Time is introduced to baseball

One Great Matrix · 03-21-2023, 06:04 PM

They're calling it "The pitch clock".

There's no time in baseball!
Yes there is!

Happy 2023

Syd Thrift · 03-21-2023, 06:17 PM

Time was very much a part of baseball from when the game started to be played and into the 1930s and then still in increasingly smaller pockets until the 80s. It’s only the past 40ish years or so that baseball has been played almost universally without a clock (Pittsfield, because of the weird way the field is set up, has to take a 20 minute break mid game but it’s not quite the same thing).

Amazin69 · 03-22-2023, 12:02 AM

We already have a thread for this. (Arguably two.) Could a mod please merge?

And the fact that (allegedly) the umps will now instruct players to move with alacrity still has nothing to do with how baseball, almost alone among sports, isn't over until the game is finished playing, no arbitrary time-keeping giving an incentive for stalling and delaying (and soccer goalies falling prone on the ground to "stop" shots they already have in their hands and then sloooooowly rising and "considering" before putting the ball back into play). No running the ball into the line to kill the clock, no passing the ball not to get a better shot but to bleed the clock, no freezing the puck against the boards.

You have to get 27 outs to win. No "time" element involved. There's a reason some of us loved this game, once upon a time. (Pun unintentional.)

03-21-2023, 06:04 PM	#1
One Great Matrix All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 1,782	Time is introduced to baseball They're calling it "The pitch clock". There's no time in baseball! Yes there is! Happy 2023 __________________

03-22-2023, 12:02 AM	#3
Amazin69 Banned Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Palmetto Pride! Posts: 4,218 Infractions: 0/4 (4)	We already have a thread for this. (Arguably two.) Could a mod please merge? And the fact that (allegedly) the umps will now instruct players to move with alacrity still has nothing to do with how baseball, almost alone among sports, isn't over until the game is finished playing, no arbitrary time-keeping giving an incentive for stalling and delaying (and soccer goalies falling prone on the ground to "stop" shots they already have in their hands and then sloooooowly rising and "considering" before putting the ball back into play). No running the ball into the line to kill the clock, no passing the ball not to get a better shot but to bleed the clock, no freezing the puck against the boards. You have to get 27 outs to win. No "time" element involved. There's a reason some of us loved this game, once upon a time. (Pun unintentional.)