MLB Off-Topic

[Sportsforever]

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I'll guess Bonds.

Yep...I think that's pretty crazy how a suspended game like that impacts "official" stats. Bonds was called up end of May and had over 200 PA's (plus 10 HR's) by the time he took part in this game, but this single that he hit in this game is in the record books as his "first" hit and RBI.

[CMH]

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I like the trivia question better if it's:

Which player picked up his first career hit after already having 50 (or whatever the count was) MLB hits to his credit?

I just know people would look at me like I'm stupid. And that's how I want my trivia.

[BigOscar]

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It should be like 8 seconds, what kind of tomfoolery is this? After it happens, immediately go to the umpire to challenge or let it die. This waiting for the guys upstairs to confirm if the runner at 2nd base picked his heel up off the bag on a steal attempt goes against everything I wanted in replay.

Yup, the replay challenge is being miss-used because of the time allowed to look at tiny details. It was supposed to be there to get rid of shockers, not to find that some guy beat the throw but happened to leave the base by a milometer for a nanosecond while being tagged. It just wastes a bunch of time and slows the game right down, to give people out on technicalities, rather than actually get rid of the occasional bad decision that instantly you can see was wrong.

[SPTO]

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Sad news today as Jerry Remy announced over Twitter that he has a cancer relapse. I hate the Sawx but I have a great respect for Remy.

Get better Rem-Dawg!

[Blzer]

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Sources say MLB wants a 30-second time limit for managers to make replay decisions according to Jayson Stark.

This NEEDS to happen.

Isn't it already 20 seconds?

But yes, it should be immediate. They should not be allowed to go to a phone either.

I miss the days of players complaining to the umpires about a bad call. Now if someone is caught stealing 2B, the player points to the dugout immediately instead. Seems baby-ish.

... which sounds kind of weird, because complaining would technically be the babier action.

[Perfect Zero]

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Sources say MLB wants a 30-second time limit for managers to make replay decisions according to Jayson Stark.

This NEEDS to happen.

What's wrong with just getting the call right? Have a fifth umpire in the booth who can overturn an obviously bad call immediately and be done with it. No stepping around, no clocks or challenge flags or other BS, just get the call right.

[Majingir]

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They should make it like NFL. You have until the next play to challenge. So you might see a quick play(or in this case a quick pitch,pickoff, or quick base stealing attempt(in this instance,the runner might lean abit more with intention of going back to his base,but leans enough to get the pitcher to step off the rubber or throw to the base)) happen to prevent the other team from challenging.

[kehlis]

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They should make it like NFL. You have until the next play to challenge. So you might see a quick play(or in this case a quick pitch,pickoff, or quick base stealing attempt(in this instance,the runner might lean abit more with intention of going back to his base,but leans enough to get the pitcher to step off the rubber or throw to the base)) happen to prevent the other team from challenging.

MLB doesn't have a play clock like the NFL does. The problem right now is that the batter or pitcher can easily stall until the manager gives the okay to go ahead or asks for a challenge.

The current verbiage of the rule says the manager needs to inform the umpire as soon as possible but that is obviously too ambiguous.

[Majingir]

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MLB doesn't have a play clock like the NFL does. The problem right now is that the batter or pitcher can easily stall until the manager gives the okay to go ahead or asks for a challenge.

The current verbiage of the rule says the manager needs to inform the umpire as soon as possible but that is obviously too ambiguous.

That's the point though. If one side stalls, then the other side can force them to do a game action which then eliminates the challenge window. On offense,the team can try stealing a bag. On defence a team can throw a pitch,pickoff or step off the rubber.

Pitch clocks would help too. Not anything drastic that hurts pitchers, but at least eliminate the unnecessary 30+ second waits between some pitches(I think official rule was 12 second or something, MLB average is 15-20? So 30 sec clock eliminates the unnecessary stuff.

[kehlis]

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That's the point though.

Well obviously, adding a 30 second clock to make a decision would be the equivalent to a play clock in the NFL lol.

[areobee401]

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What's wrong with just getting the call right? Have a fifth umpire in the booth who can overturn an obviously bad call immediately and be done with it. No stepping around, no clocks or challenge flags or other BS, just get the call right.

Hey man I'm all for what you propose. I just want things to move along faster when going to replay. The entire process takes too damn long. The again, I'm fine with human error in sports so maybe I'm not the best guy to be speaking on replay.

[TripleCrown9]

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Decided to watch Game 7 of the World Series and man, the intro was FANTASTIC.

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[Speedy]

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What's wrong with just getting the call right? Have a fifth umpire in the booth who can overturn an obviously bad call immediately and be done with it. No stepping around, no clocks or challenge flags or other BS, just get the call right.

Waiting for a manager to take 2 minutes before challenging to be followed up by what seems like 10 minutes of review just zaps all the entertainment of the moment.

Things need to be done quick...manager gets 20-30 seconds to think about it, take 3-4 looks at replay, umps make a decision and we move on.

[SPTO]

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Anyone watch Baseball Tonight this evening? (2/15) Smoltz and Leiter had a GREAT conversation about young pitchers and how they're basically set up for long term injury as young as youth league baseball. I tell ya, I can listen to these two talk about pitching, usage and the art of being a good pitcher for hours on end.

[redsox4evur]

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Anyone watch Baseball Tonight this evening? (2/15) Smoltz and Leiter had a GREAT conversation about young pitchers and how they're basically set up for long term injury as young as youth league baseball. I tell ya, I can listen to these two talk about pitching, usage and the art of being a good pitcher for hours on end.

When talking about the youth pitching, what exactly were they talking about the usage of these kids? Meaning pitching in 4 games and going for around 150 pitches over a 2 day weekend. Or something different. I know Little League has rules in place where a kid can't throw more than 6 innings a week and around 80 pitches per game. But they need to account for these kids that are playing AAU ball. Because I know for a fact that some leagues don't care if they are playing for these AAU teams and pitching 2-3 times every other weekend.