New Baseball Rules

[Buccaneer Madden]

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.

I heard that about Bob Gibson. I think the walk one is dumb but the rest heck yeah... way too much wasted time adjusting gloves and jerseys after every dang pitch.

[godwulf]

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.