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Cranky old men unite! Speed up the game!
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:45 am
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:45 am
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Speak the truth, Frank! Let this be the first of hundreds of complaints from this season that baseball games take too damn long. It's not that I have a problem with more baseball, it's that most of this extra time is spent NOT playing baseball.
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Baseball would move along just fine if they'd only enforce a rule -- number 8.04, which is already on the books -- which says that when the bases are empty a pitcher has to deliver the old horsehide within 12 seconds of the batter entering the box. We just need to add a clause to that rule that the batter has to get into the box pronto and stop fiddling with his batting glove.
The worst thing that ever happened to baseball was batting gloves, because unlike all the other gloves in the world, which people just put on and forget about, baseball batters seem to be born with a compulsion to monkey around with their batting gloves. Batting gloves, to baseball players, are like texting to teenagers.
Speak the truth, Frank! Let this be the first of hundreds of complaints from this season that baseball games take too damn long. It's not that I have a problem with more baseball, it's that most of this extra time is spent NOT playing baseball.
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Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:48 am to Baloo
I feel like I don't know you anymore...
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:54 am to Baloo
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The worst thing that ever happened to baseball was batting gloves
I can't stand A-rod or Nomar or whoever fricking with their batting gloves either, but it's not even worth writing about.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:55 am to SCUBABlake
You don't know this is my pet topic? This is why I think Tony LaRussa is the Antichrist, for introducing us to 100 pitching changes a game.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:58 am to Baloo
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The worst thing that ever happened to baseball was batting gloves, because unlike all the other gloves in the world, which people just put on and forget about, baseball batters seem to be born with a compulsion to monkey around with their batting gloves. Batting gloves, to baseball players, are like texting to teenagers.
absolutely. i don't know if it's born from superstition or if it's purely aesthetic, but it's complete nonsense and needs to stop.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:58 am to Baloo
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This is why I think Tony LaRussa is the Antichrist, for introducing us to 100 pitching changes a game.
When Cecil Cooper was here with the Astros, 100 changes would have been a quick game.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:59 am to Rohan2Reed
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absolutely. i don't know if it's born from superstition or if it's purely aesthetic, but it's complete nonsense and needs to stop.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:01 am to Baloo
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Tony LaRussa is the Antichrist, for introducing us to 100 pitching changes a game.
And nobody is worse than Jonny Gomes in between pitches. I'll have to see if I can find a video. It's absurd.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:02 am to reddman
Nomar took so much damn time fricking with his gloves.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:02 am to Baloo
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You don't know this is my pet topic?
I do now.
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This is why I think Tony LaRussa is the Antichrist, for introducing us to 100 pitching changes a game
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:07 am to SCUBABlake
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And nobody is worse than Jonny Gomes in between pitches
Find Mike Hargrove on You Tube. His nickname was the Human Rain Delay.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:11 am to SCUBABlake
they have started to enforce it in college. Not sure of how much faster the games are, but I know I have seen a pitcher penalized for it.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:12 am to DEANintheYAY
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they have started to enforce it in college. Not sure of how much faster the games are, but I know I have seen a pitcher penalized for it.
I thought they straight up had clocks now.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:13 am to LSUFanNTX
Rafael Betancourt is the pitching version of the Human Rain Delay.
This post was edited on 3/31/11 at 10:14 am
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:14 am to Baloo
So you wouldn't like my idea to throw nine different pitchers each game, then.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:17 am to nuttie
you going to be in the thread tomorrow?Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:17 am to Sophandros
As long as the pitching changes were between innings.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:23 am to Baloo
Oh, well then we're cool.
Granted, the nine pitchers per game thing is just Johnny Wholestaff taken to the extreme.
What I REALLY want to see (and I think we talked about this a while back) is a team to go to a four man rotation, but with a group of extremely different types of pitchers. Oh, and one of those "pitchers" could be Johnny Wholestaff every once in a while.
Granted, the nine pitchers per game thing is just Johnny Wholestaff taken to the extreme.
What I REALLY want to see (and I think we talked about this a while back) is a team to go to a four man rotation, but with a group of extremely different types of pitchers. Oh, and one of those "pitchers" could be Johnny Wholestaff every once in a while.
This post was edited on 3/31/11 at 10:25 am
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:28 am to SCUBABlake
I will try and post if I can get a signal from the Ballpark!
Posted on 3/31/11 at 10:30 am to Baloo
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The worst thing that ever happened to baseball was batting gloves, because unlike all the other gloves in the world, which people just put on and forget about, baseball batters seem to be born with a compulsion to monkey around with their batting gloves. Batting gloves, to baseball players, are like texting to teenagers.
somewhere nomar just got gold chills
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