Posted on 10/26/2018 6:48:11 AM PDT by C19fan
The difference is that almost every pitcher throws a 90+ mph fastball. They bring in 5 different relief pitchers just to pitch to specific batters. There are multiple pitchers that throw over 100 mph. The Yankees pitcher Chapman has recorded 105 mph.
Pitchers used to pitch the whole game. Now if you are not throwing well you are out after the first inning.
The number one reason the games are too long is that the other team stealing signs. Then the team in the field has to change their signs throughout the game. This is why the batter is always stepping out of the box and the catcher is always going to the mound. The other reason is the commercial breaks.
Yep. I hate the bleed over in seasons... I think that is a lot of the problems of losing viewership.
I could hit a home run at Yankee Stadium. That is IF I could actually see a 90mph fastball.
That is one of the main reasons why their stats are so heavy to home runs. There have been many articles written about the fact that the New Yankee Stadium is a joke. Almost as bad as Coors Field. There is a very short right field fence(315 feet). They have talked about moving it back but never have.
“Ah, yes. I remember double-headers.”
Every series that is a three game set should feature an afternoon double header.
The Brooklyn Dodgers won the 1955 seventh game of the World Series on October 4th.
Back then it was called the Fall Classic.
Now it runs into November and makes 12 year old kids go to bed rather than stay up to midnight on a school night.
The 1950’s New York Yankees played Sunday doubleheaders that started at 2:00PM and were over by 7:00PM. It takes that long to play a single Yankees/Rd Sox regular season game.
Exhibition teams playing under the name of “House of David” wore beards and travelled from town to town as side shows. Now every one of these crotch-scratching, seed-spitting major leaguers try to outdo each other as jihadi look-alikes.
And they wonder why attendance keeps going down and baseball is no longer the National Pastime.
After falling asleep during several games due to the pitchers and hitters stepping out of the box or off the mound trying to psych each other out, I came up with the solution. Record the game, fast forward at 1 speed on your remote and keep an eye on the batter running. If he runs, hit play and the DVR backs up just enough to catch the pitch and the hit or out. If you miss that, the game announcers always run a replay of the action. This not only speeds up the game, it avoids the inane repetition of factoids by the announcers. Needless to say, you can high speed through the commercials during pitching changes or the end of innings.
4 to 6 minutes of commercials every inning doesn’t help.
Exactly,where were these overpaid and overrated stars when it counted?
That's why the team has been dominated by left-handed sluggers for almost 100 years.
The one change you've seen is that the new stadium is much more friendly to right-handed sluggers than the old ones were. The "old" Yankee Stadium was 430 feet to left-centerfield before the fences were brought in during the A-Rod era to make room for the new monument area out there. And the original Yankee Stadium was 490 feet (yes, that's correct) to left-centerfield. Yankee Stadium had an irregular oblong shape to it for most of its history -- dating back to the time when it was laid out to accommodate a football field for the New York Giants.
“Not only are the games too damn long, the season is too damn long.”
AMEN!
They were playing to form. The Yankees had a tremendous season this year. No team with more holes and more mediocrity on its roster has ever won 100 games. Heck — I was surprised they were even a playoff contender down the stretch this year. I fully expected them to collapse once their early-season hot run wore off in late June.
296 feet
This is much of the reason I don’t watch much sports anymore. It is too much time to block out for watching intermittent action. That makes it hard to stay involved in the game.
Best 1-0 game of all time? 7/2/63, when the Giants beat the Braves 1-0 in the bottom of the 16th inning on a Willie Mays HR. Both starting pitchers, Juan Marichal (age 25) and Warren Spahn (age 43) pitched complete games.
Marichal would not come out of the game as long as the "old man" Spahn was still in the game...lol.
Return to allowing only a minute between innings...there’s 30 minutes right there, easy.
301 402 457 461 407 344 296 were the dimensions from the 1930’s to 1975.
and stop pitch counts.
Worst offenders - the Yankees.
Their sluggers will take strikes down the middle on the first and second pitches, get behind, the look foolish striking out on breaking balls low and outside.
But they sure drive up the pitch count - and lose.
Imagine if they actually started swinging at the fastball strikes right down the middle on the first pitch!
The Red Sox swing at the pitch they want. They get hits, and hits, and hits.
That’s why they’re in the World Series, and the Yankees aren’t.
This would knock off about two or three weeks from the length of the season.
I was rooting for him, thinking he'd start to figure it out, but his strike outs got worse this year, and he never tried to shorten up his swing with two strikes. IMO, he could've added 30-50 points to his batting average by punching it through the open areas of the shifts when he's behind in the count.
Rangers have become irrelevant, and will continue that under current management...and ownership. I think the owners will cash in their chips soon after the new ballpark is completed.
How do you handle injury? Or feigned injury or whatever? Maybe they come out and they can’t play again for 5 days like a starter. The union probably wouldn’t go for it.
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