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MLB to test radical extra-inning rule change in Minors, WBC
MSN Sportsnaut ^ | February 8, 2017

Posted on 02/08/2017 7:13:31 PM PST by SMGFan

Lower levels of professional baseball, as well as the upcoming World Baseball Classic, will have a radical rule change. When games reach extra innings, teams will begin their at-bats with a man already on second base. If it works well, the rule could eventually work its way to MLB.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: baseball; extrainnings; lame; mlb; no
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To: SMGFan

Lots of youth tourneys & some competitive youth leagues already use this or a variant thereof...it’s called the “California tie-breaker” rule...


41 posted on 02/08/2017 9:20:09 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: SMGFan

Just make all games seven innings long instead of nine innings....that will solve the time issues.


42 posted on 02/08/2017 9:29:46 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Colofornian

Remove a ball and a strike from the count. Instead of 3-2 a full count in extra innings is 2-1.


43 posted on 02/08/2017 9:31:58 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure.)
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To: SMGFan

Good freakin grief.

What moron came up with this idea?


44 posted on 02/08/2017 9:56:35 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: SMGFan

An absolute travesty!

If MLB wants quicker games, it needs to cut the number of commercials and the time wasted between innings.


45 posted on 02/08/2017 9:58:08 PM PST by PBRCat
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To: SMGFan

What you need to do is train pitchers to go nine innings, reducing pitching changes. That will go a long way to speeding up games.

I do like the pitch clock. We’ve had the 20-second rule for a LONG time, but there is no penalty. Call it a ball if he doesn’t do it, or a balk if there are men on base.

And does anyone know how to bunt or hit and run anymore? I’d teach my lefty hitters to bunt so they can do that when the other team puts on an extreme shift.

Sometimes with intentional walks, the pitch gets away and something happens that wasn’t planned. Waving a runner to first takes that away. They ought to make the catcher keep one foot in the box so the hitter has at least a theoretical chance to hit one of the four pitches.

It’s not just the length of games, but what happens during that time.


46 posted on 02/08/2017 10:03:11 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SMGFan

This commish sucks donkey balls. All this concern over pace of play to chase an audience that doesn’t exist. “If we shave an average 15 minutes off the game, they’ll watch!”

“No, I won’t watch baseball. It’s 3 hours and 15 minutes long.”

“They’ve shaved that 15 minutes off.”

“Whoo hoo! Get me season tickets!”

The pitch clock is really obscene. Baseball with clocks. Up yours, Manfred.

Instead of 2nd, they ought to give them 3rd and a rule that the pitcher can’t throw to third in extras. Just give him home. How that’ll end games is another question.


47 posted on 02/08/2017 10:03:55 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I definitely agree. The other downside of interleague play is that there are teams in your own league you only play six or seven times a year — one visit here, one there. You could use the interleague games to fix that.


48 posted on 02/08/2017 10:04:59 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: del4hope

ABOLISH THE DH!!!!


49 posted on 02/08/2017 10:05:47 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Stosh

I think they just traded Dyson.


50 posted on 02/08/2017 10:07:12 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: qam1

Like the NHL shootout.


51 posted on 02/08/2017 10:07:44 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: VRWCarea51

Just input all the stats into a computer and let the computer tell you who won. No risk of injury, and games last seconds.


52 posted on 02/08/2017 10:07:57 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Right Wing Assault
You're onto something here!

But I think the pitcher and batter should each roll a 20-sided die and depending on their prior stats and the result of the roll and some complicated set of charts that only D&D folks will understand, the player is either out or advances to the specified base.

Wearing Medieval costumery while playing should be strongly encouraged.

53 posted on 02/08/2017 10:08:32 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Iron Munro

“If people don’t want to come to the park, nobody can stop tehm.” — Yogi Berra


54 posted on 02/08/2017 10:09:08 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: MUDDOG

Or my APBA teams.


55 posted on 02/08/2017 10:09:45 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Colinsky

That would get me to start watching more. This idea is insane.


56 posted on 02/08/2017 10:18:56 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper cbrust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Billthedrill

rofl!! Great movie.


57 posted on 02/08/2017 10:20:40 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper cbrust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: SMGFan

Baseball as a professional sport is about 140 years old and the geniuses come up with this?


58 posted on 02/08/2017 10:25:23 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Make lemonade.)
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To: SMGFan

They already wrecked baseball with the DH, and then inter-league play...no reason to waste my time with it.


59 posted on 02/09/2017 12:47:24 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Colinsky

I was at a minor league game in Lynchburg, Virginia back in the seventies. It was a double-header, so the games were 7-inning games.

The stadium had a small foul area behind home plate, and the press box was near even with the field above the seats.

The game was going badly for the home team, a farm team for the Mets. All the umpire calls weren’t going their way. The game was running long.

A little better than halfway through the first game, the homeplate umpire looks up to the press box and points to his wrist as if to say, “What time it it?” I guess he was concerned about getting dinner.

The guy in the press box hollars down, “It’s the fifth inning!” Everyone was laughing hysterically.


60 posted on 02/09/2017 1:34:58 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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