Can someone explain why defensive shifts are a problem for the game?
I always thought they were interesting.
Go Woke, Go Broke.
Go Woke, Go Broke.
A Pitch Clock?! What is this, the NBA?
Just give the ump more discretion to tell the pitcher to hurry up, and tell the batter to stop leaving the batters box.
This is as bad as the ghost runner on second base in extra innings.
They are creating new problems without fixing the real problems.
Watch videos of baseball games in 1975, which lasted 2 1/2 hours and do it that way.
“... sport’s faded appeal with fans...”
I wonder what caused this? Could it be fans are fed up with wokism? Fed up with players kneeling during the national anthem? Fed up with greedy millionaires telling us they hate America?
It seems all sports have been ruined. Maybe I am just old and like old people through the ages, I complain about change and remember fondly of yesteryears. The ironic thing about changes in sports, it chases old people away and generates no additional interest from the young.
They embraced the woke BS so f-em they are dead to me.
Was at a triple A game last night and the pitch clock really moved things along. Game was just under 2.5 hours. Granted, the pitching changes all took place between innings but it was a nice, briskly paced game. One ball was actually called when a pitcher took too long. The shift shouldn’t be banned. Don’t turn this into the NFL with four million rules.
Taking intrigued out of baseball.
Taking baseball out of baseball.
Artificial
Artificial roboticism
Gone
The problem with sports is that there are too many rules and the rules constantly change. There will always be someone who will get around them to have an advantage over everyone else. It is human nature.
Bring back the beanball. There’s nothing else worth watching in a league that showed just how much they hate Americans.
Within the next decade, I’m sure the MLB will again change the rules to mandate the addition of basketball hoops and soccer nets until they finally all fess up that they hate baseball.
15-20 seconds is going to drive many pitchers nuts, and batters having to be “set in the box” by 8 seconds? Are they supposed to be staring at a clock? Dunno about this.
My rule IMHO changes....
1) standard fields...
2) only eight pitchers per team, other fielders can pitch
3) move mound back 3 feet
4) on field conferences limited to 20 seconds
5) only one warmup pitch for relief pitcher
6) umpires evaluated for consistency especially balls and strike calling
7) if umpire consistently makes bad calls, umpire goes to the minors
8)slightly heavier baseball
9) 93 feet between bases
10) KEEP FIELDING SHIFTS. Strategic placements of throws, pitches, fielding positions are the best indicators of the thought that goes on in baseball. Sometimes, it is a double dog dare...and that is great.
11) batter cannot leave box for more than 8 seconds
12) pitcher has 18 seconds to pitch
13) Relief pitcher pitches at least two innings or until end of game.
That should speed up the game a bit. IMHO
oh...and kill on field wokeism.
Whate are they talking about? The average length of a basketball game is 2 1/2 hours and a pro football game is 3 1/2 hours and they are supposed to be 60 minutes.
Watching football now, with all the rules, replays, do overs is like watching a game played by lawyers.
If baseball wants to speed up, get rid of the video replays.
Could not live down the laughter and derision of that video of the entire Kentucky Derby running in the time between two pitches?
Come on it is slow and boring as it, speed up the action.
I’m totally against banning the “shift”.
Learn how to bat around it! Bunts work. Slap and spray the ball around.
But because so much emphasis is on the home run and batters are too one-skilled, they want to ban the shift. Pffft!
i love the shift... banning it doesn’t make sense.
learn to hit the other way.
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Faded appeal with fans..
The day I stopped watching games of my former favorite MLB team, was the day some kneeled..
Their pace of play was sometimes ridiculously bad before then.
But it became unwatchable on that day.
Unwatchable ever since.
They didn’t lose me with lockouts,strikes,steroids,pace of play,etc..
They won’t win me back with pace of play either.
But I am not their target audience now.