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From: [email protected] (David Madden)
Subject: Re: How to speed up games (marginally realistic)
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In article , [email protected] (Gary Built Like Villanueva Huckabay) writes:
|> You want to speed up ballgames?
|>
|> 3. Mandate a rule permitting only N seconds between pitches (the current
|> rule is too lenient), and then enforce it. Fifteen seconds is more
|> than enough time. If the pitch isn't released in 15, call it a ball,
|> and restart the clock.
|>
I remember a post from last year indicating that a "pitch clock" was tried
in one of the minor leagues some time back and did not work. I don't remember
why they said that it did not work. Anyone remember this?
Jody McDonnel on WIP in Phil. has been saying that a pitch clock was
inevitable. How would a pitch clock work on throws to first?
Another pair of suggestions:
1. Remove the Balk rule. It is the runners responsibility to stay "safe"
no matter what the pitcher does.
2. If a pitcher throws to an occupied base more than X time (X = 3 to 5)
without successfully picking off the runner, the runner advances a base
as if walked.
The no-balk seems to give the pitcher the advantage. The base-walk allows
the runner to "challenge" pitcher to throw over to the base.
|> Baseball games take about 2:51 in the NL, and just a shade under 3 hours
|> in the AL. That's just too damn long. I don't like to PLAY in 3 hour
|> games, much less WATCH a game for that long. My butt falls asleep, and
|> if I'm watching on TV, I'll channel surf between pitches, catching
|> colorized versions of Mr. Ed, Leave it to Beaver, and "Those Wacky
|> Nieporents" on Nick at Nite.
I too, find myself surfing when I know that it will be enough time between
each pitch to allow the batter to adjust his "jewlery".
|>
|>
|> --
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David Madden