New Baseball Rules

[godwulf]

Speaking of saving time, I remember hearing or reading somewhere that Don Drysdale used to sometimes just hit a guy that he wanted to put on base, rather than go to all the trouble of throwing the ball four times.

[Roady]

Make batting gloves illegal and it will probably make the game go twice as fast. How many times do that have to adjust those things anyway?

[godwulf]

I think that maybe the limit on the number of time-outs that can be called will have a serious effect on the guys who think they have to unfasten and refasten their batting gloves after every pitch - even if they didn't swing. After a guy gets called out on strikes a few times because he ignored the fact that the umpire disallowed his request for time, the team Manager is likely to toss that guy's supply of batting gloves in the trash.

[Titans74]

I'm not even a fan of instant replay, nevermind more rule changes.

[Buccaneer Madden]

Speaking of saving time, I remember hearing or reading somewhere that Don Drysdale used to sometimes just hit a guy that he wanted to put on base, rather than go to all the trouble of throwing the ball four times.

I heard that about Bob Gibson. I think the walk one is dumb but the rest heck yeah... way too much wasted time adjusting gloves and jerseys after every dang pitch.

[godwulf]

The best part about instant replay, in my opinion, is that teams are now allowed to show controversial plays on the Jumbo-tron - they used to get fined for that. I've seen it happen a few times recently where an umpiring crew will reverse a call on its own after New York has declined to...because everybody in the ballpark has watched it on the big screen from four different angles, in slow-motion, and knows the ump screwed up.