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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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To: dfwgator

bttt


61 posted on 04/15/2017 9:12:30 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: TBP

The best player from each team, dressed in catcher’s gear and wielding a bat, meet in single combat at second base to decide the winner.


62 posted on 04/15/2017 9:14:05 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: heterosupremacist

Show-HEY Oh-TONN-ee.


63 posted on 04/15/2017 9:21:03 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: shanover

The only reason they have ties in spring training is that the visiting team only brought so many pitchers, and they’re not throwing long stints. So when tehy run out, the game’s over.


64 posted on 04/15/2017 9:22:30 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Jim Noble

Brooklyn got screwed, and I agree with you about doubleheaders.


65 posted on 04/15/2017 9:23:31 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Alberta's Child

In the early 20th century, two pitchers named Joe Oeschger adn Leon Cadore pitched in a 26-inning game between the Dodgers and Braves. They both went all the way.


66 posted on 04/15/2017 9:24:37 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Alberta's Child
I've proposed a change in roster rules that is intended for other purposes but could really help in this situation. Instead of having a fixed 25-man active roster, each team should be able to carry up to 30 players on its "big-league roster" and then activate only 24 players for its "game roster."

I've suggested something similar. They do something like that in the NHL.

This would enable players who are injured to be kept off the DL (the two players who collided in the Yankees-Rays game, for example, could be "scratched" for a game or two), enable teams to carry a third catcher (so they aren't afraid to use the second one), and the Players Association would like it because more guys would be accruing MLB time. It would be a boon to managers.

67 posted on 04/15/2017 9:27:15 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Fiji Hill

For that matter, no DH.


68 posted on 04/15/2017 9:27:59 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

TBP to heterosupremacist

Show-HEY Oh-TONN-ee.

Thank you for replying, I was no where even close to pronouncing that one properly!

P.S. Sounds like a Comanche name when you say it like that.


69 posted on 04/15/2017 9:49:35 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: TBP

They need to introduce contact baseball like hockey where the batter has to try to hit the ball while the opposing team tries knock the living crap out of him. The belly itcher of a pitcher should only have less than 20 seconds to throw the damn ball from the time he receives it.


70 posted on 04/15/2017 10:50:29 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: TBP

This guy works for a New York paper. He will get Hell this weekend.

I would hate to have to field his phone calls.


71 posted on 04/15/2017 10:57:31 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: TBP
Let's have losers in the Playoffs too! Just like the NBA. Get a life you commie ass twinkle toe fairy and go Fu@fup something else. Like your life.

Ed

72 posted on 04/15/2017 11:56:59 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: TBP
That sure was a different time, eh?

I remember reading an article about Walter Johnson, a Hall of Fame pitcher from that era. He was considered the hardest-throwing pitcher of his time, and legend had him compared to more modern counterparts like Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson. This article was a combination of a historical retrospect and a scientific analysis of Johnson's windup on grainy videotapes, and the experts who conducted the study figured out that he probably threw a baseball around 80-85 miles per hour.

73 posted on 04/16/2017 2:44:15 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: TBP

Those occasional games that go to the early morning hours are classics one remembers forever! Dumb, dumb, dumb idea.


74 posted on 04/16/2017 2:53:17 AM PDT by grania (only a pawn in their game)
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To: grania
Or they'll come up with a home run derby to decide the game similar to an NHL shootout. 😝
75 posted on 04/16/2017 3:42:36 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: headstamp 2
Baseball should be timed like football. LOL
"Game called on ‘count of darkness.”

Games don’t start in the morning, so without lighting they couldn’t run much more than 9 hours, if that. Only because of electric lighting, could you play ‘till you dropped.


76 posted on 04/16/2017 3:53:41 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: TBP

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


I’ve heard that the majority of extra inning games are decided in the 10th or 11th inning. An 18 inning game is very rare.

This “problem” is easily solved, in my opinion. Simply suspend the game if it goes too long, and continue it the next day, or the next time the teams are scheduled to play each other.


77 posted on 04/16/2017 8:07:24 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Pawtucket Red Sox (AAA affiliate of Boston Red Sox in Pawtucket R.I.) had longest professional game in 1981:

The PawSox played in and won the longest game in professional baseball history, a 33-inning affair against the Rochester Red Wings at McCoy Stadium. The game started on April 18, 1981. Play was suspended at 4:07 a.m. at the end of the 32nd inning.


78 posted on 04/16/2017 10:29:54 AM PDT by BansheeBill
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To: TBP

I know next to nothing about baseball, but playoff hockey is theoretically endless, and my guess is that those players are far more exhausted than baseball players. I wouldn’t want ties,


79 posted on 04/16/2017 10:32:02 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Alberta's Child

I suspect The Big Train was faster than that. (That’s another thing — where are the great nicknames?)

Walter Johnson may be the greatest pitcher of all time.

(BTW, there is a high school in Bethesda named after him. Most of the students have no idea who he was.)

But back then, they didn’t place so much emphasis on velocity. Pitcher were pitchers, not speed machines. Gaylord Perry got to the Hall of Fame on junkballs. So did a lot of other pitchers. Carl Hubbell got there on ba screwball, which he threw so often that in pictures,, you can see his left hand (his throwing hand) facing teh “wrong” way.


80 posted on 04/16/2017 12:42:52 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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