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BASEBALL’S NEW RULES – WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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The shortened 60-game baseball season has spawned three rule changes designed to make it easier for players to get through a brace of games, including more doubleheaders and schedule changes due to the Coronavirus. National League teams are employing the designated hitter for the first time. Doubleheaders will be seven-inning games and extra-inning contests will begin with a runner on second base.
Oddly enough, some writers and observers of the game feel that these rules should be carried over to the next full season to make the game better and more efficient. But will it still be baseball as we have known it? We’ll take them one at a time. Let us know what you think.
(In case you’re wondering, Bill and I are traditionalists, so you can guess how we feel about the rule changes. -GL)
In the featured photo, we see the great DH, David Ortiz
Bill Gutman and Gary Livacari
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Welcome to the minor leagues.Both those rules have applied for some time there. The 7 inning Doubleheader for decades.
I am a traditionalist also. But, quite frankly the game is not traditional anymore in the analytical age. Games are too long as a result- dizzingly so at times. So, I say we start a new tradition .
I never thought I’d say that, but I’ll still the neighborhood kids to “Get off my lawn”.
I hate to admit it, but you raise some real good points…
I don’t like in extra innings that a runner is placed on 2nd base, in order to give the team at bat a chance to score a run in order to speed up the game. In my opinion I think that they should earn the right to win the game without doing that way. It might take longer and the game might be extended, but let them earn it.
I don’t like in extra innings that a runner is placed on 2nd base, in order to give the team at bat a chance to score a run in order to speed up the game. In my opinion I think that they should earn the right to win the game without doing it that way. It might take longer and the game might be extended, but let them earn it.
sorry about the duplicate comments, my mistake.
I am traditionalist, too, I think. I don’t like the DH, never have, though I have been an American League follower for years. Don’t like placing a runner on second base in extra innings, etc. What the heck is that all about!! Don’t like seven-inning games. Say what!!!
This is starting to sound like pro football or recreation league rules!
BTW: Go Orioles! Go Ravens!
I’m on your side!