- Call more strikes, not like Eric Gregg where if its the width of his fat ass its a strike, but just a bit wider.
- Call pitches slightly above the waist a strike. They emphasized this for a couple months, then went back to anything above the belt is a ball.
- Don't let batters step out after every pitch
- Make pitchers throw in the allotted time. There is a rule for this but seldom enforced.
- Limit conferences between pitchers and catchers. Thats what pre game meetings are for. 2 mound visits by manager/coach and pitcher is gone. There should be a number for mound visits by position players.
The biggest is calling strikes. Make these guys swing the bat. Watch film of baseball in the 70's and 60's. Strike zone was much wider, actually it was the zone as described in the rules. Letter high was called a strike, corners were called a strike.
Keep these fucks in the box. Every game is on television, and these pricks milk it for all its worth. We don't watch you because you are adjusting your gloves for the fifth fucking time, stay in there and swing the bat.
I'd limit the times you can step out of the box per plate appearance to once. I'd limit the time between the pitcher gets the ball back or gets the ball before he has to step on the rubber to maybe 10-15 seconds, and he can only step off twice per PA. Granted he could throw to first to regain his composure if men are on base, but he is risking a throwing error going over there. I think this could speed the game up quite a bit.
I know this would never happen, but they need to do something about the commercials, they are getting WAY too long.
One thing that I think would really make a manager earn is money is only allowing 2 pitching changes per inning. There is NOTHING worse than a pitcher coming into a inning, warming up (taking forever) being pulled after giving up a hit, getting pulled for another pitcher, he walks a guy then a lefty comes to bad so a lefty specialist has to come in, then he is pulled when the next right hander comes to bat. Hopefully the right hander gets some guys out because if he gives up a few more hits you're going to see another pitcher coming in. It's BS.
Being a Yankee fan and watching Torre his last couple of years there, I swear you would see 4-5 pitching changes a game, countless mound visits a batter or two before each pitching change.
Baseball is my favorite sport to follow out of the big three, but it is the hardest to watch.
I know this would never happen, but they need to do something about the commercials, they are getting WAY too long.
One thing that I think would really make a manager earn is money is only allowing 2 pitching changes per inning. There is NOTHING worse than a pitcher coming into a inning, warming up (taking forever) being pulled after giving up a hit, getting pulled for another pitcher, he walks a guy then a lefty comes to bad so a lefty specialist has to come in, then he is pulled when the next right hander comes to bat. Hopefully the right hander gets some guys out because if he gives up a few more hits you're going to see another pitcher coming in. It's BS.
Being a Yankee fan and watching Torre his last couple of years there, I swear you would see 4-5 pitching changes a game, countless mound visits a batter or two before each pitching change.
Baseball is my favorite sport to follow out of the big three, but it is the hardest to watch.
