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Manfred backed into a corner, finally does what he should have done in May. You lost a month of baseball games for stupidity. When Trevor Bauer is making salient points about the stupidity shown by MLB, the owners, and the players you know they done fucked this up.

 

 

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29 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

I hate this almost as much as Manfred hates baseball. 

 

I would hate it under normal circumstances but this season will not even feel real. This is the season to test out all the quirky shit they want to test. Test it all and see what sticks. 

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But that’s the problem

that rule sucks but it’s going to stick if they try it out 

can’t wait to see some team (not named the Astros) miss the playoffs because they are involved in an extra inning game in game 59 or 60 that they lose because the last place team they are playing has their bottom of their order bunt/punch and Judy specialists due up and the playoff contender has their middle of the order mashers due up.

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26 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

I would hate it under normal circumstances but this season will not even feel real. This is the season to test out all the quirky shit they want to test. Test it all and see what sticks. 

Yep. Universal DH. Runner on 2nd to start extra innings. Robot strike zone. Replay feeds only available after the pitch. Players mic'd up.

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I don't understand who wants this.  A great thing about baseball is that weird shit happens because there are so many games.  A pitcher hits a game winning HR.  A game goes 18 innings.  Sure it's rare but if you watch a lot of baseball it could happen.

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6 minutes ago, Helobious said:

20% is not an insignificant number, at all. Much higher than I imagined it’d be actually.

Per the chart I posted above, there are an average of 37 games per year that go over 12 innings. That’s 1.5% of games played in a season. Is that insignificant enough for you?

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45 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Per the chart I posted above, there are an average of 37 games per year that go over 12 innings. That’s 1.5% of games played in a season. Is that insignificant enough for you?

Beat me to it.

8.2% of all baseball games in the 6 seasons between 2012 and 2017 went in to extras (frankly, I was a little surprised it was this high)

But only 1.5% of all games in that timeframe went over 12 innings. That comes to 2.4 games per team per season.

As a fan, I love those 2 or 3 games a year. You get 160 “normal” games in the long slog of a season. Give me some 2 nights a year where I can get excited about a game that doesn’t seem to want to end.

Even better if they are back to back nights...I was 7 or 8 when this happened and I’ll remember it until the day I day:

https://www.astrosdaily.com/history/19890603/

 

 

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I was 8 and was at the 22 inning game.  My dad's work had a group outing with families invited where we got to ride the company bus to the game.  I was not happy when the group decided to leave after 11 innings.  Some bullshit about babysitters or something.  I sat up front and listened to the game along with the bus driver on the radio for the hour ride back to where everyone parked to catch the bus.  Then we listened for another 20 minutes on the ride home.  Then I turned on the radio in my room but fell asleep before it was over.  I had to find out the next day about Hamilton coming in to pitch and how Caminitti broke his bat over his knee after striking out before Raffy eventually came through with the game winner.

 

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6 hours ago, Bartles said:

Those long games can cripple a team for days, especially the pitching staff. I'm not wild about the runner on 2nd, I would actually prefer letting it be a tie after the 10th inning.

This is where I’m at. I feel like after 12 you could just call it a tie and move on. 

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2 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Watching Aubrey Huff regurgitate the same talking points on saberstats that I’ve been saying for years was disturbing on a visceral level. I need to step back and re-evaluate some things.

Come to think of it, Helobious and Aubrey Huff have never been seen in the same place at the same time.

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1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

You could.

but you’d also be a communist. 

162 of these fucking things lol. How many games are even tied after 12 innings. I don’t know, we allow it in the NFL and we don’t seem to make a big deal out of it. Ties aren’t that bad lol. We hardly even think about them until they start to positively/negatively affect your division or wildcard standings.

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Ties are complete slaps in the face to everything about the nature of competition. It’s basically saying this game didn’t remotely matter at all and you just wasted these last 4 hours entirely. Maybe the snowflake lets all get a trophy crowd loves ties, but in life you should go at something until you succeed or fail. 

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9 hours ago, Helobious said:

Ties are complete slaps in the face to everything about the nature of competition. It’s basically saying this game didn’t remotely matter at all and you just wasted these last 4 hours entirely. Maybe the snowflake lets all get a trophy crowd loves ties, but in life you should go at something until you succeed or fail. 

holy shit something I finally agree with this dude on

Ties are fucking stupid.  

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23 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

I hate this almost as much as Manfred hates baseball. 

 

What's going to make this even worse is that every game I've seen where this rule comes into play, the leadoff batter in the 12th sac bunts the runner to 3rd.  Should have just started the inning with runner at 3rd and 1 out.

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For the first two weeks of the season, teams will be allowed a 30 man roster. The following two weeks, teams will have a 28 man roster, and then after that the normal 26 man roster will be in place the rest of the season. MLB is, however, removing the restriction on how many pitchers can be on the active roster.

Teams will be able to designate 60 players who are eligible to play — that will consist of the 40 players on the 40 man roster, together with 20 “taxi squad” players.

I’m cool with all that. 

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