MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

[funkster]

Damn.

[Kid]

So there's been talk during and after last night's game about MLB changing the rules to limit the number of extra innings for regular season games to allow ties.  Maybe something like a game ends as a tie if neither team leads after 12 innings.

 

This may be blasphemous, but I think I'd be OK with it.  Games are nothing more than a coin flip at that point anyway.  It's way better than the stupid starting innings with runners on base idea.

[nakedman1664]

I'm cool with that, though I feel like it should be 14, maybe 15 innings.


It's a total crap shoot after that. Why else would Hendricks be pinch hitting with the game on the line?

[jstraw]

It's a interesting idea, since playing into the wee hours was never a thing when there was preominantly day baseball and games got called for darkness. The current reality represents changing one aspect of the game (lights) without adjusting  another (the lateness of completion).

[Kid]

Hi Runnys!

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

Fuck ties. You want ties, watch hockey.

[Kid]

You want ties, watch hockey.

 

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

I'm afraid that I have no idea what that means.

[Kid]

Content doesn't matter. It was a random whisper gif trying to casually inform you that hockey doesn't have ties anymore (which you may have known and your post may have been facetious).

 

Good jokes require this kind of explanation. 

[Butcher]

I didn't know hockey doesn't have ties anymore.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

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 MLB would want to make any changes would be purely economical.

[Kid]

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.

[Bricklayer]

Those types of games seem to be such anomalies that it doesn't really merit a rule change. 

[Kid]

Those types of games seem to be such anomalies that it doesn't really merit a rule change. 

 

They're more common than you might think.  The Cubs played 4 or more 13+ inning games in 3 of the last 4 seasons.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bricklayer" data-cid="312349" data-time="1494366410">
Those types of games seem to be such anomalies that it doesn't really merit a rule change. 

 

They're more common than you might think.  The Cubs played 4 or more 13+ inning games in 3 of the last 4 seasons.</blockquote>


Which is 2.5% of the schedule.