Please Don’t Ruin Our game!
WEEKLY POLL QUESTION
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CHANGES TO BASEBALL CURRENTLY BEING DISCUSSED?
In the name of Babe Ruth and all that’s good in the world, let’s be careful with what we do to our game!
Baseball, like all other sports, has evolved over the years. If we start with the Deadball Era of the early 20th century, the game has slowly modernized with better equipment, more manicured fields, night baseball, new stadiums, flashier uniforms, and certainly much larger contracts for the players. Yet through it all, the game itself has remained essentially the same.
Maybe the first real change to the structure of the game was the advent of the designated hitter in the American League in 1973. It’s still only in the American League, but that may soon change. However, some of the additional proposals now being considered by Major League Baseball could begin to make the game look very different.
I read recently that some of the things being considered as future possibilities include robot umps (using new technologies) to call balls and strikes, moving the pitching mound back (it didn’t say how far) and starting extra innings at some point with a runner on second (something already used in international play).
If these changes and more begin happening, baseball may start to look very different. What, as a fan, will this mean to you? Consider the following options we’ve provide below, then vote in the poll box below. If you have something additional to add, use the “Other” option and we’ll record your response in the comments section below.
- Baseball has to change with the times. If the lords of the game feel these changes will bring in more young fans and make the game better, I’m all for it.
- A tweak here and there is okay, but baseball is America’s grand old game and the basic rules and field dimensions should remain the same. Even a pitch clock will change both pitchers and hitters approach and isn’t needed.
- Each proposed changed should be decided on its own merits. If both the owners and players agree to a change I’m OK with it.
- If these kinds of changes are implemented count me out. I won’t watch anymore.
We’d love to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave any other thoughts you might have in the comments section below!