Rules Changes to Help the Game.

This blog has been about how to save baseball, and to make it more fun again. We have never touched the face however maybe it's baseball itself that is making it boring. The new generation of kids love everything that is fast paced. Basketball, football, hockey, soccer, even *cringe* lacrosse is fast paced all the time. Baseball is a unique sport where there is no time limit in anything but the middle of the inning. Some critics consider CHANGING the rules of the classic that is baseball. Stephen Moore even went to consider that it should be 3 balls to a walk, and 2 strikes to a strike out. (Moore). There is a real problem with this though, it would change the game drastically. Ever since the strict policy of steroids, teams have been hitting less. With this rule implemented, pitchers would be even more dominant. The strikeouts would skyrocket through the roof. Just two strikes to get an out... unbelievable. Pitchers are so good in the MLB, they throw more strikes than balls. This would lower the balls and increase the strikes. This would completely make the game lopsided and even MORE boring. Pitchers striking out more and more players means less hits. And the most fun of baseball to most people is players getting hits. Trust me, playing baseball for over 10 years of my life, everyone get excited about hits. This would actually hurt the popularity of baseball instead of helping it. Another way he said to help baseball was to "Give the pitcher a maximum of 45 seconds between pitches or else the umpire calls an automatic ball." (Moore). This would actually HELP the game instead of hurting it. This would speed up the game without changing the rules drastically. It would make the game more fast paced to keep the fans entertained. Rule changes should never happen to the game of baseball. But changes to speed up down time would be great to help baseball become popular again.


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Sources- Moore, Stephen. "Six Ways to save Baseball from Extinction | Fox News."Fox News. FOX News Network, 11 July 2014. Web. 03 May 2016. 
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