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Originally Posted by spartacus007
These rules are going to save what, 6 minutes in a 200-minute game? That's not enough for a casual fan to notice.
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If Manfred and the rest of what passes for the brain trust at MLB really wanted to reduce the length of games by an appreciable amount they'd more severely limit the time allotted between innings. Of course, they'd never do that because that would cut significantly into advertising revenue. Instead, they'd rather bastardize the game itself with a plethora of idiotic, half-baked rule changes that you'd swear were first drunkenly conceived in crayon on the back of a lipstick stained cocktail napkin in the darkened corner of some sleazy bar somewhere....all while they claim (without irony, I might add) to honor the traditions of the game.
I was willing to give Manfred the benefit of the doubt his first year as commish, but he has proven himself to be even more inept and vacuous than his perpetually bad-hair-day predecessor, which is really saying something. Bud Selig may have been Pharaoh of fools, but Rob Manfred is the Mahatma of morons. Fredo Corleone would make a better commissioner. The only thing inherently wrong with MLB as a product is its piss-poor leadership.
