Here is how you fix baseball. First institute a pitch clock. The time to study your opponent is BEFORE the game not during. And on that note, please adjust your jock strap and do ALL of your spitting BEFORE the game PLEASE for the love of GOD!! Oh and no more lead offs. IF you want to steal a base then fine. But do it from the base. Why? So we can eliminate the non-stop pitch outs to whatever base the runner is trying to get a lead off from. It's just boring and slows down the game. Also, require the batter to stay in the batters box the ENTIRE at bat. No holding up the stop sign to the ump so you can scratch your nuts and get a new signal or spit for the 100th time. (Some exemptions are obvious like HBP or getting out of the way for a runner coming home bc errant throw) Getting out of the box should mean an Automatic OUT!!! Finally limit the number of balls a pitcher can throw in the count to 3. Thats right. Three balls and three strikes. Removing that one pitch will go a long way to saving the pitchers arm AND save us all a lot of wasted time. Baseball should be fun. But the need to constantly strategize DURING the game has ruined it. Do your coaching and prep work before the game like REAL sports do. And adjust on the fly like all Major and REAL SPORTS. Could you imagine a basketball player placing the ball under his foot so he could scratch his nuts and spit every time he touches it??? RIDICULOUS how sad baseball has become.
Here is how you fix baseball. First institute a pitch clock. The time to study your opponent is BEFORE the game not during. And on that note, please adjust your jock strap and do ALL of your spitting BEFORE the game PLEASE for the love of GOD!! Oh and no more lead offs. IF you want to steal a base then fine. But do it from the base. Why? So we can eliminate the non-stop pitch outs to whatever base the runner is trying to get a lead off from. It's just boring and slows down the game. Also, require the batter to stay in the batters box the ENTIRE at bat. No holding up the stop sign to the ump so you can scratch your nuts and get a new signal or spit for the 100th time. (Some exemptions are obvious like HBP or getting out of the way for a runner coming home bc errant throw) Getting out of the box should mean an Automatic OUT!!! Finally limit the number of balls a pitcher can throw in the count to 3. Thats right. Three balls and three strikes. Removing that one pitch will go a long way to saving the pitchers arm AND save us all a lot of wasted time. Baseball should be fun. But the need to constantly strategize DURING the game has ruined it. Do your coaching and prep work before the game like REAL sports do. And adjust on the fly like all Major and REAL SPORTS. Could you imagine a basketball player placing the ball under his foot so he could scratch his nuts and spit every time he touches it??? RIDICULOUS how sad baseball has become.