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Needed MLB Rules Changes

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I'm fine with the change regarding intentional walks. I would also be fine with a limitation on number of mound visits per inning. I might even take it a step further and require a pitcher to face at 3 batters or get 2 outs, whichever occurred first (a different pitcher could start the next inning if the reliever only got the last out of the preceding inning). I'm also in favor of a pitch clock. The experiment in a couple of minor leagues this year placing a runner at second to start an extra inning is an over-reaction. That's too much like the college football OT rule. I wouldn't object if they started doing it in the 12th inning (more like the soccer approach).
What say you?
 
Hate all of it. MLB created this issue by never shutting up about it. If you want a faster game then get rid of instant replay. All of the changes are so negligible that they make no difference in MLB's self created problem. The intentional walk rule will literally save like 1 second per game because they are so rare.
 
As I read in a column - disallow adjustable gloves or ban them to keep the batter in the box after a pitch. Time wasted on adjusting on each pitch.
 
Cut the number of warm-up pitches from 8 to 5. With the number of pitching changes in the game today, you're looking at 75 or so less throws per game. Conservatively that would knock 10-15 minutes off the average game. Yes I know that cuts into advertising time, but there are plenty of creative ways to get advertising dollars w/o stopping the game.
And toss any manager who goes inside the lines to "protest" a call. It ain't getting overturned, and dens up a silly waste of time for everyone but in particular the fans.
 
Kelly Leak smacked a pitch that was intended to be an intentional walk. If he had beaten the tag at the plate, the Bears would have been those turds, the Yankees.
 
Mr Baseball almost set the Japanese home run record on an intentional walk pitch.

Also, the changes will make no difference in play time. An MLB game is what, 2.5 hours on average? That's shorter than an NFL game by a decent amount and around the same as an nba game. Really not sure the problem.
 
MLB needs a lot of major rules changes & overhauls but for whatever reason is stuck in all this tradition crap. Every other sport has undergone rule changes over the years [most for the betterment of their respective games] so baseball just needs to get on with it. The time it takes to play a game is ridiculous so speeding up play would be great. A 20 second pitch clock is a start. Limit the number of visits to the mound in an inning to something like tags sais--batters faced or outs gotten. Batters stepping out every pitch to tighten their gloves. So intentional walks is just a good start and if they would just get rid of all instant replay and realize the game is played and officiated by humans, what a better world it would be! :thumbsup:
 
Yeah but all the basketball rule changes fucking suck. The sport sucks balls now. Pro and college.
 
BillBrasky said:
Yeah but all the basketball rule changes fucking suck. The sport sucks balls now. Pro and college.
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AAU basketball has hastened that demise that is for sure. No fundamentals. Travel baseball has done the same thing to college & pro baseball. But the NFL has had plenty of rules changes also and all for safety and offense. Meanwhile college basketball has put in freedom of movement rules last year to take out all the physicality out of the game and get it back to a much better game. It is getting there luckily but it is still taking some getting used to by the players, coaches & fans. Just keep the hands off and quit knocking the crap out of each other!
 
Perfect new rule to speed up the game: Every player in the field has to either wear a glove on each hand, or no glove on either hand. And once you choose, that's what you are for the rest of your career, either a two glove guy or a no glove guy, no going back. Even if you try to go play in Japan or some kinda shit like that, the rule still applies, you made your bed. Keeps everyone honest. Brings the game back to its roots. #2GloveGuyOrNoGloveGuy #DontBeAPussyManfred
 
DaDeacs said:
Mr Baseball almost set the Japanese home run record on an intentional walk pitch.

Also, the changes will make no difference in play time. An MLB game is what, 2.5 hours on average? That's shorter than an NFL game by a decent amount and around the same as an nba game. Really not sure the problem.
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That there are almost twice as many MLB games as NBA games?

By the way, the average MLB game is around 3 hours, longer than it used to be 20-30+ years ago.
 
PhDeac said:
That there are almost twice as many MLB games as NBA games?

By the way, the average MLB game is around 3 hours, longer than it used to be 20-30+ years ago.
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Isn't 90% of that solely due to the fact that every game is televised now? There is no problem with the game itself (except for the AL and the DH).
 
20 second pitch clock. Batter wants to step out, use a timeout. 5 per game.
 
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There isn't a problem!!!! Manfred sucks. If you don't want to watch baseball then don't watch. Plenty of people watch soccer including myself and it's much more boring.
 
If you really want to shorten the average length of games, just prohibit the Yankees and Red Sox from playing each other.
 
Eliminating the four pitch intentional walk is a joke if the intent is to speed up games. The intentional walk takes a minute, two minutes tops, and occurs at a rate of once every 2.6 games. Big time savings!

The intentional walk was simply the only "speed up the game" rule change the players union and the owners could agree on.
 
DeacInVermont said:
If you really want to shorten the average length of games, just prohibit the Yankees and Red Sox from playing each other.
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Shorty said:
Eliminating the four pitch intentional walk is a joke if the intent is to speed up games. The intentional walk takes a minute, two minutes tops, and occurs at a rate of once every 2.6 games. Big time savings!

The intentional walk was simply the only "speed up the game" rule change the players union and the owners could agree on.
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The voices of reason echo in an empty hall.
 
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