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SaveFerrisB said:
Agreed, I think this thread is a good fit for the FFA, but I 'aint a mod!
Pretty much agree with everything here although I'm not sure how the salary cap could play out. I also think a big one is no defensive changes mid-inning. You would probably have to put in some kind of way around this for injuries, but I think its ridiculous that you can use 4 pitchers and 3 left fielders in one inning. Make all pitching and fielder changes between innings = huge time savings AND you don't break the momentum when a team starts putting hits together. After about the 5th inning, anytime something starts happening, its automatically a huge break for a pitching change.
It's like two minutes to change pitchers. He runs in, they cut to commercials for 90 seconds, and then they're back and he's ready to pitch. Is that really so objectionable?I'm all for speeding up the game in appropriate ways, but some of the ideas being floated out here are just silly.
I'd also like to see something limiting the time it takes a batter to get ready after every pitch. A pitch clock would help. If not that, then start simple, like one foot must always remain in the batters box. Enough of this walking halfway to the dugout to redo your batting gloves etc.
I was going to say naked cheerleaders...........but this works too.
One would really have to think hard to come up with a collection of ideas this bad.
why exactly are they bad ideas?Plus, you are aware that this isn't the first time most of them had been suggested in this very thread, right?shut it down said:
What about letting the CF on each team ride a dragon?
Score TD. Commercial Break. Kickoff. Commercial Break. 3 INC. Commercial Break. Score basket. Timeout. Commercial Break. Inbound pass, foul. Two Free throws. Timeout. Commercial Break. Start race. Crash. Yellow flag 10 laps. Crash on restart. Yellow flag 12 laps. If you want a sporting event without commercial breaks, your only options are soccer and the Masters. I agree with a pitch clock and eliminating the DH. Salary caps and revenue sharing changes arent necessary, merely change the draft to hard slotting with trading of picks and international players subjected to the draft.
Good idea, but how would they do that? Maybe signal the intentional walk and just let them go to first? Not a bad idea.
What part of my post suggests I don't think they should have commercial breaks? I'm saying that the breaks happen at the absolute worst times in the game. It also happens in basketball like you said once they start fouling and I think that is a huge problem for those of us that aren't huge basketball fans.Football doesn't take 6, 2-minute breaks as one team is driving to tie the game in the fourth quarter. They take them at the natural breaks in the game for the most part (although I hate instant replays and 2 minute warnings).
played during the day, without tv
Yes, TV stretched between innings from 30 seconds way back when to 2 & half minutes now.
What games are you guys watching with so many pitching changes? Generally, teams use 2-3 pitchers in a game. And I usually don't see more than 1-2 mid-inning pitching changes. Is this really a problem?Games are not lasting overly long right now. In fact, maybe I'm wrong, but I thought I had seen info that they have sped up in recent years. The pitching clock and aligning the leagues regarding DHs are the only reasonable suggestions I've seen mentioned so far. Defensive specialists is just a silly concept. That wouldn't add to the enjoyment of the game whatsoever. And there is no comparison to football since it's really not that tough to be competent defensively in baseball.
Any team with a decent coach has 3 timeouts and can challenge for an instant replay review. Now they dont neccessarily cut to a commercial for each timeout, but football has plenty of unnatural breaks in the game. There is a reason that Direct TV can show every play of a game inside of 30 minutes on a rebroadcast.
No offense, but no chance that this is true.
Well, I'm an AL guy so there aren't extra pitching changes due to heavy use of pinch-hitters. I'd still contend that 2-3 is very common. Four is also pretty common, but more than that is rare. And I definitely stand by the 1-2 mid-inning replacements a game.
I would absolutely stop watching baseball if the NL adopted a DH. And I know some friends that feel the same way about the AL dropping the DH. The leagues arent going to change the DH rules to be consistent.
Well they should. It is MLB, they should all have the same rules just like the other major pro sports.I would absolutely stop watching baseball if the NL adopted a DH. And I know some friends that feel the same way about the AL dropping the DH. The leagues arent going to change the DH rules to be consistent.
I'm not sure how to find the across the MLB average so I just started clicking random teams. The average is almost exactly 4.0 with the NL being about 4.2 and AL teams were about 3.8. You can find it for any individual team by clicking here at baseballreference. That means that the average game involves about 6 pitching changes. No idea how to find statistics on how many are mid-inning.
