Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Accelerated scoring rules
The fans vote with their feet. The game started with a small crowd, and I'd like to see the estimate by the end (and on a school night). At some point, half of them left.? It's inertia to continue to play the game to the end. The fans voted that they didn't want to see it. It would be selfish(? silly?) of them to therefore say "hey, keep playing, and tell me how it turned out". No one walks out of a 4 hour opera, or a 5 hour Nadal/Djokovic match, but they will in a regular-season baseball game. Just admit that regular season (and school night) is simply different.
So, check your inertia (née tradition) at the door, and offer solutions to accelerated play. You can suggest allowing ties after 9 (or 10 or 12 or whatnot). You can suggest putting runners on base to start the inning. You can suggest reverting the runners left on base the previous inning back on the next inning. You can suggest starting batters with a 1-0 count.
What you cannot do is simply say "oh, it happens so infrequently, let's not worry about it". Well, if it happens so infrequently, they you won't mind if we put in special rules then.
Football does it, hockey does it, soccer does it. Again, if you are a traditionista, this thread is NOT for you. Your voice of inertial reasoning has been heard for 150 years, thank you. I'm looking for solutions. Everyone else can go work in Congress.
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