I think they should move the fence back to 650 feet in centerfield just to see if Yordan could hit one out. They definitely should NOT ever put a flagpole and a hill out there. I was watching a little bit of the 1952 World Series game 7 and it's always strange to see hitters not wearing a helmet. Could you imagine digging into the batter's box against Walter Johnson without a helmet on? Reminds me of one of my favorite movie quotes. "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."
Baseball is a thinking man's game and that's what I like the most about it. I don't favor removing the thought element of it by forcing decisions in a matter of a few seconds.
Did no one in this forum watch a game prior to 1999? Every intense moment ever in baseball prior to the last 15 or 20 years was presented at the pace of what a pitch clock will dictate now. Go watch the Astros Mets game 6 from 1986 on YouTube. Hatchers at bat is about 3 hours and 2 minutes in. Just one pitch after another from Orosco, bam, get the ball back, get the sign, bam, get the ball back, get the sign, bam. Hatcher never left the box. All of this hand wringing is ridiculous. Somehow this slow pace that has infiltrated the game the last decade or two has fooled people i to thinking this is how baseball always was. Baseball purists that want to see baseball the way it was played in the golden age should be singing the praises of s pitch clock.
That "somehow" is showmanship. It used to be that a player got beaned if he took his time at the plate, went through a whole routine just to take the pitcher out. Now the modern era has it where throwing the bat 100 feet after a base hit is okay. I miss professionalism in sports, but tv rating amirite!
Dirden with 2 great plays in 2 days. I guess he's going to force the Astros to call him up sooner rather than later.
Throwing a pitch at someone is professionalism, but throwing a bat that hits no one is unprofessional. Interesting take.
Baseball has the dumbest etiquette. I just remember when you got into fights with football players, you just duke it out. You got into a fight with a baseball player, they whole team comes with bats. At the neighborhood high school, the baseball team all drive jacked up pickup trucks and parks on the grass instead of the parking lot even when there are spaces.
Yeah I only watch for the nut grabbing and **** pulling. Maybe you haven’t watched the Astros the past 6 years, but I find playoff baseball excruciatingly stressful. I don’t need that experience artificially accelerated.
My comment is not. I'm fine with the changes and welcome shorter games I just wonder what affect it'll have on some moments in the post-season.
His slug the last couple of years was around .450 average, which is more than good enough. Power isn’t just home runs. But also, I’m not sure of this, but I suspect he was rail thin his first 2 years in minor league ball. As he fills out his frame, I think it’s reasonable to expect him to hit more homers. Yordan hit like 1 home run all year in cuba when he was 17. Players grow up and develop power. (Not saying he’s going to be Yordan ****ing Alvarez, more like a hybrid of Willie Mays, Jeff Kent, and Barry Bonds)
You are referencing a 4 hour 16 inning game that likely wouldn't have even happened with the new rules. More than likely a ghostrunner would have scored in the 10th or 11th to end the game. In 2021 the longest game was 13 innings, the first time since 1901 there was not at least one game that lasted 15 innings or more.
True. Thank God. I got a little carried away with my dislike for the ghostrunner. So many Changes for an oldtimer like me.
4 hour game went 16 innings. Game 5 Astros-Dodgers in 2017 was 5 and a half hours long in a 10 inning game. I am ecstatic about the limited mound visits, limited pickoff throws, pitch clocks, no shifts... Though it is being artificially manufactured by outside forces with these rule changes that were not around 35 years ago the end result will be baseball the way I grew up on it.
