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Guest
2 hours ago

If they want to help the hitters, move the mound further back from home plate.

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yankeesblog
7 hours ago

The Golden At-Bat has to be the most colossally stupid idea ever to be proposed.


EJ - If you want to watch basketball watch basketball. You're all wet on this one.


This ridiculous idea would cheapen dramatic comebacks by making them more common. And that's if it even works as expected.

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yankeesblog
7 hours ago
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You should see the comments on Jayson Stark's article on this in The Athletic. Uniformly negative.

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fuster
8 hours ago

Free: The Golden At-Bat!

JoeBlogs

Hi everybody,

So, everybody’s been asking me to write something about this wacky Golden At-Bat rule that Commissioner Rob Manfred is out there floating. So I wrote something


Our idea comes from Brilliant Reader Rob in New York:

There are a variety of things that are being talked about out there. One of them—there was a little buzz about it at an owners’ meeting—was the idea of a Golden At-Bat.

  • Insanity level: 10/3

  • Viability: 6/9

  • Better game?: 2/9

Ah, you can see we have two different numbers listed. We’ll get to that.


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But do you get it? I don’t. Because the specifics beyond that are entirely uncharted, and I imagine have not even been…

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Alan B.
Alan B.
2 hours ago
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Rob Manfred needs to resign as the Commissioner of Baseball ASAHP. MLBPA needs to be ashamed of themselves that has given this man executive powers to do rule changes as he sees fit. I get that his idea is to fit baseball into a 3 hour window, and he will do whatever it takes. But this is also the man, as the GC of MLB at the time that gave umpires total job security, no matter how bad they are at their job, or their actions during the game, and has done nothing to fix it in the 9 years he has been the actual Commissioner.

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