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Related: About this forumSo Sportsters, what do y'all think of the planned baseball season?
I really haven't clicked around about it, but I shall be listening to a lot of baseball games starting next month. Like an unreformed junkie being released from rehab I just might OD
2 things:
1. DH everywhere?
2. In extra innings a man placed on second? did I hear that right? Shoot, just put your fastest guy out there
jls4561
(1,261 posts)or anything except making money. As a long time season ticket holder, I have seen all the changes in baseball, to allegedly speed up the game, and make it more exciting just lead to more inconvenience for the fans and more resentment and frustration.
I think baby Buud is just trying to sneak in the rule changes to make baseball more exciting and is using the coronavirus as an excuse to do so.
brush
(53,868 posts)virus still around, and then the post-season too.
As far as using the pandemic to sneak in rules changes, the game could certainly use some, but they never come up with anything that really speeds up the games or makes the game more exciting.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Meh.
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Both players go a taste of it in the American league so they are chomping their bits to get going. I think they will be flipping a coin to decide who gets to hit, "To Hell with what the manager thinks".
The anal side of me wanted 81 games, exactly half of the regular season. Baseball is a game of attrition and a marathon run, so I'd hoped they would have scheduled a boatload of doubleheaders to fit in the additional games.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I was thinking about that too
this may give some of the small market teams a chance at an improbable WS
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)I think they should cancel it.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Too many teams over a large continent. Just a few teams getting a few infections and the whole system will go bust.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)No fans in a crowd really kills a lot of entertainment, look how lame the late night talk shows have become without an audience to work off of, and besides, many of the players will pass C-19 to each other the longer this goes on.
Folks, it's a lost year, time to face that fact.
1. Ugh. DH makes baseball suck.
2. Yes, there's gonna be a skinny 19 year old on every team just for the 10th inning.