that major league baseball isn't called "major league baseballs" is a perpetuation of the one-baseball myth, one easily dispelled in the age of streaming. one can now simultaneously watch two games, in different cities, played with different baseballs. mlb does not use one ball and hasn't since 1997
I thought it was called that because it was named after League Baseball, Major in the US Army
Four bases, one ball. Basesball
Or we could call it the Gulf of America.
I remember when they introduced the second ball. All the traditionalists were up in arms.
The name makes me furious because it completely ignores the bats and the bases themselves, plus many other pieces of equipment used to play the sport.
Actually all baseball has been computer simulated since I returned from an August 1999 Royals game with the major league baseball.
Go Royals!
It's truly an outage.
If you wanna be accurate, it should be "Major League Basesballs" because there are clearly more than one base, even in a single game!
If we’re going for true accuracy, we should also address that there are multiple leagues. So it is Major Leagues Basesballs. It’s like Manfred isn’t even paying attention any more.
But when heard instead of read, "Major Leagues Basesballs" could be misconstrued possessively, implying just one league owns all of the basesballs. So, discounting the minors, it's Majors-League Basesballs.
This is true. In fact, up until 1997, there was only ever one actual baseball on tv. Ever. Joe Baseball, or as we now call him Old Man Baseball, started his career in 1923…
So we should have the NFsL, the NBsA?
It’s amazing
To clarify they should rename it to Baseball: The Game, Major League
World series?
Yes but all the baseballs are quantum entangled
Yeah, my mind wasn't thinking anything other than 2 games ... 😳
mlb has become what's referred to among sports leagues as "ball rich"
Especially compared to hockey
Or baseball is a giant quantum entanglement experiment.
It’s actually “the major league baseballs.” You have to include the “the”
It is a ploy of Big Balls to drive up prices.
Is the same thing true about the National Basketball Association? Have we been being lied to all this time?
Its a game. The singular form of the word is completely appropriate. You play or watch a football game. You don't play pokers, you play cards. Are you a bot?
Ouch, Jon, ouch
there is only one electron in the entire universe and its a baseball
In no single play is there more than one baseball involved. Henceforth, Baseball ⚾
jon i hate to be "that guy" but it's called major league baseball because, while you're correct that they use many many many balls during the course of the season, the goal is to find the ONE ball considered Major League. whoever does so gets to spend a weekend at Rob Manfred's house.
Is that a prize or a threat
rob's not there
There's an old John Mulaney bit about this, isn't there
dang I wanted to throw the major league baseball at him
A promise.
Don’t forget the meaningless piece of metal you also receive
what's weird is that's the key to Rob's house
How do you know it's multiple balls? What if it's just clever sleight of hand to make you believe there's more than one ball in the stadium? And have YOU ever been to more than one game at the same time? What you see online is just AI and fakery. _They_ want you to believe in multiple balls.
What if each of the “baseballs” is actually part of a greater whole and the many “balls” are, like the atoms that constitute our bodies, in total, The Major League Baseball?
No Jon is right. The last true Major League baseball was blasted over the RF porch of Tiger Stadium by Ken Griffey Jr in the 5th inning of their 8-6 victory on April 17th, 1997, and never recovered. Since then they've been using a likeness that just happened to be in Jose Bautista's pocket that day.
You're speaking of the Great Baseball Schism.
The Pirates have been following the Anti Baseball ever since
It was located during The Lasorda Inquisition
Time to call the Conglove (Conglave?)
1997-2015, the era of the Anaheim papacy
All this baseball talk is pretty disrespectful to those of us who celebrate Orthodox Opening Day in two weeks.
The Book of Prospectus, Chapter XVIII, vs 17 clearly states: "And said Ernie Harwell unto the radio, 'That ain't coming back, folks.'" There is no Melvin Nieves conspiracy. It's not hidden in copies of that right field porch in Arlington or Queens. It ain't coming back means it ain't coming back.
Uhm it's been proven that there's only one baseball in the whole league, it just moves super fast so it only looks like there's multiple
Stanley Kubrick filmed those games in a studio using a green screen.
Fuck MLB. $$$$$$ Go to little league. Honest fun, better food. Way better food. And $
Yknow, one ball game per game used to be a thing. Back when pitchers spit on the ball, scuffed it up on purpose, and home run n foul balls would be fetched and returned to play. The “dead ball era” ended when Carl Mays hit Ray Chapman in the head during a game at dusk in 1920. Chapman didn’t make it
I dunno Jon. If it’s true for the electron* it must be true for the baseball. * it’s not fwiw
Not since the Clinton line-item veto, right?
Maybe it's because the sport is called Baseball and not Baseballs. I can't tell if this post is meant to be silly if if it's just foolish.
You can’t tell? now that’s foolish …
Just wait till you find out there is a specific mud from New Jersey used on every game ball. No, seriously, special mud from NJ.
That you won’t use capital letters is a perpetuation of…
In 1924 the One Ball had so much grease and petroleum jelly on it that it caught fire when Boston’s Howard Ehmke threw a little chin music to brush back New York’s Babe Ruth, who had 60 home runs that season, more than any other baseball TEAM.
Basesballs
turner field was the first place where they introduced a 2nd ball
This is like when George Lucas changed the name from "Star War" to "Star Wars" when the special editions were released in the late 90s, and we all basically Mandela effected ourselves into thinking it was plural the whole time
One of those 'Baseballs' is obviously fake and not regulation-standard like the one and true Baseball.
It is based on the postulate that there is in fact just one baseball, and it is boring everywhere all at the same time.
I remember my grandpa never shutting up about that change
The league is actually named after the original Major League Baseball which was invented by Joseph “Big Joe” Baseball in 1872. Before that they only had minor league balls to play with.
please put the bong down
Ummm...I think they can do that with basketball and football, too...just sayin'.
Wait til you find out about the National Basketball Association they have been using multiple balls since 1949 when NBL/BAA merged they couldn’t agree on a ball so secretly used both! The in 1976 when ABA merged they had 3! It’s a scandal no one talks about.
What if the baseball falls into a black hole? Wouldn’t that be a singularity?
This is, of course, the result of the famous Baseball Theft Incident, when Steven J Chaussettes-Rouge caught the Baseball and took it home rather than sell it back to the league as was required in the terms and conditions of your ticket purchase at that time.
Honey, are we signing the kiddo up for baseballs this summer?
This is liberal slander and we will not stand for your lies
The physicist John Wheeler proposed the One-Baseball Universe theory, which posits that there’s only one baseball in the universe, traveling forwards and backwards in time, tracing all the paths that we think of as individual baseballs in individual games.
Just don't call it The MLB.
no no no it’s because it’s one baseball moving forward and backward in time, that’s where we get all the antibaseballs from as well
Where did MLB use only one ball in 1997?
Cleveland
Hell yeah
You play the game of baseball not baseballs so no big deal
😆
how did the ball travel, back in the '90s? curious - something like the Popemobile?
In England we have this game called Cricket... and there are no Crickets at all except the small insects that do not play the game.
Also they seem to use more than one baseball every game.
I believe it dates back to 1993. When the Blue Jays won the series. It may have been formalized in 97, but I think the first time was 93. Nobody wanted to use the same ball after that.
replies to post from a tapwater-drinking shill are full of sheeple lmao 🤣🤣🤣 there's obviously only one major league baseball that's shared among the teams. what you see on your idiot box is clones controlled by grok. you thought there's a guy named "lars nootbar" lol yeah right. real eyes realize
Lars Nootbar was my awakening. Milton Bradley and Coco Crisp raised my eyebrows, but it was when I heard Lars Nootbar for the first time I realized they had pulled the wool over my eyes.
Seems there are more important issues to deal with at the moment, just saying.
I mean, I feel like there's another reason they use ball instead of, balls. LMFAO
This is your worst take yet, Jon. It's obvious the proper name is basessssball because there are 4 bases and 1 ball in play during a single game
Not on MLB-TV, one can't.
audiences in the past would understand that the idea of a single "major league baseball" was meant to be understood allegorically as opposed to literally
kinda like feetball gate.
Counterpoint: the one baseball is being continuously reincarnated to accommodate multiple games.
Deep thoughts. 😆
Conspiracy
Joseph Campbell's Monoball Myth.
I remember back when the goal of the game was seeing which team could hit the ball over to the next stadium so they could play baseball next. It was exhilarating! Since they introduced those blasted extra balls however, the game hasn’t been the same.
That sounds like it could be the plot for 20026.
Mark McGuire hit their one baseball to the moon and they've been trying to get it back ever since
Boy, that's where you're wrong. The "balls" are never in play at the exact same time in those two games. They pass the ball back and forth in-between each play. You don't notice it because the broadcast has a 24-hour delay to give time for the homing pigeons to bring the tapes to Cooperstown
Agreed. I own one official world series baseball. I'm told there are many more used in any random game. 🤭
It is actually named after the man who invented it, Maj. League Baseball. They don’t talk about it much because Maj. Baseball forced enemy POWs to play his new sport and workshop rules.
I see what you did there but because of something called the Andromeda Paradox, baseball hasn't been played since 1996. Additionally since people insist on walking, it will never be played.
Every individual baseball is but a manifestation of the one, eternal, perfect and holy baseball.
I have th 1997 ball and will sell it too some rich nerd for
Sir, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn't exist.
Only casuals know of the 1997 switch. True students of the game realized the trick on May 30, 1980 when The Mad Hungarian Al Hrabosky expertly trapped umpire Bob Engel into revealing the truth.
Fun fact: The Johnny cash Song I’ve been everywhere man is a song from the perspective of a pre-1997 baseball. If someone knows ball, they know this about The Ball, so I know you know this, I’m just sharing for your followers.
THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to tell everyone, but they keep making me take the pills and work on the stupid train station puzzle.
Does anyone remember in 1987 when they lost the ball? Was a really lousy season, tbh.
Excuse me while I go write an Unknown Armies -ad-vent-ure- campaign.