Things you'd change about baseball coverage (besides Joe Morgan)

Do we really need a sideline reporter in baseball? Can't the color analyst say the same bullshit?

 

No more in-game interviews with managers.

 

Universally OK use of the term RBIs.

What up, tp? ;D

 

What are run batted ins?

I bet the managers would be all for this, too.

 

Ditto

 

About that RBIs thing. Let's get this settled once and for all: The plural is RBIs, not RBI.

Oh, but some of you say, it's runs batted in, not run batted ins.

Think of a corollary: attorney general. If you have more than one, it's attorneys general. But the acronym is AG, and if you have more than one of those, you form a plural in the usual way, so it's AGs. I hope you wouldn't write, or say, there were four AG in the elevator when it fell.

More than one RBI = RBIs.

 

The new AP box scores. As if we didn't have enough to do; now, in the face of shrinking web widths and space, everyone who built macros and auto-formats for box scores now has basically been told by the AP, "Fuck you. Get back to work and build new macros and auto-formats, because we decided to arbitrarily change the way we do things."

Go fuck yourselves, AP. And I say that from the bottom of my heart.

 

I say we go with RsBI to avoid any confusion.

 

Every time I see one of them, I think, "Why would they tell any of their players' weaknesses right now?" and "Can't they wait until after the game?" and "I really wish I could see the game right now."

 

Every time I see one, I assume the manager thinks, "Why the fuck do I have to talk to these morons in the middle of a damn game?" Maybe they'll catch Ozzie at a bad time one of these days and that'll be the end of them.

 

I'd get rid of it entirely. [/baseballhater]

 

Go cook a cat.