Thursday, November 11, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
1994 Strike
Baseball was at a debacle players felt that they were not getting paid what they deserved. Fans were not attending the games baseball was losing hype. That's why in 1994 the union called for a strike to freeze the 1994 season. And making 1994 the first time in 80 something years the World Series would not be played. No one owner was happy, they had to work an agreement and bring excitement back to the game. To do this they would have to pay their players, and generate a bigger revenue. hey would eventually do this and when they get through this debacle magic would soon embrace baseball for the greater good via the long ball!
Relievers
The bullpen in the mid 80's became the big thing to baseball. In the mid 70's they had a few relievers but in the 80's they began to have closers. They would usually pitch 2 to 3 innings as opposed to the closers of today's game who thrown 1 maybe 2 innings to close and save the game. With closers came the idea of middle relievers, they would come in, in the ladder part of the ball game which is the 6,7, and 8th inning. They have one job and that is to keep the game in tact, if the game is out of control the team will then go to the long relievers. They usually just go out and keep pitching til the game is over, just to save the bullpen for another time. Some of the greatest closers in the game range from Goose Gossage, Mariano Rivera and up to all time save leader Trevor Hoffman.
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