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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
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A team would do this once and then MLB would pass a rule against it the next offseason (if they didn't already interpret an existing rule - for instance the delay of game rules - to catch this loophole in the first place). Like, this exact thing happened in the NFL in the late 1980s when the Bengals and Bills were running the no-huddle offense and the Seahawks used their nose tackle Joe Nash to fake injuries so they could get different personnel on the field. I don't see why this would be some kind of game-bending issue.
I do like the idea of dumping, say, half the TV breaks as we move into an era that isn't all about television anymore. I do think that baseball will be very, very slow to adopt this, as the US model is you show the game, then you have a 90 second break, then you show the game again. I agree that that's increasingly a less and less viable model (and frankly even in its heyday everyone at home used those 90 seconds as bathroom / food replenishment / looking up stats in the encyclopedia breaks) but, well, nobody ever accused baseball of not hanging onto traditions for traditions' sake...