Pace of Play and Long Games

[veryzer]

<!--quoteo(post=88769:date=Apr 14 2010, 07:07 AM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ Apr 14 2010, 07:07 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=88765:date=Apr 14 2010, 06:36 AM:name=mindbodyspirit)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mindbodyspirit @ Apr 14 2010, 06:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=88749:date=Apr 14 2010, 12:02 AM:name=bz)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bz @ Apr 14 2010, 12:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I just hate checking the baserunner over and over and over and over...

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Yeah~ I especially detested Rick Sutcliffe's 3rd to 1st double "fake out" that he rarely even threw for. I'm surprised nobody's brought up Steve Trachsel here, often called the "one man rain delay" during his career.

There are things about the game that eat time, sometimes annoyingly. Just the same, I am a purist and wouldn't change a thing. If a 15 year-old has the attention span of a gnat from years of X-Box and Nintendo addiction, I don't want my game ruined to make him/her happier. If they want fast baseball, let them do it on the X-Box (which has an AWESOME game). The real MLB deal should remain professional baseball, not some sanitized, sped up hybrid of the game.

I also favor bringing back brush-back pitches, more lax "balk" rules, and banning the DH. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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I brought up Mike Hargrove. Hargrove was "The Human Rain Delay."
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I thought Nomar was the human rain delay.

[Runnys]

I specifically remember Trachsel being called "The Human Rain Delay."

As for the pace of the game, one simple rule change would speed games up a LOT. Call the strike zone as it is written in the rules! If the umps started calling knees to midway between the chest and waist then games would speed up. You wouldn't have to do anything else IMO.

[jstraw]

<!--quoteo(post=88773:date=Apr 14 2010, 07:13 AM:name=Runnys)-->QUOTE (Runnys @ Apr 14 2010, 07:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I specifically remember Trachsel being called "The Human Rain Delay."

As for the pace of the game, one simple rule change would speed games up a LOT. Call the strike zone as it is written in the rules! If the umps started calling knees to midway between the chest and waist then games would speed up. You wouldn't have to do anything else IMO.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I'm pretty sure that since Hargrove retired when Trachsel was in high school, Hargrove had the nickname first...but hey,I could be wrong.