MLB 2020: We'll Play Ball, I Guess.

[Kepler]

Universal DH. Purists howl.

"Purists" = people with respect for the game.

Creeping meatballism advances again.

TELL ME THERE IS NO MAN ON SECOND BULLSH-T!!!!

 

[Kepler]

Let's just go full men's league and add designated runners for catchers, too.

Kickball. Invisible baserunners.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

Let's just go full men's league and add designated runners for catchers, too.

Beer kegs in the dugout?

 

[Kepler]

Beer kegs in the dugout?

< Wade Boggs has unretired >

 

[JF_Gophers]

"Purists" = people with respect for the game.

Creeping meatballism advances again.

TELL ME THERE IS NO MAN ON SECOND BULLSH-T!!!!

- Doubleheaders have reverted to 9 innings.
- Extra innings have reverted to normal. No more starting with runners.
- Universal DH now means the Mets can never legitimately win another World Series. Since Kep thinks it's not real baseball.

 

[Kepler]

- Doubleheaders have reverted to 9 innings.
- Extra innings have reverted to normal. No more starting with runners.
- Universal DH now means the Mets can never legitimately win another World Series. Since Kep thinks it's not real baseball.

- Good
- Good
- Fact :-(

 

[Kepler]

I'm going to admit to Creeping Meatballism of my own.

If anyone tries to claim I said this, I will deny it.








Spoiler:

I liked 7-inning double headers.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I saw an interesting proposal. Keep the DH for the starter but once that person leaves the game, DH goes away.

It gives the best of both worlds. No need to run out a shitty hitter every third inning and preserves the NL's double-switch, etc. moves we all love.

 

[Kepler]

I saw an interesting proposal. Keep the DH for the starter but once that person leaves the game, DH goes away.

It gives the best of both worlds. No need to run out a ****ty hitter every third inning and preserves the NL's double-switch, etc. moves we all love.

Huh.

That's... actually decent. I wish they had thought of it as a compromise 20 years ago.

 

[Kepler]

LOLderps.

Major League Baseball players who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus won't be allowed to travel into Canada to face the Blue Jays in Canada and won't be paid for those games.

 

[dxmnkd316]

LOLderps.

God bless Canada.

 

[WeAreNDHockey]

I saw an interesting proposal. Keep the DH for the starter but once that person leaves the game, DH goes away.

It gives the best of both worlds. No need to run out a ****ty hitter every third inning and preserves the NL's double-switch, etc. moves we all love.

The Atlantic League used this rule during the 2021 season. No idea if they are using it this season. They partner with MLB on some of these experimental rules and I think in at least one very recent season they banned shifts and required 2 infielders to be stationed on either side of the second base bag.

As a purist, I will never be in favor of the DH, but since baseball should always have a few quirks to its personality I could live with the DH rule that they used in the Atlantic League. They called it the Double Hook rule.