Posted on 04/15/2017 5:11:51 PM PDT by TBP
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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.
Show-HEY Oh-TONN-ee.
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.
Brooklyn got screwed, and I agree with you about doubleheaders.
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.
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.
For that matter, no DH.
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.
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.
This guy works for a New York paper. He will get Hell this weekend.
I would hate to have to field his phone calls.
Ed
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.
Those occasional games that go to the early morning hours are classics one remembers forever! Dumb, dumb, dumb idea.
"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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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