[Magdalen] World Serious

[Jon Egger]

One of the problems in baseball (not sure if just in the AL though) has
been the length of game.  They've shortened the length of time a batter may
use between pitches and would like to see all games under three hours.
I've watch a lot of really loooooong games at Kauffman and it can get cold
this time of year.  If we have to play into November in this WS, it will be
the longest season.

Grace and peace,
brud

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the craziest games in all of baseball was a 19.5 inning 4th of July
> extravaganza at Turner Field in Atlanta back in the '80s. That game
> featured not only several rain delays and a fireworks display at the end of
> it (at 4:30 am!) but a home run by a notoriously poor-hitting Braves
> pitcher, Rick Camp, whose usual hitting performance resembled the swatting
> away of an annoying insect. I had gone to sleep with the game on but woke
> up for that!
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > An hour of EWTN ought to be worth 2 of baseball at least. If he watches
> > EWTN during the baseball off-season, you should get to bank those
> viewable
> > hours for the spring.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I really hate the DH, though.
> > >>
> > > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> > >
> > > Well, with or without the DH, the game has changed considerably. The DH
> > > was adopted in a time when pitchers, unless they simply were having a
> > > terrible day, were usually there for 9 innings, except for the
> strategic
> > > choice of inserting a hitter for the pitcher.
> > >
> > > But nowadays, the controlling consideration of a pitcher is pitch
> count.
> > > pitchers just get yanked at 100 pitches, whether it be in the fourth
> > inning
> > > or eighth inning.  This is just as true in the National League as the
> > > American League -- the idea of puling the pitcher for a hitter in
> certain
> > > situations has become quite rare in the NL, as compared to the systems
> of
> > > 50 years ago.
> > >
> > > I'd challenge anyone here denouncing the DH rule in the AL to offer
> full
> > > disclosure: How many games per year have you attended during the past
> 20
> > > years? How many regular-season games have you actually watched on TV or
> > > listened to on radio -- start to finish, during the past 20 years?
> > >
> > > Heck,how many of you are aware that another feature of the modern game
> is
> > > to put even slightly injured players on the disabled list immediately
> and
> > > calling up promising rookies from the Minors to replace them for a game
> > or
> > > three?  Out Scranton Railriders  won their division this year, but got
> > > wiped out in the playoffs because the parent Yankee organization had
> > called
> > > up 5 of the best players to help them try to win the division?
> > >
> > > Like I  say, I don’t think that the antipathy toward the DH rule
> reflects
> > > the views of anyone who actually follows the game.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > PS Albert really hates it when I sit down to watch a game on TV, as he
> > > simply hates baseball, period. I tell him for every hour he has EWTN
> on,
> > he
> > > gets an hour of baseball. He's resigned to it.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Christopher Hart
> >
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> >
>