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Joe Biden closed the first night of the Democratic National Convention late Monday evening, or early Tuesday morning on the East Coast. The Dems didn’t want him to be the starter with all the bright lights and eyes focused on him. Say it ain’t so, Joe!
It would be even worse if he were a Major League Baseball pitcher. MLB remembers when starters used to be stars and wants to make them great again.
How do they propose to do that? They want anyone who starts on the mound to pitch six or more complete innings.
Why wouldn’t they trial balloon that idea out loud during a season that has seen more pitchers shut down for surgery than ever? MLB leadership has a fever again. Don’t catch it.
Tommy John on line two.
You’d think they have as much chance to institute this rule as Joe Biden has of getting reelected right about now.
But it is the MLB. Remember, the designated hitter rule was adopted by the American League in 1973 and by the National League in 2022. In other words, it was so good in the AL that it only took 49 years to implement in the NL.
Joe Biden was but a freshman Senator in 1973 at the tender age of 29. Just half a century later he was President and the NL had its DH.
Keep hope alive.
Ever diligent to prevent injuries or arm fatigue, MLB would of course make a few exceptions to the mandatory six innings. An injury would be acceptable to take out the starter. If he reached a hundred or more pitches he could exit too. Finally, if the starter gave up four or more earned runs he could shower early.
Thoughtful. It’s thoughtful except a great source tells BBR that the game has changed greatly with GMs green lighting managers to instruct starters to empty their tank early and often and let the next man up pick up the ball. Why force a hundred pitches or six innings?
Should MLB senior management have term limits? Should US congressmen? Does a Cub play in Wrigley Field?
Control. The pitch clock is working so well, ailing arms aside, what next? Let’s eliminate creativity in getting the other team out. Tampa Bay pitching backward says hello.
We need stars and we need them now. Take Kamala for example. Please take Kamala.
Soon they’ll decide to juice the ball with more elixer than Biden ever got before any speech. Homeruns will be back in style.
They’ll call it “Ballz over Walz,” or something like that.
Keep pitching. Like the DNC, someone late into the evening might still be watching.
The six-inning starter idea is a swing and a miss and should not see the light of day.
What’s weird, not like JD Vance weird, is that Joe Biden’s last pitch was almost in the light of day.
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Engage. Enrage. Enjoy.
This post was a hit in the Walz.
….no pain, no gain!
Ballz over Walz is appropriate for the game but not for a soldier wanna be. And yes, we should have term limits on any public service office. In business T. Boone Pickens once set an example for the golden rule. “He with the gold, rules”. If the person made the money, they can make policy.
You see he made money. Lots of it. Yet Nasty Nan Pelosi got rich from her policy selling and favor mongering. Several decades and too many Botox injections later, she doesn’t know when to quit. She claims to have “run” Joe out of office for the good of the campaign.
So baseball wants to make rules and adopt policy that benefits the casual fan. Can congress and the rest of government do the same?
Nancy only does good work. She doesn’t have good work done always. Some ideas have given way to gravity. And the gravity of this election is upon us.
Meanwhile baseball’s marketing remains as in touch with the consumer/fan as KMart is/was to theirs.
How about the speech from Goodfall Nevin Dudsoon from the great state of California and Lovely Maxine Rainy Walters never saw a camera I didn’t like last night — That’s good TV
A comment so nice you sent it twice.
How about the speech from Goodfall Nevin Dudsoon from the great state of California and Lovely Maxine Rainy Walters never saw a camera I didn’t like last night — That’s good TV
We’ve assigned a very new member of our staff to watch and report back with great caution. So far we’ve been left in the dark much to our desire.
Nevin Dudsoon-well done. He’s slimy at best.
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