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How to revolutionize baseball

I'm gonna go ahead and steal a post idea from the jbox and go with my own set of new rules in the effort to revolutionize baseball.

  • Re-allow the spitter. You can use whatever substance you want, but you have to hold whatever substance it is in your mouth. So if you want to use vaseline, you have to wear it on your teeth. You can use an emery board as long as you can somehow file the ball without actually taking the emery board out of your mouth. If everybody's doing it, then let's legalize it. Like sweet mary jane.
  • Play fewer games. I don't mean just go down to 148 or something like that. I want to see every team play every other team in their division twice. Then I want them to play the teams in other divisions in the league exactly one time. Then I want another 5 games devoted to playing games based on formal challenges issued during the preseason. Like the Padres could formally challenge the Tigers and if the Tigers had the balls, they'd better accept, or else it would be a PR nightmare. How many games would that be? Like 20? That's perfect. Play them once a week and drop the rosters down to 12.
  • Make the even numbered batters in the lineup run around the bases clockwise instead of counter-clockwise. It's up to the fielders to know which base will force which out. Only one batter per base. Imagine the possibilities on double steals! It might be well within strategy for two runners to both try to steal second at the same time just in the hopes that the fielder can't tag them both and one of them ends up in scoring position.
  • The world loves painful groin humor, right? Put high powered magnets inside of the athletic protectors of the fielders. Then, provide a random number of baseballs with magnetic cores to the game. Nobody knows which balls will be forced towards the jocks of unsuspecting players, but once that ball's in the game... oh the hilarity!

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If you ruin
enough Tigers with your magnetic balls would they then be excused for their "lack-of-sack" on formal challenges?

by ABY on Oct 23, 2006 8:02 PM PDT reply actions  

This is what happens...
This is what happens when Dex goes without Padre baseball. 15 days after the final out of our season and he's already lost his mind.

Two words I NEVER want to hear: Commissioner Dex.

Let's have some fun out here! This game's fun, OK? Fun goddamnit.

by Drama on Oct 24, 2006 6:51 AM PDT reply actions  

What if the batter can choose to run
in either clockwise or counter clockwise.  So it's never a force out at first (or third).  

I think these ideas are genius.

by jbox on Oct 24, 2006 10:37 AM PDT reply actions  

oh my
I take a break from here to go lick my Padre wounds and this is what has happened to you Dex? Man..you are doing worse than me. I swear I still get teary-eyed when I look up at my Padres calendar at my desk.

I am sorta watching the playoffs - rooting against the Cards at every turn and obviously sucking at it big time. Really impressed with the Tigers team though. But - just "sorta" watching. Not making a point of getting home in time for first pitch or anything.

Christina

by Christina on Oct 24, 2006 4:24 PM PDT reply actions  

...but what if....?
If the Cardinals win those whole damn thing, I guess I will feel a little better about our 2006 Padres.

On to 2007!  I got a call from the Padres tonight about my 2007 season tickets.  The baseball gal and I are getting the half-season "A" package with two seats in Left Field Upper Box, sec 226.  Let's go Padres!

Got a flight for tonight and I'm ready to ROLL! All my homies checkin fo' me and I'm ready to GO!

by TheRevRun on Oct 24, 2006 9:33 PM PDT reply actions  

Got my renewal in the mail yesterday
I don't have the heart to throw it out yet. I had the A plan these past three seasons. Sigh...it's hard to give that up but there is no way we can make it to that many games in 2007. And yet - I cannot bring myself to throw away the offer. Give me strenghth!
Christina

by Christina on Oct 25, 2006 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions  

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