[RUCdaze]

Sorry folks, but I disagree with all of you. I think MLB is doing everything they can to kill the sport. Give me the baseball I watched as a kid in the 1950's when baseball was real baseball.

[Rainger99]

I wish they would have a rule for playoff games to start before 8 pm on the east coast. Really hard for kids and seniors to stay up for the finish. Kind of like having tennis finish after 2 am!!

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

I wish they would have a rule for playoff games to start before 8 pm on the east coast. Really hard for kids and seniors to stay up for the finish. Kind of like having tennis finish after 2 am!!

Wish they would start by 7 to make it easier to watch the whole game

[OhioBuckeye]

Well I guess I just thought all the money schools make (millions) & then they raise school tuition, pay coaches hundreds of thousands of dollars. Who’s profiting from this, the school or the kids? To much going to schools for the same education they got 20 yrs. ago. Yea, maybe I didn’t know that sports was more important than the kids education. Just my opinion!

[tophcfa]

If they want to speed up the games why not simply make it against the rules to adjust one’s batting gloves, spit chewing tobacco, and scratch one’s balls?

[Rainger99]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Wish they would start by 7 to make it easier to watch the whole game

I was in Hawaii during the baseball playoffs one year. It was great! The games start in the afternoon and I could watch the end of the game - even though it went into extra innings!

[murinace@aol.com]

I liked the longer games! I took my wife and two kids to citifield. We sat in left field party deck (food good and beer cold) game lasted only 2 hours. $500+parking. Haven’t been back

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by murinace@aol.com

I liked the longer games! I took my wife and two kids to citifield. We sat in left field party deck (food good and beer cold) game lasted only 2 hours. $500+parking. Haven’t been back

Apparently the vast majority of us think the games are running much too long. Way back when we were kids ran about 2 1/2 hours nowadays 4 hours is hard to sit for

[ElDiabloJoe]

I am apparently in the minority, I am saddened by the new rules that intend to "speed up" the game. Baseball is a mental, strategic battle between the pitcher and the batters. It is the last great sport (pastime!) that doesn't have time limits. No shot clocks, play clocks, time clocks. The last great unrushed past time that is wholly American. The event and its intricacies are all that matter - not the time. MLB is capitulating to the networks and broadcasters who all want to be able schedule more profitable programming as the innings wane on and people turn off the TV to go to bed.

I hope the new rules are quickly scrapped.

[Garywt]

They need to get rid of the stupid ghost runner in extra innings.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Garywt

They need to get rid of the stupid ghost runner in extra innings.

Agree totally

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I attended what was the time, the longest game in MLB history. Red Sox and Yankees at Fenway. The Yankees pitcher got injured in the first inning. The relief pitcher was allowed full warm up time. Then both teams changed pitches quite often. Add in a rain delay, extra innings and we left the park at about 1:30 am.

[Rainger99]

In 2019, Stephen Strasburg was the World Series MVP. He then signed a seven-year, $245 million contract extension. He has only made eight starts in the last three seasons and just one this season.

[Davonu]

Originally Posted by Garywt

They need to get rid of the stupid ghost runner in extra innings.

I can respect what you say, but it does get rid of those ridiculously long extra inning games. A necessary evil imo.