New pace of play changes

Couperin47

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The pace of play stuff is stupid but whatever, the extra innings change... call it Blernsball, call it whatever you want, it has ceased to be baseball ....baseball was inherently the sport that DID NOT USE OR NEED A CLOCK and was played by one organic set of rules...way to go destroying the essence of the game.
 

Over Guapo Grande

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The pace of play stuff is stupid but whatever, the extra innings change... call it Blernsball, call it whatever you want, it has ceased to be baseball ....baseball was inherently the sport that DID NOT USE OR NEED A CLOCK and was played by one organic set of rules...way to go destroying the essence of the game.
Dave Koza and Marty Barrett nod in agreement,
 

strek1

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The first two I have no problem with. Putting a runner in scoring position in an effort to end the game quick however makes me want to puke.
 

LeoCarrillo

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They probably should just accept ties but likely see this is as upping the young fan experience. It also obviously signals that MLB doesn't want to overtax its assets being groomed in the bushes. And that outweighs the trueness of the standings of any minor league. Which is understandable. (Again, for the least damage to true standings, they oughta just adopt ties.)

But it raises a question that I think is interesting, which I'd pose to minor-league enthusiasts who perhaps live near minor-league teams and regularly attend games and follow the squad with some emotional attachment.

If this gimmick sullies W-L and thus standings and thus the playoffs and year-end results (which it almost certainly does), how much different is it than the arbitrariness of call-ups throughout the year knocking a good A, AA or AAA team down a peg?

I guess I'm wondering about the psychology of the minor league fan that maybe has a first-place AA team they root for, which then loses two monster 21-year-old superstar bats and now isn't that good. Is that a bummer? Doesn't that sorta scuttle standings every year? Why is that okay (maybe it's a fun part of it, an element of chance, I don't know) but yet the goofy runner-on-second thing is an abomination?
 

Kenny F'ing Powers

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Unreal.

So, enforcing a 24 second clock and holding players accountable - which from all the research I've seen, will basically fix the pace problem - is too intrusive at the MLB level.

But changing the entire way the game is played if it's tied at the end of the game? Fuck it!
 

dbn

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The first two I have no problem with. Putting a runner in scoring position in an effort to end the game quick however makes me want to puke.
Unreal.

So, enforcing a 24 second clock and holding players accountable - which from all the research I've seen, will basically fix the pace problem - is too intrusive at the MLB level.

But changing the entire way the game is played if it's tied at the end of the game? Fuck it!
You traditionalist curmudgeons need to accept that change is inevitable. I bet you don't even like this work of true genius: