LA Angels Tuesday News Crash: Projecting Angels

The thinking around the ghost runner is fun for me because it shows me all the weird ways my brain can bend the way it views things.

The ghost runner is stupid! I hate losing a game just cause the Mariners get to start an inning with a RISP! Well, it’s OK when we win that way I guess. But I hate it because part of real baseball is the marathon aspect of the game! Plus extra innings is full of drama! Well, accept that marathon games are generally boring AF. How often have I lamented the roster exhaustion after we play a really long game? How many of these extra inning games actually provide me any actual drama? Honestly it seems most of them are between two shitty teams that couldn’t really score all game and then slouch their way through more crap innings until an outfielder starts pitching and finally gives up a run on a sac fly…. and then the home team farts away the bottom half of the inning. YAR! But what about that game against the Mariners when we clinched play offs and A’s v Rangers went extra on the scoreboard TV and drama drama momma!?! Awesome! Plus, don’t be a pussy! But, would those games have been less fun and dramatic if there had been ghost runner sudden death? Doesn’t it make the 10th way more urgent? Am I a pussy? No. I’m pretty sure I’m not. But what if Francis Ngannou was coming after you? Ok. Maybe a little.

In ten years, when many of the people complaining about ghost runners and the DH in the NL and interleague are dead, I bet 95% of fans won’t even be able to imagine sitting through a five hour game (or leaving, more likely) after watching pitchers hit (if you can call it that) for nine innings and never seeing the NLs star players play their team.

Face it. Manfraud is likely right about this stuff. It is also likely that the people attaching complaints about Manfraud’s ego etc are the ones flexing their own egos. “Man made me unhappy feelz. Thus he is huffy with ego!”