Shove the "Golden Batter" straight up your ass!

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

golden batter is what they named my deposit at the sperm bank

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We actually used to do this during the soft ball unit in high school P.E.:

"Weren't you just up four batters ago?"

"No, I haven't batted in two innings."

WTF? Is he intentionally trying to ruin the game?

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JR can’t be for this. The Sox don’t have anyone worthy of the title.

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This idea is so stupid it is stupid. The game hasn’t lost appeal because Judge can’t bat in the situation the Yankees want him at the plate in. The game has lost appeal lost appeal because each game has 20 strikeouts and 10 walks, starting pitchers don’t complete 5 innings, and a parade of 4-6 relievers pitch in every game for each team.

The solution is easy. Each team is limited to 4 pitchers per game. You’ll see K’s and walks drop drastically when a guy has to get into the 7th inning each start.

this idea came up pre-pandemic by one 'baseball executive' as it was reported.

the argument was that in the NBA, you get your star to shoot the ball with the game on the line. In the NFL, you got your Tom Brady's of the world to make a final drive to win the game. So baseball wanted something like that and the idea was last AB in the 9th, the home team gets to pick 3 batters out of the line up to bat.

Looks like now they reduced that down to 1 batter but same idea.

The great thing about baseball is you don't need a big name to come up with a big hit to be a great moment. the nobody who gets the game winning hit is what's so great about baseball. So American about baseball.

This new cheat code is bullshit.

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120 games a year is off the table so they're left with brain dead gimmicks to try and resuscitate the corpse.

if it works for the savannah bananas, it works for MLB.

Goddammit. That is a good counterpoint.

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This idiot has 2 teams playing in Minor League stadiums next year and he is worried about bullshit like this.

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Or they could just play the game how it's supposed to be played and stop inventing rules that change everything.

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Players and owners would never take a 25% haircut. It's a complete non-starter.

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This is correct. No one knows how to pitch a ballgame anymore. They never have to learn. All they're asked to do is go out and throw nasty stuff one time through the lineup.

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The problem is a bunch of Ivy Leaguers figured out the best way to win ballgames and that way makes for a brand of baseball that is unwatchable. One Post is offering a solution to get the game back to "the way it's supposed to be played." There are other solutions but it is a problem that must be solved.

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In the end, it will be much worse than 25%. Start the non-starter

JORR once pointed out that baseball should stop trying to attract fans like me. We are gone forever. Never going to come back.

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What do you mean by "'fans' like you"? People who hate baseball?

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I hate baseball. At this point, who doesn't?

I wouldn't say I hate baseball. I would say I'm not interested in baseball. I've tried to watch and after an inning or two I'm out. I used to get the mlb.tv package because I'm a sucker for daytime sports working from home but eventually I found Dan Patrick and The Price Is Right to be more compelling.

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Right. So MLB shouldn't make changes to appease people like you who "aren't interested in baseball" (your words) that will destroy things about the game that are important to people who are interested in baseball like Douchebag and KDdidit.

If I asked you to make ten changes to the game that might make you more interested and Rob Manfred implemented them all, how many more games would you attend? How many more innings would you watch?

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I would say you are different than Brick. You don't hate baseball. You hate what baseball has become. That's the same way I feel. It's what One Post expressed as well.

Is there a way back? I don't know. But any changes in the game should be focused on the de-emphasis of the strikeout and the walk, i.e. emphasizing more balls in play.

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I wasn't saying you were wrong. There is no reason to try and attract fans like me. Concentrate on kids and people who actually watch baseball now.

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It's too late for that. Already lost a generation. Like completely. I have two adult kids who played. They watch zero baseball. It needs foundational change or the bleeding out will continue.

I still watch soccer and baseball because I don't have a problem watching boring sports. The lack of balls in play thing is the biggest turn off though. Hey Hey!

Also any adult or kid who plays with a sliding mitt should be banned from baseball for life.

I'll add that strikeouts were fine when only the elite pitchers piled them up. It was cool to watch a stud pitcher punch out a clean-up hitter with two on and two out. But now starting pitchers with 0-10 records are throwing up K/9 rates of 10. It's ridiculous.

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I had to look that up and see that it was a thing.

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Fucking Judge uses one so he can stick his gangly arm up to break up double plays.