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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Is the solution the tennis serve shot clock? What the penalty? A ball? Then two balls?
An aside, the Savannah Bananas are trying a new style of baseball
* No Walks..on ball 4 the runner takes off, the other team has to throw the ball to all of the other players on the field. Batter goes as far as he can
* No stepping out of the batters box once you step in
* No visits to the mound (just yell when you want to swap pitchers)
* you win an inning by having more runs, first to 5 innings wins
* fan catches a foul ball, out
Games are taking just over 90 minutes.
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No this isn't reasonable for MLB. Like Cali said, that's a different sport, and it sounds like a really cheesy sport to be honest.
Changing baseball is easy relative to every other sport. It has an amazing base to work off of and sooo much opportunity to shave off minutes. MLB's problem is they are traditionalists. In their eyes everything that is there now must be there for a reason.
I mean, literally ONLY focusing on a time clock for a pitcher to throw the next pitch could shave off an hour on most games, and would take no more effort than just placing the time clock in the game. That's incredible and its easy....and they won't do it until the sport starts dying and it's too late.