MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

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I guess they technically don't in the standings, but the idea of a tie is still honored by getting a point for an SOL.


The fact that baseball games can theoretically go on forever until there is a winner is one of the main things I love about the sport. Ties are dumb. The only reason Emily would want to make any changes would be purely economical.

 

Emily?

 

I think the biggest reason to make a change is that it puts teams that play in those games in a competitive disadvantage for days particularly with respect to bullpens.

 

The second biggest reason is that most games are played at night and super long games go until ridiculous hours.</blockquote>
 

My answer to both is that's the nature of the beast.

 

The first is, again, a wonderful element of baseball. It's part of what makes a 162-game season have ebbs and flows. The occasional long-inning affair throws a team off for a little while. I like that. And I have no desire to see any more bullpen coddling, which is an aspect of today's game that I don't like. I prefer fewer relievers throwing more innings. Maybe a couple more games like this each season will make managers re-think the way they use bullpens.

 

As far as the long hours go, so be it. It's not the worst thing that I fall asleep before the game ends. But to tell the truth, since I was a kid, I've been fascinated by the prospect that in theory a game could go on all night. I would friggin' love to be see a game that started at 7 pm end at the crack of dawn.

 

Now, the Emily thing, which I corrected in 10 seconds (and really makes me fearful of your response time, Kid Flash), I attribute to the iPhone being to smart for it's own good. It changed "MLB" to "Emily" because it thinks it knows every goddamned thing.