Gino Frobel
Baseball is a game in flux as many cities are seeing struggling attendance rates and those cities and teams without the ability of getting corporate subsidies and purchasing of tickets to distribute to themselves face a precarious future. British satirist and comedian Andy Zaltzman is a piece of shit and prefers the British created cricket version that is primarily played by South East Asians because they feel like they now own the game of cricket. Andy Zaltzman and a man named John Oliver run a podcast and they continue to bash American baseball often on their program. Cricket though is like baseball and even more amazingly slow and boring as Americas pastime and if there is any grain of truth about baseball it is that is being seen more and more as an amazingly boring game.
We have a top ten idea though how baseball can be made faster and more interesting and perhaps stop the massive increase of critical aspects and questioning of the game by people like Andy Zaltzman on both sides of the pond. Zaltzman and Oliver bash baseball and are so pro-cricket because they are paid hacks for Pakistan and India and anyone listening to their programs should realize this is why these stooges are as big as they are nowadays. However baseball is sucking more and here are our ideas to improve the lame game.
10) Three foul balls and your out. There is nothing more annoying than watching a batter putting up constant foul balls at an at bat and is a time waster.
9) No batter shall leave the batters box and take practice swings while up at bat. Do this when you are in the on deck circle. Simple as that.
8) There should be no double plays or doubles. If you think you can make it to third on a hit then go for it. Maybe erase second base and contract positions on the field. Infield double plays are stupid as well and a rally excitement killer.
7) No more than two pitching changes in an inning. baseball needs to be sped up and not constantly having pitchers warming up during game and stopping what little action there is.
6) No pinch hitters. If you have to take out a hitter for someone else in a key spot why have that player even on the roster.
5) Get rid of 1st base and 3rd base coaches. Players need to observe as they run and make their own decisions as baserunner in this crucial part of the gam and not rely on some old dude .
4) Any pop up between infielder and outfielder automatic out. There should be no reason for a collision for a bad pop up weak fly ball by hitter.
3) No bean bags on pitchers mound. The amount of time pitchers waste picking this item up is insane and unnecessary part of the game.
2) First team to produce grands slam ends game in victory. This should be ultimate goal of game and will help speed up all games.
10) Automate umpires and fans. The technology exists to displace umpires and basically fans can just be cut boards as nothing is more aggravating these days tiring to watch a game than having distracted camera men show too much of the action of people in the stands. This is the real reason for ratings dip of the gam through the years. Umpires are already on their way out of the game
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