Mona Lisa Baseball

Recent and pending MLB rule changes (0:12) Why can't we just ask the pitchers to work quicker? (3:34) Clayton Kershaw got yanked after 7 perfect innings and seemed to be fine with it (9:22) Giants vs. unwritten rules and the first ever woman base coach (20:00) The old way vs. the new way (25:58) Excessive celebration and the guys who could get away with flipping the bat (27:26) Do we really need m...

Anonymous 1 asks about the ins and outs of high school baseball with manager/coach Anonymous 3! The best game I've ever seen at the high school level. (1:58) No unshelled peanuts. (3:13) The entire field is recycled tires. (4:49) What is allowed on these premises? (9:22) Please explain the EH to us? (12:41) 15 kids and 9 positions. (17:05) Everyone is the star of their own show on the internet. (2...

Can we still call it "baseball?" (0:07) What would Will Smith say? (0:51) People hate the automatic runner. (2:27) Television! (4:07 ) Is this our last show? (6:36) Humility and a channel update (8:10) Is there a chance to reverse some of these rules? (13:32) Stop comparing baseball to other sports! (14:28) FU MLB TV! (18:07) Inject more offense! (23:21) They dammed the Colombia. (23:21) An idea t...

Is baseball a bad TV sport? (0:18) We love the horse out there. (8:55) Agents, the salary cap and capitalism. (15:49) Are we really watching the best? (31:14) The tipping point. (35:09) The designated shortstop hitter. (37:02) José Oquendo, the utility player. (39:10) The Bug Selig Rule. (39:50) You can actually suck and still play in the all-star game. (42:42) Play baseball! (43:32)

Addicted to video games? (0:13) Rebalancing and Street Fighter II (3:50) What worries you the most? UDH is a deal breaker (6:07) Constant complaining. (9:20) A small town in Nevada (10:52) Is MLB TV just propaganda? (13:41) Business vs. art (19:15) 85 wins is all you need now (20:38) Perfect or close to perfect? (21:01) Kelly Slater's wave pool (21:56) "Broken" strategies and Jacob Nottingham (22:...

Helmets on pitchers? (0:12) Barry Bonds' elbow armor? (2:05) The most expensive baseball card in the world. (8:30) Two brands of baseball. (12:16) Ballpark vibes. (18:43) Why does the shortstop have to bat? (21:30) Unnecessary plastic surgery and men without pants on. (28:25) Can every day be the greatest day of your life? (31:28) 30 Ozzy Smiths? (34:17) Designated runners? (35:24) Jim Abbott. (39...

Shohei Ohtani (0:40) Jacob Nottingham (9:12) Steve Cohen (10:40) Where's Tony Gwynn? (14:22) We're so over Albert Pujols (17:53) MLB network is brainwashing fans (23:28) Everyone thinks ghost runner is stupid! (26:50) 12 team playoffs (29.21) The Giants were moving to Florida (32:01) Barry Bonds (33:32) The 14 year old P.O. (35:15) Bigger bases (36:33) Pitch clock, & Goose Gossage. (37:41) Shi...

Getting drafted changes your perspective (0:07) We craft new tools with HAL9000 (01:00) and ask who will give baseball a voice? (2:53) Should people who buy teams pass a test? (8:38) F#%& you American League! (9:40) New metrics (11:24) Baseball is perfect for radio (13:28) The luxury tax obsession (18:54) Disruptor Mets guy Cohen (20:11) These are not chess pieces, these are people (23:19) Vid...

Can we talk about the robot umpire? Who do you want to boo? (0:36) Game over for good rival Eric Gagne. (1:09) How fair are the umpires? (4:41) What is best for baseball? (5:21) Can we give the umpires better tools? (6:46) The hill at Enron Field. (9:49) Baseball in 1000 years? Put the team on a spaceship. (20:20) Give it back to the fans. (23:02) New fans. (26:05) Resetting the lineup because we...

So what is your baseball perspective? Is the game a piece of art? Or is it just business as usual? Should we limit the number of throwbacks? (1:17) Do you remember that time they banned the curveball? (4:27) What is the threshold for rule changes? (4:47) The NBA problem (5:21) and the Atlanta Braves (6:23) help us understand the owners. Do you appreciate slow and graceful things? (10:33) Have you...

Do we need more or less technology in baseball? By using our terminator vision (03:12) We can see the box, (02:27) puppet umpires, (04:22) and ugly gadgets. (07:16) What if field goals had no poles? (07:24) Please bring all of your baseballness (08:46) as we boo the umpire. (08:58) Is Rob Manfred the chosen one? (12:00) We're not sure, but we hope you live in a baseball town. (14:25) Why isn't ins...

Assuming humans exist in 100 years, what will baseball look like? Do you need some skin in the game to enjoy the game? (01:36) Will baseball still be the only show in town? (03:48) Indifference does not apply to the price of beers (06:36) nor bad behavior at Wrigley. (10:46) Is memory a sweet lair? (13:58) Or was Bob Gibson really that good? (16:45) How does the Shohei miracle (19:52) relate to th...

Anonymous 1 summarizes season 1 and Anonymous 2 can't believe they want to ban the shift. Now more than ever we can see that baseball is not immune to the corrupt actions of it's stewards (6:30) and as we travel back in time to the '94 strike (9:38) and remember high school baseball, it's hard not to dread another dark alignment of stars. Everybody has questions. Do the players really want the uni...

Mona Lisa Baseball is back! Get ready for a whole new season where we'll cover all the recent changes to the game that we love.

All Major League baggage gets aired out leaving nothing behind...not even the ushers.

The pillars of baseball receive their job assignments while recognizing you can't force anything to be popular.

Tackling the elephant in the ballyard...$$$

Our narrator goes to his first game in many years and discovers first-hand how business-first baseball can pollute and dilute the experience of going out to the ballgame.

Take a tour around the greatest and the lamest parks ever built while getting slapped in the face by an audacity laced and collusive decision.

She said it best, speaking of pitchers, "How can you call yourself a ball-player if you don't even bat?"

Superman comes swooping down to save the sport from self-annihilation. Yes, we're talking about Shohei.

Diving deeper into the ethics of changing rules in baseball.

A sport on the brink of drastic change after being virtually untouched for decades.