I still love the game but it’s a joke to see leadoff hitters striking out over a hundred times a season. They obviously don’t teach contact hitting anymore.
140bm edm and hippity hop music in the parks
Do they play that crap at tennis matches too?
End instant replay and knock 30 minutes off the total game time. Baseball was just fine w/o for 100+ years
My modest proposal is to limit each team to three pitching changes per game.
If this goes back to Boston, it may well be snowed out till springtime.
baseball=snore fest.
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.
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.
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!
End the game after seven innings instead of nine.
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.
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.
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.
Return to allowing only a minute between innings...there’s 30 minutes right there, easy.
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.
Ban velcro on batting gloves. Too many hitters stepping out to adjust them while they’re really trying to figure out what pitch is coming next. Make then stay in the box.
PLAYOFFS TOO MANY COMMERCIALS AND LONGER TIME BETWEEN INNINGS. BUT NO TOIME FOR NATL ANTHEM