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Vols4us said:
100% agree.

I equate baseball rules to the rules of golf. Guess who changed a lot of the antiquated rules in the past few years and that sport has been around centuries longer than baseball. The ancient traditionalists hated the changes until they saw it brought fairness to the game and improved the pace of play while making it easier to understand for the average Joe. The pro tournament attendance has grown off the charts despite no Tiger being in the field. Part of it is no COVID mess. A bigger part is because people realize how much fun it is to follow in person now that everything moves along and is easier to understand. Who doesn't like to see 350 yard bombs off the tee by guys who stand 5'9" and weight 160 lbs.? Average fan sees himself in those guys.

If the most traditional sport ever can change the rules to adapt to changes and needs in the game - so can baseball. Just call a strike three and move on. If a baserunner wants to run, the game continues on. People don't come to see the stuff that makes no sense, they come to see hits, home runs, 100 mph fast balls, crazy change-ups, stolen bases and fantastic plays in the field. Nearly every pitch the batters step out to adjust gloves. There were no batting gloves for a hundred years. Make the batter stay in the box. If he steps out except for injuries, wild pitches, HBP's, and such voluntarily, call a strike. If the pitcher starts delaying, warn and then call a ball if they do it again. They added the infield fly rule to eliminate gaming that issue a long time ago. They do the automatic base on balls now. They can make the other changes that enhance the game and speed it up to make the strategy and skill the game requires be more interesting to the public at large. For example, instead of stopping the shifts, they need to work on the stuff that matters. Shifts force the hitters to get better at what they do or find something else to do with their lives. The diamond Vols are proving that up, why not MLB players? Yesterday, UF tried pitching away and shifting the D on our guys. So most of our guys stopped trying to pull the ball and starting going the opposite way with small ball. It worked. A couple of doubles and one HR, but the bulk of the runs produced were from guys getting base hits and walks.

Reintroduce the strategy and remove the chaff. Make baseball fun again.
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MLB figured out bc of analytics that they want homeruns and walks…. That striking out was better than hitting a ground ball…..They found out that they score more runs without all the small ball stuff…. Stolen bases…. Hit and run…. and bunting are becoming more and more rare.

MLB ending the shift didn’t have anything to do with the players and was more about making it more appealing to fans…. I agree that I miss the old style of baseball though.
 
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Jimmy Football said:
It is quirky.

It’s a leftover rule from a predecessor game. They didn’t realize how incompatible it was with the modern form of the game until catchers started dropping third strikes on purpose to turn 2-4-3 double plays. But instead of scrapping it like they did with a bunch of other obsolete rules, they inexplicably decided to keep it in and just make it inapplicable if first base was occupied with less than 2 outs.

So in short, it’s this little piece of a different game that managed to survive while everything else around it changed. So I can understand why some find it a charming little eccentricity, but it ain’t for me.
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Could you please weigh in on your thoughts about the infield fly rule just to change it up a bit? 😇🤔😈
 
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drvenner said:
It's not indefensible, lol. It's a rule either team can take advantage of and requires some hustle and attentiveness to exploit. Did it cost your favorite pitcher a perfect game or something?
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Lol, no. It’s just a nonsense rule that was based on rules that haven’t existed since the mid-nineteenth century. And I have fun arguing with people about it.
 
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Glitch said:
I live on the south side of Murfreesboro but somedays if the wind is right I can smell the dump. I can't imagine living on the north side within spitting distance of the dang thing.
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Drive by that dang thing everyday to work and some days it makes my eyes burn. Can’t imagine how those folks live there at Smelly Acres.
 
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Glitch said:
Summertime has got to be rough on that side of town.
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Wonder what the plans are for that area when it’s closed and where they plan on putting the next one?

Good time to propose my idea to shooting our trash (and radioactive material) to the moon. Maybe musk will listen
 
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UTProf said:
I need a new video game to pass the time between now and the season... Any suggestions? I like games like the Elder Scrolls, Red Dead Redemption 2, the Witcher 3, Fallout New Vegas, etc.
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Elden Ring. It’s hard and miserable but it’s open world, maybe even more so than the options you’ve listed.
 
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