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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
If anything, the games wrapping up much more quickly might help the league to do away with the ghost runner rule, and if I'm really being a purist here, I'd waaay rather have an enforced pitch clock and no ghost runners instead of extra innings slowing back down to a crawl with the extra guy on 2nd to open every inning.
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Yeah, I'd take this too.
Only thing is, the longer anything is done the more entrenched it gets. As much as I dislike it, I don't think we're ever getting rid of the ghostrunner. And the same will go for this. If there's anything we don't like about it we better hope they adjust it this season. To their credit, they did tweak a few things at the end of ST, but nothing to do with end of game.
And I don't believe them for a second when they say that now that players are used to the clock that we won't see a pitch clock violation end a game like it did that Red Sox-Braves ST game. Sooner or later, it'll happen.