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)
Savannah Bananas are fun. I grew up in savannah and got lucky enough to play some tournaments at Grayson stadium. No one hardly ever attended when they were minor league affiliated as the Sand Gnats. As the bananas though, it's rocking. An old stadium with a bit of charm and fun baseball. Definitely go! Worst case you get to spend a few days walking around the historic district. I love my home town.
Years ago my wife and I attended a Savannah Cardinals game at Grayson. I loved that park. Years later my son and his family lived in Savannah while he was at SCAD. We attended a Sand Gnats game then. Savannah is a cool place to visit. Haven’t been to a Bananas’ game but hope to someday soon. Lots of nice restaurants there.
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)
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!?!?
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