[jingram058]

Originally Posted by SAllen2556

This is the same stuff people were complaining about in 1930. Money has ruined the game. The home run has ruined the game. If you collect old baseball stuff, I assume you have some knowledge of the history of baseball. Yet you choose to ignore it.

Baseball has evolved. It's a really old sport. The rules of baseball in 1887 were as different from the 1960 version you seem to long for as today's game is. Do you want to go back to when Germany Schaefer could steal first base? Do you want to go back to a time when the stupid Yankees just bought the pennant every year? I read a book by Mickey Lolich who was scouted by the Yankees who just assumed, because of how much more money they were offering, that he would sign with them.

I don't know who outside of New York could have possibly been a baseball fan of any AL team in the 1950's. It was over by Memorial Day most years. You want to go back to that? You want the A's to be the Yankees farm team like it was in the 50's? You want the St. Louis Browns back who drew 500 fans a game? Sounds like baseball nirvana to me - not!

Baseball is basically the same game it's always been. Pitch the ball; hit the ball; score the most runs and win the game. To whine about designated hitters and taxes is nothing but the ramblings of an old man - sorry. The 1919 White Sox threw the damn World Series because of money!!! That alone makes yesterday's game a joke compared to today's.

Your complaints are similar to people who say the music of the 80's, or whatever decade you turned 18 in, was better than anything today. One of the consequences of old age is the refusal to accept change - that the old days were the best. They weren't!

No, the money from 1930 brought forward to today is nothing like today. When you change everything because of money, it is not the same game. I'n not old. I'm not a fogey. I am a realist. If you're young and enjoy today's MLB, great. If you are old enough to remember it before colossal sums of money mandated all the changes, perhaps you would see things differently. Lots of folks on this forum have deep pockets, so they don't see the money issue. That's fine. I believe the game is not the same, and for the worse, not better. Nothing is going to change my opinion. I don't watch it; to me it's too painful to watch. Unpleasant. Not fun.