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athleticsnation.com - 14 days ago

Rules That Need To Be Changed

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Speaking of umpires, umpires need to enforce the rules rather than either making them up ("No, that's only a strike when the count is 3-0") , inventing them ("Ah, that's the 'neighborhood play' as found in section...um, section...well it's the 'neighborhood play'") , ignoring them ("You ...

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detroit4lyfe.com - 11 days ago

Let's Re-Write Some Rules in Baseball

— detroit4lyfe.com — Gold Glove voting is a joke (more) Let's Re-Write Some Rules in Baseball

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Two mound meetings and you have to change pitchers
Circling The Bases — [image] That's one of the three proposed rule changes Nico of Athletics Nation makes this morning. He's not just talking about manager visits: catcher and infielder pow-wows would be limited too. His reasoning on that one is that conferences in every other sport are limited by the number of time outs and natural breaks in the action at the team's disposal, so why not baseball too? Not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand baseball's lack of a clock makes the time out analogy inapt. On the other, man, I hate those mound meetings. Why not give an advantage to teams ...

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