re: Small ball baseball=four corners basketball

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I'm not really going to call out Ross on his error...although it was a play he should make...it was a tough get on that ball for sure and a tough angle on the throw.

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That is what will happen fielding bunt after bunt. Katz comes off the bag to field it or Jones catches it they don't score. It is what happens in small ball. No reason to bash anybody.

What gets me is we are a MUCH better hitting team than UCLA and the NCAA and TD Ameritrade took our advantage away.

If they decided to extend the base paths 10 feet small ball would end and that wouldn't be right either. I say let's just go to wood bats and play ball. I believe wood bats would be better than the current bats for hitters. (I heard Bertman say we need to change the ball to the ball minor leagues use. There is something about the seams that is different and restricts the ball.)

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What gets me is we are a MUCH better hitting team than UCLA and the NCAA and TD Ameritrade took our advantage away.

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I think Plutko and more importantly our impatience with him took that advantage away from us.

On that field I bet UCLA wins 3 or 4 games out of 10. The field is to their advantage and style of play. It's a bad match up for LSU. We win 9 of 10 at The Box.

The style of baseball displayed this weekend is killing the excitement of the game. I'm losing interest because of it. Everyone is held accountable for their mistakes except pitchers. Plutko threw 3-4 bad pitches that should have been HR's but were deep fly outs. The dead bats compensated for his mistakes. The Mississippi State closer throw a bad pitch at the end of the game and he should of paid the price. In both of those games, the enthusiasm would have been off the charts with a couple of dingers. They have completely taken dingers and in the gap triples out of the game and also have allowed Mendoza esque players to excel. I like the comment made about “how would small ball survive if we moved the bases back 10 feet”. It wouldn’t because it would take small ball away just like they took HR’s away.

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Personally I like games that are not 21 to 14 and take 4 hours, that was not baseball.

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Sure, but there's no need to go from one extreme to the other. A home run is now a novelty at TD, even on very well hit balls.

I never thought that I would see the day where more HRs were hit in the women's CWS than men's CWS

Its a BAD brand of baseball but PM is the only one complaing of the teams still playing..........

College balls have 1mm seams, majors/minors have .5 mm seams. Actually results in quite a bit less distance you can hit the ball.

Based on what I read and watched, if they were to change it to .5 mm seams it would result in an amount of homeruns between this years team and the 09 team even with the current era dead bats.

So I think personally it'll be a pretty good idea to give a lil back to the power teams and kind of even the game out right now. You see the NCAA take away the bats cause it wasn't translating to the MLB very well, I would say its the same thing happening to pitchers now with quite a few college pitchers with under 2.0 ERAs.

NCAA went too bat shite crazy with the bats and need to compensate to bring everyone back down to earth.

ETA: this was in reference to I B Freeman's post "I heard Bertman say we need to change the ball to the ball minor leagues use. There is something about the seams that is different and restricts the ball"

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The biggest thing with the seams is the larger they are the more movement a pitcher gets. With smaller seams the pitchers stuff isn't nearly as nasty so there would be more home runs from that alone.

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Also a factor.