Better than baseball but still boring.
And yet, still better than soccer.
Better than baseball but still boring.
Would you watch?
1. Every Inning Counts.
The team that scores the most runs in an inning gets a point.
The first team to five points wins the game.
The inning is over once the home team takes a lead or three outs are recorded on the home team.
2. Two Hour Time Limit.
No inning will start after the two-hour point. If a team has not reached 5 points, the game will go to a Showdown Tiebreaker
3. No Stepping Out.
Batters cannot step out of the batter’s box once an at bat starts. If batter steps out at any point, it’s a strike on the batter.
4. No Bunting.
Bunting Sucks. Enough Said.
5. Batters Can Steal First.
If a pass ball or wild pitch happens during any pitch of an at-bat, the batter can take off to first.
6. No Walks Allowed.
If a pitcher throws the fourth ball it becomes a Sprint. The hitter will take off sprinting to first while the catcher has to throw the ball around to every defensive player on the field before it becomes live. The hitter can advance to as many bases as he can before the ball becomes live. The ball does not have to touch the catcher or pitcher.
7. One on One Showdown Tiebreaker.
Each team picks one pitcher and one hitter to face off. The defensive team only has the pitcher and catcher on the field. All other fielders are off the field. If a hitter puts the ball in play, he has to score and make it home to get a point. If the ball is put in play, The pitcher is allowed to chase the ball and throw the ball to the catcher for a play at the plate. If a pitcher strikes him out or gets him out before scoring, he doesn’t get a point. If the batter walks, he can take second base and the hitting team will bring another hitter to the plate.
First team to reach 5 points wins. If the score is tied – the first team to keep the other team from scoring wins.
8. No Mound Visits Allowed.
Let’s keep the game moving. No mound visits from the coach, catcher or any other players. Hype your pitcher up from afar if needed.
9. If a Fan Catches a Foul Ball, It’s an Out.
Why not let the fans get in on some of the action?
and were drowsy and needed a nap . . . . .Honestly, I used to love baseball. It was the perfect sport for an era when you had 3-4 channels to choose from, and all the other options sucked.
and were drowsy and needed a nap . . . . .
With all these crazy rules, why not let batters chose which way they want to round the bases? If you want to head to 3rd and go backwards to score, that could also be interesting.
Baseball has to decide if they want to make changes to chase after casual fans that go to the park for the experience rather than the sport, or to hold onto the fans they have that love baseball the way it was. They keep making little changes every year to 'speed up the game' that only serve to agitate the few fans they have. No one is watching a game hoping is gets over soon. That's ridiculous. You're either not watching because you don't like baseball, or you're enjoying watching, or you're napping with the tv on. But you're not hoping it gets over soon.
Baseball needs to either go big and make lots of big changes, to where the game is almost unrecognizable, to chase after all these hypothetical fans, or embrace what they are and stop pandering to the narrative pushed by those that are never going to be fans anyway.
Baseball has always been a regional sport, people care about their team, but aren't going to sit down and watch a random game between two random teams. Individual teams need to take it upon themselves to make their product entertaining, regardless of the set of rules they're playing under.
The idea of stealing first, as explained in the video, would only take place on passed balls or wild pitches.As someone that does like baseball, every rule but 4 and 9 is decent, and 9 is really dumb. Not sure about hitters stealing first either l, especially as a right handed hitter would have to run across the plate with a pitch on the way. Also bunting is great, and would serve to speed up the game further. Two hour time limit is unnecessary and uncompetitive. Just make the games 7 innings. That said, I think the games fine as is. They’ll continue to work at speeding up the game.
I was going to say, leave baseball how it is and maybe start this as a new sport/league. I'd watchJust call up McMahon to start the XLB and keep this **** out of real baseball.