Some Baseball Thoughts Upon Listening To WFAN
Truthfully, the DH has outlived its usefulness, I think. The DH was created as an experiment back in 1973 to help the AL at a time when run scoring was thought to be too low. Now that, supposedly, the AL has plenty of scoring, and there's is enough scoring in baseball, in general, the DH can be eliminated. I liked the DH because it kept players around a couple extra years, players like Yastrzemski and Reggie. Then, again, I like seeing good hitting pitchers, too.
Also, after a quick look at some stats at Yahoo.com, it looks like there is a mix of AL & NL teams in the HR & SB categories. This would lend credence to the fact that the leagues don't exactly fall into the "AL/power league & the NL/SB league". My thought is that the leagues don't exactly fall into stringent categories, anymore. There are AL teams that play "small-ball" (Boston is NOT an example of this, as was stated earlier today on Ed Randall's show), and there are NL teams that are "non small-ball teams".
One more thing: I think it is time to even things up a little bit in baseball. I think it is time to expand and enforce the strike zone as such: From the armpits to the bottom of the knees. Let's give the pitchers the high & the low strike since they cannot have the inside strike. The other change to help the pitchers: Raise the mounds back to the pre-1969 height. I think the reason there's no pitching in baseball is that the latest changes & ballpark constructions have favored offense. When every single team needs pitching, what does that tell you? It's one of two things: Either there's not enough pitching, or the offense/pitching scale leans so far over to the offense that it makes the pitchers look bad. Time to tip the scales back over to the pitchers, if even a little bit.
Oh, just one more thing.... The A-Rod booing thing gained a big following because, like any other popular movement, there are people who will jump on-board because they want to be part of the crowd, part of the group, so to speak. "Hey, I'm booing, too! Now I'm part of the gang!!!". That's why I think it snowballed as it did.
Also, after a quick look at some stats at Yahoo.com, it looks like there is a mix of AL & NL teams in the HR & SB categories. This would lend credence to the fact that the leagues don't exactly fall into the "AL/power league & the NL/SB league". My thought is that the leagues don't exactly fall into stringent categories, anymore. There are AL teams that play "small-ball" (Boston is NOT an example of this, as was stated earlier today on Ed Randall's show), and there are NL teams that are "non small-ball teams".
One more thing: I think it is time to even things up a little bit in baseball. I think it is time to expand and enforce the strike zone as such: From the armpits to the bottom of the knees. Let's give the pitchers the high & the low strike since they cannot have the inside strike. The other change to help the pitchers: Raise the mounds back to the pre-1969 height. I think the reason there's no pitching in baseball is that the latest changes & ballpark constructions have favored offense. When every single team needs pitching, what does that tell you? It's one of two things: Either there's not enough pitching, or the offense/pitching scale leans so far over to the offense that it makes the pitchers look bad. Time to tip the scales back over to the pitchers, if even a little bit.
Oh, just one more thing.... The A-Rod booing thing gained a big following because, like any other popular movement, there are people who will jump on-board because they want to be part of the crowd, part of the group, so to speak. "Hey, I'm booing, too! Now I'm part of the gang!!!". That's why I think it snowballed as it did.
posted by zyphryn at 12:49 PM
1 Comments:
Re A-Rod: Also, the kind of people who jump on board for that reason are the kind of people who become Yankee fans in the first place.
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