OT Goodbye Intentional Walk

There is an intentional walk once every two or three games.

They take roughly one minute.

If the point of this rule is to speed up games it is fucking stupid.

 

I doubt that the people who arrive late and leave early care one way or another how long the game is.

 

I bet hit by pitches would go up if they got rid of intentional walks.

 

Yeah, it's like do you want more scoring, or a shorter game?

 

They're not talking about removing the ability to intentionally put someone on, they're just making it procedural, where the team indicates that they're intentionally putting the batter on base, rather than the pitcher throwing four pitches to do it.

 

Thanks for the correction.

 

They should absolutely use illegally juiced aluminum bats for the home run derby. Let's see some 700 foot home runs!

 

I liked baseball better when it was in the movies.

 

"Are you saying Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?!"

 

I never liked the intentional walk in baseball or the intentional foul in basketball...I want to see a pitcher pitch to a great hitter...it's surrender for a less challenging batter...sucks. Imagine how many home runs Barry Bonds would have without the intentional walk. It's like Ali taking a dive fighting Frazier so he can fight an easier fight and win without a battle....wouldn't happen. I also want both leagues to make pitchers bat....never seemed fair to have one league's pitchers batting and the others not...has to have an impact on the world series

 

I'd rather both leagues had the DH. Pitchers swinging futilely (except the one in a thousand pitcher who can handle a bat as well as a below average shortstop) isn't terribly exciting. Automatic outs don't make the game more fun, IMO.

 

Push the pitcher's mound back 5 feet and everything else will sort itself out.

 

Faster pitching wouldnt make it more watchable. Its just a shit game to watch unless its live and you're in the beer garden. Lower the price of beer and i bet theyd get more viewers than pitching time limits.

 

I've always thought that intentional walking was a bullshit rule.

 

I disagree....if any player should get a DH it should be a catcher...he's got more gear to deal with and less time to go from offense to defense...actually I'm surprised how many poor hitters are catchers...I'd think they'd read pitches better...pitchers who have to bat tend to go to batting practice...and there are pitchers who can really hit the ball well. To further my point...both leagues should have the same rule regardless....

 

As far as I'm concerned, they can speed up baseball the most by just eliminating it and going straight to football and NBA training camp.

 

football.....yuck....the game where you have to huddle and discuss everything or get plays in your helmet speaker....the game that for 3 secs of play takes 20 minutes to get to the next play? FUCK FOOTBALL!!!! A coaches game....refs on camera more than players...takes 3 teams on both sides to perform offense or defense.....what a stupid, beer selling sport