MLB Chatter Thread

[Cotton]

go sit on your porch with some Country Time Lemonade, gramps

Go worry about your replays, Cosby.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Imagine this happens to decide a playoff or world series game. What an incredibly dumb rule.

 

[Cotton]

Imagine this happens to decide a playoff or world series game. What an incredibly dumb rule.

They need to reverse this shit.

 

[bbgun]

sigh. you're not missing any action. they are taking roughly 23 minutes of nothing out of these games.

 

[Cotton]

sigh. you're not missing any action. they are taking roughly 23 minutes of nothing out of these games.

Like replays?

 

[bbgun]

Like replays?

that's not action, and one replay is usually enough

 

[Cotton]

that's not action, and one replay is usually enough

Then you will have to have pitch clock exceptions to accommodate said replay.

 

[Genghis Khan]

sigh. you're not missing any action. they are taking roughly 23 minutes of nothing out of these games.

And you aren't solving anything with this rule other than a few people's arbitrary complaint about time.

It's not football, hockey or basketball where time is part of the game. It's completely arbitrary to inject penalties surrounding time in an untimed game. Penalties that we now see can literally decide a game.

 

[bbgun]

And you aren't solving anything with this rule other than a few people's arbitrary complaint about time.

Of course you're solving something: speeding up a boring, plodding game. When you're sitting in the lower bowl of a stadium on a broiling hot day in July, you don't want to drag things out.

 

[boozeman]

I dunno about you people, but the clock thing might make me watch baseball a little more.

Baseball has rarely been about consequences.

 

[Genghis Khan]

speeding up a boring, plodding game.

That just means you don't like baseball. Speeding it up isn't going to make you like something you don't like.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I don't like avocados.

But maybe if I eat them faster I might!

 

[Rev]

Awesome.

 

[bbgun]

That just means you don't like baseball. Speeding it up isn't going to make you like something you don't like.

 

[boozeman]

That just means you don't like baseball. Speeding it up isn't going to make you like something you don't like.

Baseball is one of those sports that is so steeped in tradition that it is all it has left.

The game lost its charm for me a while ago, particularly around the steroid era.

If these kind of changes make things more interesting, I am all for it, just to see.

I like the idea of more stolen bases. But widening the base is not all that cool.

I am not married to the sport like some, but it is clear it has become very stagnant.

I can tell you this, I have no fucking idea how anyone owning a baseball team makes any damn money.

 

[Genghis Khan]

This is arena football mentality.

"We have to eliminate the downtime in football, and the boring parts like 'running the ball', and 'defense'."

Honestly, now that we've seen a game decided by a clock violation, I'm surprised people are still ok with this. It's an awful way to decide a game, in pursuit of nothing, and it can happen for real.

There are people that complained that the super bowl was "decided" on a penalty. If a world series game is decided on a clock violation it would be a million times worse.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Yeah this is awful. It's ADHD baseball.

 

[bbgun]

Yeah this is awful. It's ADHD baseball.

 

[jsmith6919]

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[Chocolate Lab]

You know I'm stealing that.