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New MLB Commish: End the shift

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Batman, Jan 26, 2015.

  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Actually, in basketball, the two rules in the last 30 years intended to boost offensive prouction have had precisely the opposite effect.

    1. The 3-point shot has resulted in nobody taking any shots besides layups, dunks or wide-open 3's.

    2. The shot clock (in college) has done away with the handful of teams a season who would run a full-fledged four-corners stall for five minutes at a time, but instead virtually every single team in the entire goddamn sport holds the ball for a utter minimum of 30 seconds on every goddamn posession.

    Put together the result is that everyone milks the clock for nearly every second of every possession, before firing up 3s as ths shot clock goes off. Scoring goes down.




    In baseball I suppose you could put in a rule requiring defensive players to be somewhere within specific position zones when the pitch is released -- which would require the field to be covered with cartoonish-looking circle markings. That'll never fly.
     
  2. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    No game should, playoffs or not.
     
  3. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    I'm not sure that's how it would be implemented. word the rule that "when the pitch is delivered, at least three defensive players must be to the left of second base." The leftfielder, shortstop and thirdbaseman. The home plate umpire is looking straight at second and can easily count to three.
     
  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    That would be easy to fudge; you could just have the SS line up on the left side, take a running start as the pitcher delivers the pitch, and by the time the ball crossed the plate he'd be 10 steps to the right of the base. CF could do the same.
     
  5. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Almost sounds like teams shift in volleyball to keep in rotation and get the big hitters in the right place for the kill.
     
  6. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    I might have missed it, but does ANYONE think this is a good idea?
     
  7. EddieM

    EddieM Member

    Jay Bruce's agent?
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Mark Teixeira
     
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