02-16-2021, 03:29 PM
I am a baseball fan, but games have become hard to watch.
I am not saying that there needs to be non-stop action, but there needs to be some major rule changes to speed up the game and make it more interesting to watch. It drives me crazy that the batter has to step out of the box between every pitch to adjust his batting gloves then the pitcher takes a full minute to go determine what pitch to throw.
Simply deaden the ball a little and put a clock on each. pitch. The "purists" act like it would be sacrilege to make pitchers hurry up a little, but that is ridiculous.
Any of you old enough to remember the "four corners" strategy that forced college basketball to adopt a shot clock? MLB has reached that point. The pace of the game is brutally slow. Especially when there is not even much action once a pitch is thrown. The ball is rarely put in play. It is either a walk, K, or HR and no one steals bases anymore because they are just waiting for a HR to score runs.
I am not saying that there needs to be non-stop action, but there needs to be some major rule changes to speed up the game and make it more interesting to watch. It drives me crazy that the batter has to step out of the box between every pitch to adjust his batting gloves then the pitcher takes a full minute to go determine what pitch to throw.
Simply deaden the ball a little and put a clock on each. pitch. The "purists" act like it would be sacrilege to make pitchers hurry up a little, but that is ridiculous.
Any of you old enough to remember the "four corners" strategy that forced college basketball to adopt a shot clock? MLB has reached that point. The pace of the game is brutally slow. Especially when there is not even much action once a pitch is thrown. The ball is rarely put in play. It is either a walk, K, or HR and no one steals bases anymore because they are just waiting for a HR to score runs.
