Paps fined for being slow...
- Thread starter ScoobaDawg
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... home of obscure statistics and, apparently, ridiculous timing rules.
"A source told Mullen that the time from the third out of one half-inning to the first pitch of the next half-inning is supposed to be 2 minutes 5 seconds for local TV games, 2:25 for national TV weeknight games, and 2:30 for TV games on the weekend."
"A source told Mullen that the time from the third out of one half-inning to the first pitch of the next half-inning is supposed to be 2 minutes 5 seconds for local TV games, 2:25 for national TV weeknight games, and 2:30 for TV games on the weekend."
Not only for baseball, but for football and basketball too. I like all 3 sports, but there's way too much time where players are standing around and doing nothing in all 3 of them. I'd much rather see the same amount of action played in 3 hours than in 3-1/2 hours.
but regulating it down to the second seems a little extreme to me. And what's with the 5 sec. differential for weekday and weekend games? What's the extra 5 seconds for?
I imagine TV ratings are lower on Saturday nights than Thursday so they needed a little more space for ad revenue?
I don't see anybody complaining that they set the standard for the play clock in football or the shot clock in basketball down to the second. And it's not like they're enforcing the rule down to the second. Paps didn't violate the rule by a second or two, he violated it by about a minute.
they ought to address in order to keep the game moving.
Umps do NOT have to grant timeouts to anyone. That includes batters, catchers, and baserunners. I'm not sure that they have to grant managers a timeout to talk to the pitcher.</p>
I'm all for awarding the batter a called ball if the pitcher's taking too long and, in return, calling a strike on the batter if he's slow to get in the box. (I'm tired of watching batters primping before they get settled in the box. There are kids in the local rec league that step out after every pitch, primp, step back in, hold up their back hand while never looking at the ump, shuffle around., and ...aarrrgghh!.. the umps always grant the kids time. It gotten ridiculous at every level.)
Heck, even tennis awards points to the opposition if you take too long in process of serving.
2 minutes is all that's needed betwen half-innnings. You could also reduce by one the number of warmup pitches allowed before each half-innning.
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Umps do NOT have to grant timeouts to anyone. That includes batters, catchers, and baserunners. I'm not sure that they have to grant managers a timeout to talk to the pitcher.</p>
I'm all for awarding the batter a called ball if the pitcher's taking too long and, in return, calling a strike on the batter if he's slow to get in the box. (I'm tired of watching batters primping before they get settled in the box. There are kids in the local rec league that step out after every pitch, primp, step back in, hold up their back hand while never looking at the ump, shuffle around., and ...aarrrgghh!.. the umps always grant the kids time. It gotten ridiculous at every level.)
Heck, even tennis awards points to the opposition if you take too long in process of serving.
2 minutes is all that's needed betwen half-innnings. You could also reduce by one the number of warmup pitches allowed before each half-innning.
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