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tower912

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MLB 2017
« on: January 30, 2017, 01:56:36 PM »
'Cuz it is a new year.   
Luke 6:45   ...A good man produces goodness from the good in his heart; an evil man produces evil out of his store of evil.   Each man speaks from his heart's abundance...

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Re: MLB 2017
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2017, 08:23:04 PM »
Go get another one, Cubs.

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Re: MLB 2017
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2017, 03:41:43 AM »
Feb. 10, 2017 - 1:25 - In hopes of improving the pace of its games, Major League Baseball to experiment with new rule, automatically placing runner on second base to start extra-innings.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5319006616001/?#sp=show-clips

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tower912

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Re: MLB 2017
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2017, 06:57:29 AM »
It is an experiment.  Some experiments succeed, some fail.  I predict this one will fail.  The only way to truly speed up the game is to not allow batters to leave the box and to put a clock on pitchers.

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Luke 6:45   ...A good man produces goodness from the good in his heart; an evil man produces evil out of his store of evil.   Each man speaks from his heart's abundance...

It is better to be fearless and cheerful than cheerless and fearful.

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Re: MLB 2017
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2017, 07:22:06 AM »
Major League Baseball has several ways to speed up the game that are far preferable to automatic runners at second base (sounds like something we did as kids). They are:

1) Limit the number of throws a pitcher can make to first base to hold a runner on.

2) Limit the number of foul balls -- after so many the runner is walked.

3) The aforementioned pitch clock, making a violation an automatic balk.

4) Limit the commercial time between innings. TV commercials have added between 45 minutes and an hour to each game. Never will happen, but....

The problem with all these options is that the psyche of baseball is different. You go to a baseball game to relax, to kick back and to enjoy the people you're with, the game, the surroundings, the play and the crowd. If it's 50 minutes and you're out that you want, go to your brothel.

Oh, and the National League will get back to its normal post-stone age ways and the Cardinals will again rule!