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Slow and Steady Keeps Us Awake: Major League Baseball Can't Fix Its Pace of Play Problem
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| October 25, 2018
| Jon Tayler
Posted on 10/26/2018 6:48:11 AM PDT by C19fan
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When I was growing up the term "launch angle" was not in the baseball vocabulary. The game has become home run or strike out.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:48:11 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I still love the game but its a joke to see leadoff hitters striking out over a hundred times a season. They obviously dont teach contact hitting anymore.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:51:45 AM PDT
by
dowcaet
To: C19fan
140bm edm and hippity hop music in the parks
Do they play that crap at tennis matches too?
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:51:49 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: C19fan
End instant replay and knock 30 minutes off the total game time. Baseball was just fine w/o for 100+ years
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:52:23 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
To: Michael.SF.
I would ban trips to the mound, and warm up pitches for relievers. The relievers should be all ready from throwing in the pen.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:53:31 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
My modest proposal is to limit each team to three pitching changes per game.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:53:37 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
Not only are the games too damn long, the season is too damn long. The World Serious should start no later than Oct. 1.
If this goes back to Boston, it may well be snowed out till springtime.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:54:14 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Texas Eagle
I am a Generation Xer. I remember scheduled double headers. But greed got rid of that.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:55:14 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Texas Eagle
Its not going back to Boston.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:56:14 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
Ah, yes. I remember double-headers.
If they're not going to bring them back, maybe it's time to go back to a 150 game season.
I know, I know. Neither of those things is going to happen.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:58:07 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:58:16 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: C19fan
Make the starting pitcher go 5 full innings.
Limit relievers to 3 per game.
And NO mid-inning pitching changes.
Allow variance for legitimate injuries. If you come out early, 15 day disabled list.
That would shave at least 30 mins from the average game.
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posted on
10/26/2018 6:58:33 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: C19fan
Look at how ludicrous the stats for the New York Yankees were this season.
They set a major league record for home runs in a season, and yet they only had one player (Stanton) reach 100 RBIs for the season -- and he had exactly 100.
In other words ... Not only were the Yankees scoring most of their runs on home runs, but they were scoring many, many of them on SOLO home runs. It was pathetic to look at a box score and see that they had hit five home runs in a 7-5 win.
That's not baseball. It's batting practice.
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posted on
10/26/2018 7:06:34 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians willm)
To: C19fan
To be fair, remember that scheduled doubleheaders were largely a relic of the era when teams traveled by train. Teams scheduled so many doubleheaders in those days because they needed more off days to travel between cities on road trips.
I looked this up, and apparently the record for most doubleheaders played in a season was 44 -- by the 1943 Chicago White Sox. That number is even more remarkable when you compare it to the length of the schedule at the time. Teams played a 154-game season back then, so the White Sox played 88 of those 154 games in doubleheaders!
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posted on
10/26/2018 7:11:48 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians willm)
To: Alberta's Child
No one has mentioned that most of the time is spent watching pitchers pitch. Too few base hits. Too little ball handling by fielders. Move the pitcher’s mound back some.
To: C19fan
Nothing wrong with the pace of baseball. It is what it is. That's the way it always has been. The problem with baseball is not the game but those who want to turn it into the NBA or NFL.
I'm OK with 1-0 games. Some of the best games I ever saw were in the 1990s with Atlanta's pitching staff. Maddux would have complete games with under 90 pitches. Awesome stuff. Talk about fast paced games!
To: Texas Eagle
Not only are the games too damn long, the season is too damn long. Amen! Preach on!
What I would like to see: <
- No baseball after Halloween
- No college football after New Years Day
- No pro football after Christmas. The Super Bowl should be played before Orthodox New Years Day
- No basketball after Easter
- No ice hockey after Memorial Day, and most emphatically, none after the summer solstice
To: C19fan
End the game after seven innings instead of nine.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
I'm OK with 1-0 games. Some of the best games I ever saw were in the 1990s with Atlanta's pitching staff. Maddux would have complete games with under 90 pitches. Awesome stuff. Talk about fast paced games!That was great stuff back then when starters were allowed to go deep into games. Now Maddux would be pulled after the 5th or 6th inning for a plethora of relief pitchers.
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posted on
10/26/2018 7:23:24 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Limiting defensive shifts and limiting pitching changes would strongly encourage more base path running. We might actually have interesting games to watch even if it lasts over 3 hours.
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posted on
10/26/2018 7:27:21 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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