Ways to Revolutionize Baseball

by Dex on Nov 20, 2008 10:46 PM PST

OK. I got some good ones this time. Or maybe not. Who knows.

Replace all of the grass on a baseball field with dirt from the basepaths and then replace the basepaths and warning track with grass. The grass might be slightly tougher to run on for the offense, but if a ball isn't caught on a fly, it'll take much more creative bounces. Plus it would look cool, like a film negative.
Headsets and earpieces so that players and coaches don't need all of those ridiculous hand signals. Imagine the precision timing of a double-steal or how much more creative pickoff attempts would be if they were coordinated via voice command.
No longer require players to play "both sides". In other words, 9 defensive players and 9 offensive players. It works for football. Wait, I've done this one before, right?

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I like the first two

The third one I don’t know. would the roster still be at 25?

by jbox on Nov 20, 2008 10:55 PM PST reply actions

Gold Glovers vs. Silver Sluggers

And make it a traveling show 162 times a year, like the Harlem Globetrotters.

What about the guys that were both? (Joe Mauer, Grady Sizemore) They don’t play. That’s what they get for being selfish and not playing on one-side of the game.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Nov 21, 2008 5:51 AM PST reply actions

they could play

But other players would look at them like they were these super amazing athletes.

by Dex on Nov 21, 2008 6:25 AM PST up reply actions

Another thing

The music for each squad’s video package would be:

Silver Sluggers: The theme from The Natural for the first 30 seconds showing the players walking to the batter’s box and/or tightening up their batting gloves, and then slow-motion swings of home runs. And then it segues into Saliva’s Click Click Boom as it shows a lot of sped up coverage of baseballs being hit into the stands, rabid fans, home-plate high-fives, and finished by a rapid-fire montage of home run swings.

Gold Glovers: Anything from 3 Doors Down, likely the Kryptonite song. All while there are slow-motion clips of outfielders diving for baseballs, second basemen jumping as high as they can to snag flares, and first and third basemen either diving on the lines, or reaching into the crowds. Lots of clips of players high-fiving each other, shocked looking fans, and a few frustrated batters expressions after being robbed.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Nov 21, 2008 6:42 AM PST up reply actions