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10-03-2014, 11:20 AM #1
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Re: New Baseball Rules
I don't mind the automatic intentional walk pass. It really is a waste of 4 pitches and about 1 minute but really how many times does this happen in a game? Its not like they are really saving time here. It would be different if this happend 4 or 5 times every game. Sometimes guys do get to carried away with all there antics in between pitches which i wouldnt mind seeing them cut some of that down. You could probably realistically cut some decent time down in a game with that. I think this could create an advantage to some pitchers such as Mark Buehrle who seems ready to go as soon as the ball is thrown back to him and disrupt the timing of certain hitters.
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10-03-2014, 04:42 PM #2
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Re: New Baseball Rules
Speaking of saving time, I remember hearing or reading somewhere that Don Drysdale used to sometimes just hit a guy that he wanted to put on base, rather than go to all the trouble of throwing the ball four times.
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10-03-2014, 08:34 PM #3
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Re: New Baseball Rules
Make batting gloves illegal and it will probably make the game go twice as fast.
How many times do that have to adjust those things anyway?
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10-03-2014, 10:27 PM #4
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Re: New Baseball Rules
I think that maybe the limit on the number of time-outs that can be called will have a serious effect on the guys who think they have to unfasten and refasten their batting gloves after every pitch - even if they didn't swing. After a guy gets called out on strikes a few times because he ignored the fact that the umpire disallowed his request for time, the team Manager is likely to toss that guy's supply of batting gloves in the trash.
Jeff
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10-03-2014, 11:04 PM #5
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Re: New Baseball Rules
I'm not even a fan of instant replay, nevermind more rule changes.
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10-03-2014, 11:17 PM #6
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10-04-2014, 09:06 AM #7
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Re: New Baseball Rules
The best part about instant replay, in my opinion, is that teams are now allowed to show controversial plays on the Jumbo-tron - they used to get fined for that. I've seen it happen a few times recently where an umpiring crew will reverse a call on its own after New York has declined to...because everybody in the ballpark has watched it on the big screen from four different angles, in slow-motion, and knows the ump screwed up.
Jeff
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