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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

All fine changes.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

if MLB can figure out what a legal slide is based on video analysis and player consulations, why can't the NFLdo the same to define what a catch is?

The reviewable neighborhood play is dumb. You add a rule to make infielders "safer" and immediately take away the thing that makes them safest and leaves them on the base like sitting ducks. Allowing contact on the double play is completely needless and needed to be left in the past with Ty Cobb mutilating people. "A good hard slide" seems like some coded language for dipshit TWTW.

Baseball is too confusing. Too much replay. Too many commercials. Not enough action going on and a lot of standing around. That is why I don't watch much.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

They should just get rid of the force play entirely in baseball and switch to only peg outs.

(or Indian outs as we called them as kids).

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I have hated the neighborhood play for as long as I can remember.. Good riddance.

I'd like to see -

Blood testing
Can only step out of the box once per at bat
Computerized strike zone
No drop third strike
Dh in national league or lose it in AL..gotta be the same

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Starting this season, mound visits from managers and pitching coaches will be limited to 30 seconds and tracked on an in-stadium clock from the moment they exit the dugout, sources familiar with the rule change told Yahoo Sports.



Gonna be funny watching these slow pokes pick up the pace this year

Gonna be a lot of Harvard Step Test and shoe tying by coaches and managers this year ... maybe even the occasional Gerald Ford to buy some time for the bullpen in a crucial game.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

They should just limit the number of mound visits allowed per game by awarding "timeouts" to each team. Allow maybe 4 or 5 per game, Any other mound visit made after timeouts are exhausted must result in a pitching change.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Yes.

If they were serious about shortening the length of the game they would limit the number of times a player or coach can approach the mound during play.

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If they were really concerned, they'd play thru commercials and catch up the viewer DVR style each inning.

Kenny is going to have yo get Coop a segway.

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I don't understand people's need for baseball to end 15 minutes sooner than it does now.

People can't wait for baseball to start so that it can be over.

Let's just simulate the even-numbered innings on an old Commodore Amiga so we can get back to watching reruns of Cagney & Lacey on your phones sooner or whatever it is you people are doing with your precious time.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I don't need the game to go faster.

Simultaneously, I don't need some fatso in a uniform stopping my game every six minutes to talk to his butt scratching pitcher.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Replay took away the "in the neighborhood" out. Ironic.

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I'd say give one or two free visits per game...and then every subsequent visit requires a pitching change.

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The 15 minutes people want to get rid of are the worst 15 minutes in sports. It's a better game when it's played at a livelier pace.

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Clocks have no place in baseball.

Yeah, I don't like having an official clock running, but a strong recommendation of 30 seconds is fine.

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Why?


Do you have any clue how many hundreds of rule changes have been implemented?


http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rulechng.shtml

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Your link disproves your post: there haven't been substantive changes to the game since the mound was lowered and the strike zone was tightened up.

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Was just saying this in the office.

Also I respect the game of the guys who slow walk to the mound.


But I get it.


Also, Ive worked out the FF thing.

You start the inning at the beginning, after each pitch, you skip through the 14 seconds of bullshit.
So its like "Stirke 2" cut to the pitcher in his windup for the next pitch (as many of us have done on our own)

You'd catch up by the third batter at the latest.

Game takes 2:30, commercials stay, nobody misses anything.

Replay is a fucking disaster. All MLB does is cry about how long the games are while putting in shit that makes them longer. Let the game be imperfect the same way life is imperfect.

And you knew once replay was instituted the neighborhood play wasn't going to last long. Now, the first time some middle infielder gets crippled than can all wring their hands and make some radical rule change like what they did with that stupid ass "Posey Rule" that no one really understands.

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His mind is not for rent to any God or government.

When i was a kid I used to hope for extra innings so I could watch more baseball.

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His mind is not for rent to any God or government.

As Keith Olbermann once pointed out (which I'd link to if ESPN didn't disable all his youtube videos, those shitheels), baseball doesn't really want to fix game length: why would they build all these mallparks designed to separate you from your money and then want to get you in and out of them as quickly as possible?

The NHL is having a similar problem with their new challenge system: everyone talks about Needing To Do Something About Scoring, then implements a system that can only subtract goals and never add them. The Sharks, of all teams, were the ones to successfully game the challenge system: any goal-against with even a slightly dodgy zone entry or even the slightest goaltender contact gets challenged, the idea being that all the ignored offside-by-a-millimeter calls will get reviewed and have the goal washed out. If it doesn't work, your stalling iced the scoring team, and you get nine media timeouts a game anyway.

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No, the link shows how much has changed since the game was created..change isn't a bad thing, there is room for improvement.

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