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Then why not eliminate the chalk lines on a football field? There would be much more 'human element' involved if you just let a line judge call in-bounds or out-of-bounds based on where he believed that line should be. Same thing with the goal line. Get rid of it. When you're within ten yards of an imaginary line 10 yards from an imaginary line centered on the goal-posts, TOUCHDOWN!
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The problem, as everyone who has worked in or for a corporation knows, is that if you make it easy to fire workers, workers will be fired arbitrarily for reasons having nothing to do with job performance. Trying to root out 'deadwood' is pointless: you will ALWAYS have a percentage of "the worst" workers; and you will never actually root out the ones you should.
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Rules against sign stealing maybe?
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"MLB teams must designate every player on the active roster either as a pitcher or a position player ... Those designated as position players are unable to pitch unless it is extra innings or their team is ahead or trailing by more than six runs when they take the mound." I found it on the internet so it must be true. Another example of a stupid unnecessary rule.
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They have no rules about the set of defensive players.
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Did it somehow make you forget his great hitting before the break?
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You're right about that. I seem to remember there was an app or u-tube or whatever showing real time tennis shots by professionals near lines. It was impossible! Probably a similar one for balls/strikes.
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How is it simpler than baseball? (You have difficult line calls on nearly every point; time rules; distracting of opponent rules; Hawkeye solved the major issues almost overnight). Other than balls and strikes (which can be easily fixed by technology), the vast majority of baseball calls are obvious.
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Yes, judgment calls like holding, pass interference, or touch fouls in basketball. Same with any contact sport. But tennis has been helped immeasurably by Hawkeye (now the only meltdowns against officials are by pathological whiners and psychos like Kyrgios and other recent retirees). But if computers can do it quikly and efficiently, go for it. (How boring are hitters whining about every call that doesn't go their way). Also, arguing with officials should never be considered a traditional part of a sport. Recently had a AA game ruined for me by a belligerent a-hole yelling at an ump for 4 innings for a call he (of course) got right. Time to get that out of the sport.
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Except, Max, umpires are graded based on how their calls reflect what that invisible box is.
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I was talking about everything in life generally!
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The problem, as athletes in all sports point out constantly, is that after opening day, no one is ever 100%.
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I just can't wait for the thrilling replays used to determine if a fielder's toe was a millimeter onto the grass! Now THAT'S baseball!
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Everyone misses the way things were twenty or more years ago.
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That doesn't distinguish it from most other Fridays ... or any other day of the week. (I'm too old and nerdy to have seen the show that quote comes from.)
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It's hard to remember clearly, but I don't recall EVER thinking I was high enough.
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Agree completely, as would most rational people (which does not include .220 hitting lefties or MLB administrators).
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He was being blamed by some for not hustling or running out grounders, but he was clearly under orders not to do so (I believe Cora said as much in one of his pre-game interviews.)
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So you would like to go back to the original idea, which was that 1B 2B and 3B would be positioned right on the bag? Runners can be called out by hitting them with the ball--like Dodgeball. Also, there should be no balls and strikes--another 'innovation' of the late 19th c., and if allowed, walks should count as hits? All these modern innovations have ruined the game.
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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34551389/major-league-baseball-competition-committee-vote-rules-changes-friday-eye-quickening-pace-play-sources-say Ok, the pitch clock is great. But if I remember right, the anti-shift argument was driven by some .230 hitter who felt he was being deprived of a .240 average. The shift is actually one of the few really innovative things MLB has done, and it's both interesting and effective. You want more hitting?--narrow the strike zone. But having an umpire check alignment every play, then having infielders run around to re=position themselves then having YET ANOTHER replay review to make sure no one was a millimeter or so across the line--this is idiotic. Let the damn defenders play where they want.
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Devers hasn't been 100% for a while. And wasn't he hobbling even before going on the IL?
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The only skill a manager has to have as far as I'm concerned is giving a reasonably entertaining daily interview with NESN or whoever it is. I just like the sound of that voice at 6:45 each evening. Francona was the best; Cora close behind. Of course I have no idea what they actually say, and doubt that it has any bearing whatsoever on whether the team wins or loses.
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I'm sure Bill Lee had many outings competing with that! (I believe he was vocally promoting the chance of a 20-hit shutout.)
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Wasn't there a flagpole, in play!, in CF at Fenway years ago?
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Hey, Fred, and you too 700, they've won 5 of their last six! Ok Ok tonight they suck. But aren't we used to that? I believe it was 1988, and I distinctly remember kicking back happily thinking I could relax for the summer, simply rooting for the RS to end .500. Cool. Baseball was fun! Then they went on that insane 20-game winning streak (well, they lost one I think). Serenity gone, anxiety back.
