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.
Now, all of that is out the window because closers and setup men have become as important to baseball as starting pitchers ... which means a team is far more likely to run out of pitchers in extra innings today than ever before.
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." In any given game, there's no reason for a team to have an active roster spot taken by other starting pitchers in the rotation who are never going to appear in that game. This will allow teams to add a few pitchers or a couple of position players to help get them through a long extra-inning game without wearing their entire pitching staff out.
Until the Dodgers come back, nothing will be right.
That, and Sunday doubleheaders.
If no winner why play at all? Find something else to do.
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.
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.
JUST HELL NO!
No ties. Leave the game alone before there’s nothing left of it.
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.
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.
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
Those occasional games that go to the early morning hours are classics one remembers forever! Dumb, dumb, dumb idea.
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.
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,