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Baseball exec: Reduce games to seven innings

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Apr 8, 2014.

  1. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I'd be in favor of that one as well... :D
     
  2. DeskMonkey1

    DeskMonkey1 Active Member

    getting rid of strikeouts in baseballs is like getting rid of turnovers on downs in football
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Nobody says get rid of them. It's not T-ball.

    But they need to be reduced, perhaps dramatically, and I suspect they will be, in the relative near future.
     
  4. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Stay in the box; you don't need to do the Nomar (I blame him!) thing after every pitch. Bonds ('roids and all) was the last batter who stood in there and did not leave. Come on guys, get retro!

    As a fan for the past half-century, the stepping out is the worst thing that's happened to baseball. The next is the getting rid of the baseball after every time it hit the dirt; so what?
     
  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    A-Rod needs braces.
     
  6. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Why do you hate-watch baseball?

    I'm beginning to wonder whether you partake in things just to torture yourself over them. Explains the obsession with Slate which does much of the same. You analyze to the nth degree until it hurts.

    I finally figured you out ... you're a closet masochist.
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I love baseball. It's my favorite thing.
     
  8. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    You love it until it hurts so good apparently.
     
  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I love baseball.

    Right now, the ball is not in play enough.

    I don't understand your point. Did people who advocated to lower the mound starting in '69 "hate" baseball, too?
     
  10. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Even more than disabusing posters of dogmatic religious conceits? I don't believe you.
     
  11. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    How do you reduce them? Lower the mound? That would put pitchers at significant risk for injury. Limit the strike zone?
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Lower the mound. Also, deaden the ball to reduce the incentive to swing for broke.
     
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