Baseball Is A Dangerous Game
Some people have made comments that the game of baseball is boring and moves too slowly. Certain people in this world, including myself obviously, see baseball as the greatest game of strategy that has ever been created. Baseball is a mental game. Baseball is America’s pastime and still fulfills that expectation to this day. The reason for the downfall though in terms of people losing interest is due to the new generation and the advancement of technology serving as a distraction from the greatest game of all time. Although many do not agree with it, including myself, the commissioner of baseball and others are trying to “ speed up the game” with the installment of a timer in center field that counts down from 2 minutes between innings to make
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One’s argument could be, “ If we are relying on technology to determine a call in baseball, why do we have umpires in the first place?” There is rarely an answer to this question. A year later, Major League Baseball introduced the new home plate collision rule. After Giants’ catcher, Buster Posey, got clobbered at home plate on a close play at the plate and broke his leg due to a collision with the runner, Major League Baseball made a rule that the catcher is not allowed to block home plate and if he does the runner is automatically called safe. This is such a vague rule that needs to be reviewed immediately. Another rule that just went into effect this last 2016 season was the “slide rule” at second base. In Game, 2 of the 2015 National League Division Series involving the Dodgers and Mets the Dodgers were down by one run in the bottom of the 7th inning with the tying run on third and the go-ahead run on first with only one
One’s argument could be, “ If we are relying on technology to determine a call in baseball, why do we have umpires in the first place?” There is rarely an answer to this question. A year later, Major League Baseball introduced the new home plate collision rule. After Giants’ catcher, Buster Posey, got clobbered at home plate on a close play at the plate and broke his leg due to a collision with the runner, Major League Baseball made a rule that the catcher is not allowed to block home plate and if he does the runner is automatically called safe. This is such a vague rule that needs to be reviewed immediately. Another rule that just went into effect this last 2016 season was the “slide rule” at second base. In Game, 2 of the 2015 National League Division Series involving the Dodgers and Mets the Dodgers were down by one run in the bottom of the 7th inning with the tying run on third and the go-ahead run on first with only one