Make steroids legal and remove the salary cap. If anything there should be a price floor, not a cap. As long as steroids exist, players will use them. I find this ironic, newspapers reported that Bonds took undectectable steroids... so baseball's response is to test for these undectectable substances. Brilliant.
Crums, you are a revolutionary! Along the lines of Che, and Fidel. Anyways, I think baseball should get rid of their gloves and play barehanded sort of like they do in cricket.
i meant luxury tax, not cap. That's what happens when your writing this and taking a **** at the same time. JK JK LOL LOL ;0
Im not complaining about the tv timeouts. I'm just saying coaches call a lot of timeouts. TV timeouts are "Officials Timeout" Those are different. I need a break too once in a while. JVG for example. He calls a TO. 1 minute later his team hasnt made any adjustments and he calls a second TO. Same thing with teams failing to in-bound the ball right the first time. I think its just a waste of 5 minutes right there. Just play the damn game.
Baseball does not employ any TV timeouts. All of the commerical breaks in baseball occur within the context of the game - between innings and, at times, during pitching changes.
A basketball game STILL takes about half an hour less than a baseball game even with all the timeouts. A 9 inning baseball game can take up to 3 1/2 hours if it's high scoring. Baseball is just slow by nature, and most baseball fans prefer it that way. Now an American football game (gotta distinguish that for Swoly ) REALLY drags along. They cut to a commercial break after everything...punt returns, kickoff returns, field goals. The two minute warning really pisses me off...It's basically an idiot's timeout to make up for a team that had to waste a timeout because they made some stupid mistake calling a play and don't have any left.
actually, my favorite games are when the pitchers are on, mowing guys down and the game cruises with a rhythm. when oswalt is on, games go very quickly. i complain about AL games with the DH that go on forever.
A true pitcher's duel is pretty rare these days. When there is a 1-0 or 2-1 game, it still drags on towards the end with the pitcher throwing to first and the batter stepping out of the box to try and throw the pitcher off his rhythm. God forbid the pitcher lets a couple of guys on in a close game, or the catcher will come out to the mound and "settle him down". Don't even get me started on managers bringing in a reliever to face one friggin' batter just because he's left handed or right handed. While I'm on a good rant here, does the pitcher need warm up pitches before EVERY inning? Managers always have these strict pitch counts to protect their multi-million dollar arms, yet the pitchers throw probably 40-50 unnecessary pitches every game.
OOPS. Dang, I stirred a pot here about the timeouts... I meant to say that Baseball is actually the only sport that has the players doing something (the 6 pitches) while the timeout is going on. Sorry about that, fellas. Oh, yeah, and I hate that Winner Pitcher or Loser Pitcher deal. Why? Is it the Pitcher against the whole team? Why doesn't the team get the win only and do away with the entire Pitcher duel thing? It's not like they're only pitching against each other. I really don't like that. Someone argue a good point against it, please.
But that still doesnt say much because baseball is an untimed game. 48 minute game takes 2 1/2 hours...Thats too long for me
OK, so a game that takes 2 1/2 hours is too long simply because the game clock runs 48 minutes, but a game that takes 3 hours ISN'T too long because it doesn't have a clock? That makes perfect sense...
every now and then a post (seemingly randomly) makes me laugh out loud at my desk. sometimes, a co-worker will walk over thinking i'm looking at some funny video or something. that's when i just have to say something like, "yeah, i think this guy should be posting in the D&D..." the co-worker just shrugs their shoulders and walks away thinking i'm even more insane than i really am. thanks, moe.
Perhaps his point is that only 60 minutes or so of that 2 1/2 hours is involved with things actually occuring on the court (since the clock is stopped during FTs and inbounds plays, game action lasts longer than 48 minutes) while in baseball, generally 2 1/2 hours of the 3 hours is involved with things going on, on the field.
Most of the time, the pitcher's performance directly impacts the outcome of the game. Aren't wins and losses also a statistic for soccer goalies?
Oh, and as for "TV Timeouts", in the NBA they're called official timeouts, and they are only taken if a team has not called a timeout up until that time. That's in Section VII of the official rules. The timeouts at the end of the game do get annoying, but I think there was a rule change to address that issue this offseason...
The time between innings seem to be able as long as some innings sometimes longer Hell the Time between batters can be ardenous Rocket River
