Heh, that’s even cheaper than the masters.
Does baseball need to make a crappier ball? One that mostly prevents home-runs and makes fielding actually… happen?
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There is so much debate over the ball being “juiced”. Old balls and new balls both still exist. The only video comparison I’ve seen of old balls vs. new balls is this amateur floatation test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdzgAgdsYac
You would think for something that is such a big deal that they would have experts on ESPN dissecting the things and showing exactly what the differences are.
At the very last you can also do a test by getting a whole bunch of old balls that were never used and using them for a few days of pro baseball and seeing if home runs go down. Obviously, you wouldn’t tell the players anything until aftewards.
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Seems like it was a bit laggy and wasn’t able to get the call in fast enough.
I’m saying make a bad ball on purpose. A shitty ball that makes it harder to hit it very far. You can’t regulate player arms or pitcher arms, but you can regulate the ball itself.
This just removes skill and adds luck, which does indeed make things better for spectators.
Some spectators.
It changes what skills are tested. Now fielding is also tested because the balls won’t always be home runs.
Get a ball that goes slower on the pitch, and batters will have more ability to choose there to lay it. Fielding and base-taking strategy become important again. Pitching becomes less important, everything else becomes more important, and batting becomes a different kind of game.
Really though. There’s no way to save baseball. At optimal play, it’s literally just the pitchers and the batters, and nothing else matters.
I enjoy watching people who suck at baseball playing baseball waaaay more than I enjoy professionals.
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If I’m watching non pros I’d rather just be playing.
Three pitchers versus three batters, simultaneous pitching, shared field.
But at least fun things and actual fielding happen with non-pros.
Watching pros is so boring I can’t stand it. I’d rather watch soccer!
I feel like I’m taking the position, different than the one I actually hold, cause I don’t really watch baseball, due to it being boring. But I just had to sit through the allstar game as that’s what my dad wanted for his birthday was to watch a game of baseball with me.
There’s plenty of fielding. Even errors. I remember a grounder hit to second base where the fielder dove for it and got it but landed sitting down and with little time so he threw to first while sitting on his ass. Try throwing the length of a base path sometime without the use of your legs. It’s much harder than you think.
Conclusion: Pro Baseball is boring to watch, but it’s pretty far from just a hitters and batters game.
I think a lot of baseballs problem is also that the battle between the pitcher and the batter is incredibly interesting. It’s just both so fast and so subtle that it can only be appreciated by experts paying extremely close attention.
A basketball is a lot larger and a slam dunk is completely visible to anyone with eyes.
We use the phrase inside baseball for a reason!
Allstar games are completely different from real games in every sport.
Is it not pro?
Pros are only pro if they are trying to be pro. I submit: The Pro Bowl. Pro in name only.
All star games don’t count, so no one tries that hard. It’s just a show. It’s not a real game. No one would ever play that way in a game that counted.
The Mets aren’t gonna be winning any championships anytime soon, but the Cyclones just did!