Atlanta Braves 2 Out Magic: Could that Dynamic Part of Baseball Change?
By Dan Horton
Why Stop Here?
Anyway, back to the article. A friend of mine said this today about the article.
So when a team has the lead in football, they should get 3 downs, not 4. A basketball team with the lead should get an 18 second shot clock instead of 24. When you have the lead in nascar, you can not exceed 175mph. If you are winning golf, the pars on each hole decrease on shot. https://t.co/kYpA2Pyeey
— CoachGrindstaff (@ChandlerG1012) August 30, 2018
Hmmm … interesting, on all counts, indeed. Yes, baseball is the only one of the 4 major sports to not have a time limit. It was one of the last sports to jump on the replay bandwagon (which is still flawed).
I was willing to at accept experimentation of a pitchers clock in the minor leagues. But somethings are so fundamental to history, you can’t change them. And it’s not even about can’t or won’t, it’s about whether or not you should change it.
It’s been 1, 2, and 3 outs for almost 150 years, not 1, 2, and eh, you have a lead, so you only get 2 chances to try and score. You’re done, my turn to hit … YAYYYYY!!!
It’s like we’re 6 again in our friends backyard.
You’ll be at the plate and you let a center-cut lollipop go by and not even swing it. It’s called a strike. Then, you yell out at the pitcher and catcher and say, “nuh-uh … I never swung the bat. It’s not a strike, it’s a ball”.
That is what this is.
Tom Hanks’ Jimmy Dugan would be rolling over in his fictitious grave right now. There’s no crying baseball? With this, the crying is already assumed!