Red Mosquito

The goal is to shorten games?

No shift = more offense = games take longer.

Change my mind.

pick-off attempts are a part of "disengagements" and a pitcher only gets two per plate appearance.


stolen base attempt are going to go through the roof.

Bammer wrote:The goal is to shorten games?

No shift = more offense = games take longer.

Change my mind.

Maybe?

Maybe infield players will learn how to range better

I’d written off the Brewers, because I’d totally forgotten that there are now three wildcard teams.

Bammer wrote:The goal is to shorten games?

No shift = more offense = games take longer.

Change my mind.

The goal is to shorten games by removing dead time between plays. More offense = more action = more fun.

if they want to meaningfully shorten games, they need to employ a split-screen between live action and commercials. the amount of commercials where the games are stopped, combined with the increase in breaks, has had more of an effect on the length of games since all games started to be televised than anything.

Chris_H_2 wrote:if they want to meaningfully shorten games, they need to employ a split-screen between live action and commercials. the amount of commercials where the games are stopped, combined with the increase in breaks, has had more of an effect on the length of games since all games started to be televised than anything.

This is not the college football thread. This is the MLB thread.

edit: I'm aware he was already safe

Bammer wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:if they want to meaningfully shorten games, they need to employ a split-screen between live action and commercials. the amount of commercials where the games are stopped, combined with the increase in breaks, has had more of an effect on the length of games since all games started to be televised than anything.

This is not the college football thread. This is the MLB thread.

Yeah, that wouldn't change anything in baseball. Breaks between innings would still be the same.

philpritchard wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:if they want to meaningfully shorten games, they need to employ a split-screen between live action and commercials. the amount of commercials where the games are stopped, combined with the increase in breaks, has had more of an effect on the length of games since all games started to be televised than anything.

This is not the college football thread. This is the MLB thread.

Yeah, that wouldn't change anything in baseball. Breaks between innings would still be the same.

it’s necessarily just between innings (which you could shorten). more importantly, you could shorten the breaks for pitching changes (after the pitcher has already thrown 25 pitches in the pen, he doesn’t need another 10-15 pitches).

Chris_H_2 wrote:

philpritchard wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:if they want to meaningfully shorten games, they need to employ a split-screen between live action and commercials. the amount of commercials where the games are stopped, combined with the increase in breaks, has had more of an effect on the length of games since all games started to be televised than anything.

This is not the college football thread. This is the MLB thread.

Yeah, that wouldn't change anything in baseball. Breaks between innings would still be the same.

it’s necessarily just between innings (which you could shorten). more importantly, you could shorten the breaks for pitching changes (after the pitcher has already thrown 25 pitches in the pen, he doesn’t need another 10-15 pitches).

Backpedal much, there, Chris?

Fully agree though. The fkn guy already warmed up in the pen. Get on with it.

Bammer wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

philpritchard wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:if they want to meaningfully shorten games, they need to employ a split-screen between live action and commercials. the amount of commercials where the games are stopped, combined with the increase in breaks, has had more of an effect on the length of games since all games started to be televised than anything.

This is not the college football thread. This is the MLB thread.

Yeah, that wouldn't change anything in baseball. Breaks between innings would still be the same.

it’s necessarily just between innings (which you could shorten). more importantly, you could shorten the breaks for pitching changes (after the pitcher has already thrown 25 pitches in the pen, he doesn’t need another 10-15 pitches).

Backpedal much, there, Chris?

i'm not sure how that's backpedaling. i assumed that the first point was implied. but here we are . . .

Bammer wrote:Fully agree though. The fkn guy already warmed up in the pen. Get on with it.

bring back the bullpen carts!!

There's a possibility that the Pirates:

-Give up Aaron Judge's record tying/breaking home runs

-Give up Albert Pujols' 700th home run

ARRR..

Among the pile of ridiculous Judge stats, his lead over the next most dingers (about 20) is the craziest to me. Wow.

Bammer wrote:Among the pile of ridiculous Judge stats, his lead over the next most dingers (about 20) is the craziest to me. Wow.

He’s probably on some new untraceable PED that MLB is unaware of.

No love for Pujols here smdh.

Norris wrote:No love for Pujols here smdh.

He's on drugs