Posted on 04/15/2017 5:11:51 PM PDT by TBP
There’s no tying. There’s no tying in baseball.
The most famous tie in major league history — the 2002 All-Star Game — was so infuriating and embarrassing to then-commissioner Bud Selig that it led to the Mid-Summer Classic determining home-field advantage.
We like resolution. We like tradition. I get it. Yet, I think the major leagues should allow ties if a game remains deadlocked after 12 innings.
I know that will anger folks who don’t want major alterations made to a game that they find close to ideal as is. But the reality is we have a pro-active commissioner, and improving the view-ability of the product and lowering injuries are his obsessions.
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Baseball is apparently getting caught in the grip for endless, pointless change that has driven the NFL into it’s current unwatchable state. There is no baseball fan that is calling for an end to extra-innings until someone wins. This is being driven exclusively by television executives and marketing MBAs, none of whom have probably every played baseball in their lives and couldn’t sit through three innings without looking at their smart phones.
No ties in baseball? I do not know nor do I care.
However, I might be inclined to become interested in baseball if they would move the mound further away from the plate and therefore make it more offense-minded.
Watching two guys play pitch-and-catch is boring but 25-24 score, slow-pitch softball is enjoyable!
JUST HELL NO!
No ties. Leave the game alone before there’s nothing left of it.
JUST HELL NO!
No ties. Leave the game alone before there’s nothing left of it.
It doesn’t matter to me one way or the other..
A tie = a half game in the standings.
I love MLB, and I love the NFL.
It's kind of a big deal during the NFL season, because it is 16 games long.
A tie may make a real difference in football when it comes to playoff time.
MLB has 162 games.
I'd be stunned if a tie really made THAT much of a difference over a season.
Once the bullpen is exhausted, why risk a position player pitching to determine the outcome?
He may not have thrown a pitch since high school.
In football it makes A BIG difference as there are no ties in post-season by design.
I see no good reason to ruin MLB arms.
Such a stupid idea. The All Star Game tie was an embarrassment. I totally agree that this fundamentally changes the game. Major League Baseball will turn into another Grapefruit League or even T-Ball where everybody wins. Some teams may just play to tie. NFL is already ruined by too many stupid changes.
“No ties!
No interleague games during the regular season!
No games after Halloween!”
Can the Designated Hitter!
If it’s anything like soccer scores ties, the Mets advance since a tie is better than a loss.
JUST HELL NO!
No ties. Leave the game alone before there’s nothing left of it.
“I’d be stunned if a tie really made THAT much of a difference over a season.”
The 1978 American League East tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 1978 regular season, played between the rival New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to determine the winner of the American League’s (AL) East Division. The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston, on October 2, 1978. The tie-breaker was necessitated after the Yankees and Red Sox finished the season tied for first place in the AL East with identical 99–63 records. The Red Sox were the home team by virtue of a coin toss. In baseball statistics, the tie-breaker counted as the 163rd regular season game for both teams, with all events in the game added to regular season statistics.
Joel is a moron.
baseball...........?????.................hmmmmm???...............baseball?????..........yeah, I remember now, that’s that silly game where grown men chewing gum and scratching their balls go out and swing a stick multiple times at a little ball zooming by them at a hundred mph and then after a man in black yells “yourrrrrrrr out” he turns around, spits, and goes back into his hole and then another man comes out of the hole and does the same thing all over again.
Yeah, I remember it................yawn! Been around a long time someone said...............yawn!!!
“was so infuriating and embarrassing to then-commissioner Bud Selig that it led to the Mid-Summer Classic determining home-field advantage. “ Well, this year it is back to meaning nothing, Best record at the end of the season will determine World Series home-field advantage. Not sure what happens if there is a tied record. And they did not face each other during the season .. or the split their games.
Of course I like to watch 18-inning games. This guy is a big jerk for even mentioning doing away with extra innings.
Why don’t we just go back to AL in odd years, NL in even years? Simple. Everyone can plan.
If you like baseball, why wouldn’t you like more baseball?
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