no one wants to watch a 15 inning normal season game that ends 2-1, the networks wouldn’t even usually broadcast the whole thing unless it was like yankees redsox
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It’s not a ghost runner. The runner exists in the physical world.
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Meh, all the stats are computerized now so it wouldn’t be hard to separate the stats generated from the golden batter thingy. I think it sounds too video gamey. What’s next, the fans get to vote for when it is used?
They already have this ability
It’s called a pinch hitter.
regarding golden rule
what happens if he gets on base but then it’s his turn in the lineup. Original hitter goes in his place? What if he drives him in? Can he hit a homerun and officially score two runs?
rip the few weirdos still using scorecards.
I’m good with the runner on 2nd. Not in the playoffs of course but if things aren’t settled after 9, it’s time to speed things up.
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I would strongly argue it makes extra innings far more exciting and dramatic - a single scores most players not named giancarlo stanton or 2 sacrifice plays will score, or some combo of a steal + sacrifice. This puts tremendous pressure on the defense and creates a lot of natural tension thats resolved either by one pitching staff throwing an incredible inning or an offense getting a very big hit.
MLB.tv and a VPN? Probably not ‘legal’ in the sense that it’s against their ToS, but it’s not a pirated stream and you’re not gonna need one of these Biden pardons.
I’m fine even in the playoffs. Basketball, football, chess, hockey, and soccer all have truncated overtime periods, and the latter two even change how points are scored and tallied in OT.
If you don’t want free runners on 2nd base, try harder to avoid extra innings.
Hockey 3 on 3 overtime is fantastic, but hockey understands that it has made a compromise to save time and thus has a special category for overtime losses. You get one point for a loss in overtime or in the shootout. I’d be okay with baseball adopting a similar rule. 2 points for a nine inning or extra inning win, 1 point for an extra inning loss, and 0 points for a nine inning loss.
You could just let regular season games end as ties.
or you could just let teams temporarily expand the pitching rosters for a couple of days if they have a game that goes more than 11 innings or multiple extra inning games in a week. but they prefer little league rules, in part, to appeal to an audience who is never watching to begin with. it’s OK if the game is difficult sometimes
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Shut your orange wedge cut by a soccer mom mouth!
My friend tried that and MLB kept banning the VPNs he used. You have to find a very obscure one.
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yea, like suzzer said, VPN alone is rarely enough. I am on the other side of this a lot for work and there’s a lot of techniques out there for geofencing other than simple IP address geolocation, including device fingerprinting, or even dumb stuff like billing information, that starts to feel a whole lot like unpaid work whenever I dig into circumventing it and far more work than it is worth, if I was gonna go that route I’d just pirate. I’m generally against pirating and breaking even minor laws online, just way easier that way, so radio it is for me.
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I actually wouldn’t mind this
No one wants to be there in the 14th inning when beer sales cut off at the end of the 7th or 8th.
so then leave. nobody cares. you only paid for 9 innings anyway
The NHL always awarded 1 point to both teams if the game ended in a tie. The league added the additional point to the OT victor after they eliminated regular season ties.
Crap. I’m about to dump Spectrum, and a few people online said they use VPN with MLB (it did sound too good/easy to be true). I’m not paying $100/mo for DirectTV Streaming