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Originally Posted by Caporegime
I thought I did, and that reason is even alluded to in one or two of the articles I linked to above, hence your "strawman" jab was totally unnecessary.
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It's all in good fun. Don't take any of this too seriously.
You are quite correct in that the "the sky is falling!" attitude towards baseball has a long and storied history in the sport.
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Originally Posted by Caporegime
I had you pegged for a traditionalist. I mean, one would figure that a guy who can produce accurate minor league schedules from 1930's would be less amenable to some half-assed, shuck and jive gimmick to shorten the length of baseball games.
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It is hard for me to get worked up over something that would only apply to the lowest level of minors where there are no fans watching and the intent is to help with player usage matters. I doubt you'd see this rule being used in the higher minors, let alone the majors, where the MLBPA would have to approve it.
Arguably, folks should be just as irked that the minors play 7-inning games in a doubleheader rather than true, proper 9-inning games. But no one cares since the majors use 9-inning games.