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You are proving my point for me. If you look into the reasons behind why players have a better chance to hit 500 HRs you will realize they are not reaching 500 HR more commonly now than at any other time.

Sounds nice but "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." -Yogi Berra Have you watched college football lately, this takes forever and they just overly review obviously correct calls, and then a while later the referee insults everyone's intelligence who is watching by telling them the call is confirmed, often with a nice commercial break mixed in.

Managers do not even average going on the field to argue calls once a game, it would make a negligible impact. Managers going to the mound is just like a timeout in every other sport that has a clock, are you proposing to ban timeouts in football? (I would definitely favor it for basketball) At least with managers going to the mound there isn't a commercial break. The #1 way by far to speed up the game is simply to enforce rule 6.02(d)(1) which is already on the books. Sorry to say Braun is a leading offender of this rule adjusting his batting gloves literally after every pitch he sees, notice not swinging at a pitch is not listed: 6.02(d)(1) The batter shall keep at least one foot in the batter’s box throughout the batter’s time at bat, unless one of the following exceptions applies, in which case the batter may leave the batter’s box but not the dirt area surrounding home plate: (i) The batter swings at a pitch; (ii) The batter is forced out of the batter’s box by a pitch; (iii) A member of either team requests and is granted “Time”; (iv) A defensive player attempts a play on a runner at any base; (v) The batter feints a bunt; (vi) A wild pitch or passed ball occurs; (vii) The pitcher leaves the dirt area of the pitching mound after receiving the ball; or (viii) The catcher leaves the catcher’s box to give defensive signals. If the batter intentionally leaves the batter’s box and delays play, and none of the exceptions listed in Rule 6.02(d)(1)(i) through (viii) applies, the umpire shall award a strike without the pitcher having to deliver the pitch. The ball is dead, and no runners may advance. The umpire shall award additional strikes, without the pitcher having to deliver the pitch, if the batter remains outside the batter’s box and further delays play.

The worst thing about instant replay is that it sucks all the excitement out of any time a close call goes your way. Players slides home on a bang-bang play umpire gives a big safe signal and the crowd goes wild...not exciting at all because you have to wait and see the replay from 5 angles before you can be sure it won't get challenged. It is also dumb that this has already devolved into a stall tactic until you get some signal from someone watching on TV who calls the bench coach. They are already not counting that time in the "replay time" which they should. I do have to give them credit for figuring this out right away. I think most NFL coaches still don't do this and only challenge based on how favorable it would be for them to have the call overturned, not how likely it is to be overturned. You should have to challenge only based on what you saw from the dugout, if its not obvious to anyone watching the call was wrong then its not worth wasting everyone's time with a challenge. And there should be a big penalty for a challenge that is upheld, like forcing you to remove the pitcher or pinch hit for the next batter if you are wrong, again to prevent wasting my time with calls that are too close to tell.

MLB has not seen a huge spike in 500 HR club members recently. Through 1960 there were 4 members, Ruth, Foxx, Ott and Williams. From September 1965 to September 1971 there were 7 members added to the club over that 6 year span. I guess Mays, Mantle, Mathews, Aaron, Banks, Killebrew and Robinson were all heavily juicing. Then over the next 40 seasons from 72-01 there were 6 additions to the club; McCovey, Jackson, Schmidt, Murray, McGwire and Bonds. And finally over the past 13 seasons we have seen 8 new additions, just 1 more than the PED raging late 60s in more than twice the time, and in a league with 33% more players. Maybe we are just seeing the natural balancing of powers and we are in for another 6 new members over a 40 years period.

Based on the transitive property we won the world series last year

Nice

Right, Fred Lynn does still have 1 "only guy in MLB history to do something" distinction, can you name it?

Fred Lynn won as a Rookie in 1975, who is the only other player win ROY and MVP in the same season?

That was a different looking throw compared to Weeks on the same play....

Gomez is a horrible bunter because he starts running to first before he gets the bunt down. He had 6 bunt hits last season

Let go Ramirez, just a SF please ...or RBI single to right

Gallardo topped his opening day gem, no walks today. Looking good

Thats why you just throw it down the middle with a 3-0 lead

No Gomez tried for a bunt hit

Pretty sneaky by Reynolds there, not a standard 3TO player move

Wrong BA, The Beaneaters were the Boston Braves, now in Atlanta.

Do people still like bobbleheads? I don't understand it

I think that throw would have hit the base

The last time the Brewers completed a sweep in Boston was Robin Yount's last game

Lester with the assist on his own K, don't see that too often

Just cut Weeks now

I was just watching the Bad News Bears this morning on mlb network, Nava looks like he is trying out for the team

This is the only correct answer, others are correct but wrong time