If you like off-beat baseball, here's your ticket: https://www.click2houston.com/sports...m-are-bananas/
If you like off-beat baseball, here's your ticket: https://www.click2houston.com/sports...m-are-bananas/
M2 (04-13-2021)
I'm going to try to convince my wife to go to Savannah this summer. Gotta see this.
Last edited by M2; 04-13-2021 at 09:10 PM.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
texasdave (04-13-2021)
How many of those 9 rules will Manfred bring to MLB in the next few years? You know he loves every single one of them and wants to bring them all.
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
Old school 1983 (04-14-2021),texasdave (04-13-2021)
Batters can steal 1st is an interesting one. Definitely makes pitchers think twice about wasting one in the dirt.
SirFelixCat (04-27-2021)
RiverRat13 (04-14-2021),SirFelixCat (04-27-2021),texasdave (04-14-2021)
I like the stealing first idea. Pitchers should have to control their pitches.
I would also reduce the balls and strikes. 3 balls is a walk and 2 strikes is a strike out. Also when you have 2 strikes, you get one free foul. After that, it's a strike out. It would allow starting pitchers to go later into games, it would also speed things up. I realize traditionalists just fell out of their chair. If you really want to tighten things up, that's how you do it.
WHEN DOES IT STOP!?!?
Old school 1983 (04-14-2021),Shoeless Jeff (04-15-2021),texasdave (04-14-2021),Tony Cloninger (05-10-2021)
mth123 (04-15-2021),OGB (05-19-2021),Tony Cloninger (05-10-2021)
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
This sounds great. I have been meaning to take the family on a Savannah/Charleston road trip.
Also worth noting that the Bananas, despite their new-age rules, play in one of the oldest stadiums still in use in the country. It’s really an unbearable pit with humidity rivaling any ring of Dante’s. It’s also one of my favorite places on earth.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
RiverRat13 (04-28-2021),SirFelixCat (04-27-2021)
I strongly disagree. Baseball has a major issue. It is too slow for most watchers. Also there is a pitching problem. My solution speeds up the game and helps get pitchers go deeper into games. You saying you don't like it doesn't explain to me why it's awful. The game needs updating, in a bad way. Even as a long time baseball, fan a 5 min AB that ends up with a pop up to the catcher is hard to watch. When you condense the AB, it forces more action. Therefor, more interesting play. Again please explain to me why more action would be awful, because I'm not sure that it would be.
I'm assuming you wouldn't like it, because it is different. When you condense the at bat, it would focus more on contact, and make hitters much more aggressive. It would remove hitters looking for the walk. It would also greatly reduce the three true outcome issue that modern baseball has become. Again please explain.
Last edited by Z-Fly; 04-27-2021 at 07:58 AM.
WHEN DOES IT STOP!?!?
It's not baseball. It's a gimmick. It's like having three downs in Canadian football. Now, I might enjoy watching a Canadian football game here and there, but it's a different sport.
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