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Baseball should have tie games whether you like it or not
New York Post ^ | April 15, 2017 | Joel Sherman

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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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; extrainnings; ties
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NO! NO! NO!

This messes with the fundamental structure of the game.

The argument is that nobody wants to watch 18-inning games. But no baseball fan I know objects to doing it.

1 posted on 04/15/2017 5:11:51 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

Baseball should be timed like football. LOL


2 posted on 04/15/2017 5:13:41 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: TBP

There is no tying in baseball just like their is no crying in baseball


3 posted on 04/15/2017 5:13:58 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TBP

Joel must be running out of ideas.


4 posted on 04/15/2017 5:15:48 PM PDT by map
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To: TBP

stop fixing baseball. some people won’t be happy until it’s the ridiculous spectacle the the nfl has become.


5 posted on 04/15/2017 5:17:54 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: TBP

I bet the author wears pussy hats.


6 posted on 04/15/2017 5:18:33 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: TBP

Everyone gets a trophy?

Pink hat guy


7 posted on 04/15/2017 5:21:18 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Here is another problem.

Say, for purposes of argument, that the Nationals go 95-67, while the Mets go 94-66-2. Who’s the division champion? How do the ties affect it?


8 posted on 04/15/2017 5:21:51 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Any sports league with ties would have rules for a tiebreaker. In the case of the Nationals and the Mets, the tiebreaker would be either wins (I think that’s the way the NHL used to do it) or their records against each other.


9 posted on 04/15/2017 5:23:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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well, given the fact that it’s the nl east, I’m not sure anyone will care ;)

I kid. I kid.


10 posted on 04/15/2017 5:26:47 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: TBP

I agree, no, no, no. Problem is I can see the MLBPA being all for this.

Freegards


11 posted on 04/15/2017 5:29:27 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: TBP

Let me see...we are supposed to care what this person thinks. Why?


12 posted on 04/15/2017 5:31:05 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: richardtavor

He’s one of America’s best-known baseball writers and an analyst for MLB Network.


13 posted on 04/15/2017 5:31:57 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

NEVER!


14 posted on 04/15/2017 5:32:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: raybbr

bttt


15 posted on 04/15/2017 5:33:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: TBP

Really there should be no winners or losers either. Aren’t we all winners, really. All baseball players should get a game ball and a snack bar ticket at the end of every game.

LEAVE THE GAME ALONE before you ruin it. If you want to screw up a game, screw up football.


16 posted on 04/15/2017 5:33:29 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: headstamp 2


"Baseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end - might have extra innings.

Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to *sudden death*."
17 posted on 04/15/2017 5:33:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Alberta's Child

Hillary voters would tell you that the winner should be the team that got the most hits.


18 posted on 04/15/2017 5:34:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: TBP

And for all that is holy don’t even think of bringing shootouts to the Stanley Cup Playoffs.


19 posted on 04/15/2017 5:35:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Baseball is played in a park, a baseball park.

Football is played in a stadium, a war memorial stadium.


20 posted on 04/15/2017 5:37:16 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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