you don't want to encourage people to be general baseball fans, just Brewer fans.

 

C'mon, David, you know you can post cynical nuggets on any baseball team you want. I just think trying to lump all of baseball outside of Milwaukee into one thread would be a bit confusing.