Posted on 07/11/2020 8:00:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Universal DH only serves to drive up the worth of Madison Bumgarner.
Baseball on TV already stinks. It’s a pitcher-catcher video game (complete with phony ‘zooom” sound effects as the ball crosses the plate), and close-ups of the players & dugout. The exact opposite of a live game. They only show the field briefly, and then usually only for replays after the real excitement is over.
And droning announcers with fake schtick.
No thanks.
MLB is BLM backwards? Is “National League” offensive? How about “American League”?
I had heard that under the reducxed schedule, NL teams will have to play AL teams in their region but will not play a single game against teams in their own league in other regions. The Dodgers will not play the Mets, Cubs or Reds. The White Sox won’t play the Red Sox, but the Padres play the Mariners.
Why even bother calling them “Leagues” any more? They are conferences, now. Ugh.
Next season the rules must completely return to normal the way they were last season or baseball as we know it will be gone.
I do not intend to watch.
Buster Posey will be sitting out this bastardized season even if it gets started, to be with his new born twins.
Most of the players are not in shape physically and mentally. That and the bastardized shorten season could cause some serious physical and mental injuries along with the people crammed lifestyles on and off the field.
We are Giant fans, and we have used Sling to avoid the anti America sport nets for 3 years since we cut our cable. I am cancelling Sling at the end of this month.
I question whether real baseball will ever return.
If not it will be a tragic loss for the national culture.
Uh, no.
The DH was intended to replace pitchers in the lineup who are almost universally putrid hitters with a player who actually knows how to bat.
3+ months without pro sports and ALMOST NOBODY CARES.
They better face the fact theur audiences are down forevrr. If they start taking a knee duting the anthem you can cut the few going back in 1/2 or more.
Beyond the fact that the gambit looks like a gimmick because it is it will change the late-game strategy in ways that would appear to benefit home teams.
Actually, it benefits the visiting team who gets to bat with a runner on Second in the top of the 10th.
Granted, the home team gets to bat in the bottom of the 10th, but the visitor runs may have already been scored.
Give every team a trophy, draw the champion out of a hat. Don’t play any more games, ever. It’s the only fair way./s
Wouldn’t that be just like the other 9 innings? I don’t see any advantage, whatsoever.
Except the UFC. In the last 2 months theyve put on some of the best fight cards ever.
The shorter season is a great start to make baseball meaningful to most people again. They also should decrease the games to 7 innings. Right or wrong the game is too long and slow for the modern mind and life. Similarly golf should only be 16 holes.
‘The DH was intended to replace pitchers in the lineup who are almost universally putrid hitters with a player who actually knows how to bat.’
a shortcoming that baseball managed to not only overcome, but thrive with, from 1873-1973...what’s the old saying, if it ain’t broke...
Baseball is one of the rare sports where a home-field advantage is actually written into the rules (hockey is another one). Batting in the bottom half of an inning ALWAYS give the home team the advantage.
Baseball doesn't have sudden-death extra innings. Both teams get to bat the same number of times regardless of how many runs are scored in the top half of an inning (unless the home team is leading after the top half of the ninth inning).
This advantage is magnified in extra innings, because in the bottom half of the inning the home team knows exactly how many runs they need to score in order to win the game.
Look at the scenario presented here. It's based on an implicit assumption that the visiting team scored no runs in the top half of the inning -- because it would be ludicrous for the home team to give up two outs to score one run if the visiting team has already scored (for example) two or three runs in the top half of the inning.
My take: Next year will be fare more “interesting” than this year.
i.e. regarding baseball, it’s like a ‘59 Cadillac, it’s never coming back.
The problem I see is that each team could put up one run in each of the 10th through 17th innings. The rule change does nothing.
If I were a GM, I would sign Usain Bolt and put him on Second and give him the green light to steal.
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