Baseball season is just under two weeks old… Are you tired yet? For a sport
which can cite the speed of the game as one of its major detractors, the 2014
season has already seen developments come to light to call into question whether
the game needs to be sped up.
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replay on select plays, allowing managers to challenge contentious calls, has
added yet another stall tactic to the great summer spectacle. Naturally, two
weeks in, a pattern has emerged. Many organizations have employed or utilized a
“video coach” whose job it is to keep an eye on a monitor when close plays come
about and to double-check whether the right call was made. In order to give
managers better odds of winning challenges, a trend has now emerged where
skippers saunter out to the umpire to discuss the call while awaiting a signal
from the bench to decide whether or not the play is “challenge-worthy”.
Sometimes it is not and the game proceeds. Sometimes it is and more time is
spent actually reviewing the play in question. So, whats the solution? Well,
according to a report from ESPNs Buster Olney earlier this week, one MLB
executive believes seven-inning games would help get the games done in roughly
two-and-a-half hours. But is that really the best way to speed up the game?
Solutions have been pitched before, however. In 2007, the MLBs official rules
were altered to reduce the maximum amount of time a pitcher was allowed between
pitches without runners on base. Under these rules, a pitcher was allowed no
more than 12 seconds between pitches (down from 20) with the bases empty. The
penalty for exceeding that time limit is an extra ball added to the batters
count. Still, games clock in regularly at north of three hours. So, is the
seven-inning game a viable solution for Major League Baseball? Changes have been
made in the past to alter the quality of the game both on- and off the field
including the advent of the live-ball era, the lowering and raising of the
pitchers mound and – most notably – the restructuring of the Leagues substance
abuse policy in the wake of the “Steroid era”. Speaking of which: Wouldnt a
switch to seven innings be a clever way to asterisk the records that Major
League Baseball is hesitant to recognize? “Sure, Barry Bonds is the all-time
home run king… but that was during the nine-inning era.” What do you say? Would
you be in favour of just heading home at the seventh-inning stretch? As always,
its Your! Call.
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Al Jefferson is happy he didnt make the All-Star game.The B.C. Lions are very
close to a deal to bring DT Khalif Mitchell back into the fray, and a deal could
be completed Friday, according to TSNs Vancouver reporter Farhan Lalji. It was
reported last month the player was in talks about a possible return to BC. The
defensive tackle was releaseed by the Toronto Argonauts in March to pursue NFL
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