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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:23 pm 
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This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas ever.

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Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday that Major League Baseball will test a rule change in the Gulf Coast League and Arizona League in 2017 that will place a runner on second base to start extra innings. Passan noted something akin to this rule has been a feature in international baseball and will be used in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

Testing the rule in those leagues "is part of an effort to understand its wide in-game consequences—and whether its implementation at higher levels, and even the major leagues, may be warranted," Passan wrote.

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I swear they did this shit when I coached softball. It was called an international tie breaker or something. It doesn't make the game any better or faster. It makes you small ball in a run and instead of playing multiple 0 run innings you play multiple 1 run innings.

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All 12" softball leagues I play in have this rule. If it's tied again there's runners on 1st and 2nd and then in the 3rd extra inning they're loaded.
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I think we did it in JV games only but I was like....the fuck....this is JV.....it doesn't matter if you win or lose...or tie...only that the game ends.

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Okay, test it, realize it's plainly stupid, and stop doing it. The NHL tried having one centered faceoff circle per zone and they realized it was stupid.

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I'd probably shoot up a mall or some kind of public place if this ever became an official rule
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Only if Herb Washington can be the designated runner.

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Hockey Gay wrote:
I'd probably shoot up a mall or some kind of public place if this ever became an official rule


thanks for the warning.
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Now that I think about it, this really is some NHL bullshit. God forbid people have to sit or stand more.

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It's better than Bud Selig's idea, to give the winners of extra inning games home field advantage in the All-Star game.
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Going to extra innings counts as half a win!

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Can't blame MLB for trying to make the sport less boring.

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You want to speed things up? Start every count at 1-1.

That happens. Many fastpitch tournaments start extra innings with the last batter of the inning at 2nd base, with 1 out and a 2-1 count. Modified Int'l Tiebreaker.

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Hockey Gay wrote:
I'd probably shoot up a mall or some kind of public place if this ever became an official rule

I'll join you. Be sure to save two rounds for me though for after we're done.

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Going to extra innings counts as half a win!

Eliminate Extra Innings & count it as 1/2 a loss.
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FavreFan wrote:
Can't blame MLB for trying to make the sport less boring.




It's an awful idea, I love baseball but if you want to make any changes start with..

1. Batter can't leave the box after every pitch to readjust his batting gloves.

2. Pitch clock

3. Automated strike zone

4. Every team either has a DH or none at all.

5. Only one mound visit per inning from catcher at most. ( including pitching coach)

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Raise all fences to at least 40' high.

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All I need is a legit pitcher's clock. Don't touch anything else. I love baseball and have no need to cater to people who don't or find the game boring.

I don't expect the NBA to cater to me.
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I agree.

Pitcher's clock which would give the batter enough time to check a sign or adjust a glove, and limit catcher trips to the mound to one per inning per pitcher.

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Hockey Gay wrote:
All I need is a legit pitcher's clock. Don't touch anything else. I love baseball and have no need to cater to people who don't or find the game boring.

I don't expect the NBA to cater to me.

Fair point but the NBA isn't dying. MLB needs fans like me. The NBA doesnt need fans like you.

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RFDC wrote:
This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas ever.

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Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday that Major League Baseball will test a rule change in the Gulf Coast League and Arizona League in 2017 that will place a runner on second base to start extra innings. Passan noted something akin to this rule has been a feature in international baseball and will be used in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

Testing the rule in those leagues "is part of an effort to understand its wide in-game consequences—and whether its implementation at higher levels, and even the major leagues, may be warranted," Passan wrote.

agreed

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If they're going to do that why not just give the batting team 4 or 5 outs.

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What a stupid rule.
Who do you put on 2nd? The guy who made the last out in the 9th? A bench player? What if you're out of bench players? Do you have to burn a bullpen arm to put a runner on 2nd?
This is just dumb.
There's good ways to improve the game. This isn't one of them.

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What might make more sense is disallowing pitching changes in the middle of an inning.

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Bad.
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What might make more sense is disallowing pitching changes in the middle of an inning.

So bad.

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