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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2019, 08:06:19 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 28, 2019, 06:07:56 PM
Banning the shift is an interesting suggestion.  It used to be rare and now if fairly common.  I see times where a team needs a baserunner and the hitter can 90% lay down a bunt and get there.  Bunt hard enough and you have a double.

I'm sure it's not easy to bunt a major league pitch.
Not bunting when a shift is on is stubborn/lazy.
Forbidding shifts is enabling stubbornness/laziness.
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« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2019, 08:07:12 PM »
I used to hate the DH, but now I just want both leagues to do the same thing - either both have it or both don't.
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2019, 08:17:06 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on July 28, 2019, 06:46:00 PM
Aaaaaaaaaaggggggggh!
I can't prove it, but I'm sure that that sort of reasoning is how we have a nation of middle-aged adults talking like 1980s Valley Girls.

Like, you know?
I'd be good with abandoning the DH, but you have to do it all the way down
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2019, 08:17:43 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 28, 2019, 08:06:19 PM
Not bunting when a shift is on is stubborn/lazy.
Forbidding shifts is enabling stubbornness/laziness.
Depends on the situation
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2019, 08:51:36 PM »
Hockey has the best draft system while preserving eligibility for players. It allows players to be drafted whenever and also allows them to stay in school after they're drafted. I wish all other sports would adopt it, and I don't understand why they don't.

Get rid of conference championship games and go to 13 regular season games, instead. This way, the Big Ten could even go to 10 conference games and schools could still get 7 home games with just 1 guarantee game (and 2 major non-con games) per year. Also make bowl eligibility 7 wins and cancel the bowl games that can't get two bowl-eligible teams (and reassign any teams with winning records to match each other).... Also, get rid of the playoff and go back to the pre-BCS system (or just have the top two teams after the bowls face each other).

For hockey get rid of off-sides. I've heard the arguments both ways, but I just don't really see the point of it. Another would be to increase the size of the nets (I play broomball and those games are still low-scoring, though I wouldn't have hockey nets that large.
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« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2019, 09:39:37 PM »
MLB
Play 144 games,  get rid of divisions and wild cards.  AL and NL, best of 7 LCS, WS best of 7.   Pitch clock and batter stays in box*, rigid enforcement.  (* limited exceptions).

NBA
Play 62 games: 4 divisions, get rid of conferences for playoffs seeding purposes, no East/West.   Let high seeds pick their opponents until final of course.

NFL
16 games, no divisions, 2 conferences.  Let high seed pick playoff opponent.

CFB, accepting the current 4 team playoff.
let top seed pick their opponent.   Semis are a home game.

NHL,  cut off 10 games, maybe 20.  Go back to Wales and Campbell Conferences, with Division names (Adams and Patrick, Norris and Smythe)

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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #20 on: July 28, 2019, 09:53:08 PM »
Why is 144 your magic number for MLB games, MH?

I've seen the argument to go back to 154--the number of games before the 1961 expansion--but not 144.
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2019, 10:31:31 PM »
I'm the czar of sports that's why.  154 is fine too, but me thinks leagues play too long, all of them.  Specifically though, the season can begin in 2nd week of April and we will be done with it by Oct 15 or so.

There were a handful of seasons when there were 140 games played, of course there were a lot fewer franchises. These were mostly deadball era or even 19th C.
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« Reply #22 on: July 28, 2019, 10:33:56 PM »
agreed, baseball weather does not include snow
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #23 on: July 28, 2019, 10:37:19 PM »
get rid of wildcards on MLB and NFL

no need to bunt to beat the shift, hit to the opposite field

if you are not a good enough hitter to do that, grab some pine

manage your hitter, skipper
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #24 on: July 29, 2019, 01:55:49 AM »
Quote from: ELA on July 28, 2019, 08:17:06 PM
I'd be good with abandoning the DH, but you have to do it all the way down
Right on, Brutha!  All the way to Pee Wee ball.
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #25 on: July 29, 2019, 08:23:11 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 28, 2019, 10:37:19 PM
get rid of wildcards on MLB and NFL

no need to bunt to beat the shift, hit to the opposite field

if you are not a good enough hitter to do that, grab some pine

manage your hitter, skipper
I dunno,just win baby!I'd love to see the seasons shortened,the NFL doesn't need to be poking into Ground Hog Day.And MLB should be over a week by Halloween
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #26 on: July 29, 2019, 08:28:15 AM »
Quote from: ELA on July 28, 2019, 08:17:06 PM
I'd be good with abandoning the DH, but you have to do it all the way down
Have to substitute that with throwing underhand to Pitchers  :d030:
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Re: You are the sports czar
« Reply #27 on: July 29, 2019, 08:50:57 AM »
Is the NBA still playing, or have they started up again?
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