Posted on 02/08/2017 7:13:31 PM PST by SMGFan
Lots of youth tourneys & some competitive youth leagues already use this or a variant thereof...it’s called the “California tie-breaker” rule...
Just make all games seven innings long instead of nine innings....that will solve the time issues.
Remove a ball and a strike from the count. Instead of 3-2 a full count in extra innings is 2-1.
Good freakin grief.
What moron came up with this idea?
An absolute travesty!
If MLB wants quicker games, it needs to cut the number of commercials and the time wasted between innings.
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.
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.
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.
ABOLISH THE DH!!!!
I think they just traded Dyson.
Like the NHL shootout.
Just input all the stats into a computer and let the computer tell you who won. No risk of injury, and games last seconds.
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.
“If people don’t want to come to the park, nobody can stop tehm.” — Yogi Berra
Or my APBA teams.
That would get me to start watching more. This idea is insane.
rofl!! Great movie.
Baseball as a professional sport is about 140 years old and the geniuses come up with this?
They already wrecked baseball with the DH, and then inter-league play...no reason to waste my time with it.
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.
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