Welcome to The Commish, a new series of posts where I will fix baseball.

I gave baseball ten innings last night and then had enough.  I don’t need to stay up until all hours of the night watching these things.  Nobody does.  So I present to you two scenarios for baseball to eliminate extra innings without resorting to nonsense like starting the inning with a runner on second.  These are both very simple and smart.  Ready?

IDEA #1:   TIES

Just have a tie.  The Nippon League does it.  In my proposal play 9, maybe 10, and then the game is over.

Some of you stress about the standings.  The season often ends with teams only playing 161 games because of a rain out.   Life goes on.   Here’s the 2016 NL Central….add up the Pirates and Cubs totals…

Now imagine another column that said T and had a 1 under it.  Its fine.

Some of you worry about pennant race tiebreakers.  I refer you to 1972.  The season started late because of a strike/lockout/something, and the deal was that everyone would just play whatever amount of games they had left on their schedule….

Wow the Bosox got hosed.  They played one fewer game and missed the playoffs.  Hosed.

But let’s pretend that the Red Sox were 85-70-1 because some game against the Angels was a tie.

It’s fine.  Just have ties.

 

IDEA #2:  The visiting team wins after 9 innings if the score is tied

So you don’t like ties and you like drama.

Here’s a scenario.   Giants at Mets.   Bottom of the 9th, the score is 1-1.

If the Mets score just one run they win the game!  There is no 10th inning.  So the Giants will bring in their closer and act like they have a 2-1 lead.

The Mets know there is no tomorrow so they play good old fashioned SMALL BALL and try to get that one run.  The Mets have to play like the score is 2-1.

It has everything you want….with the drama of do or die.

The more I think about this idea the more I like it.     Baseball should add this tomorrow.

SLACKISH REACTION:  Hey I only made it through 10 innings, I wonder how the Mets did….

(clears throat)

🗣️ WE’LL TAKE IT pic.twitter.com/3ovm5C6Xcw

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) August 21, 2018

Well that’s what’s gonna happen when you play infielders in the outfield. Dom Smith has ONE RBI. Today its August 21

I have been re-blocked by Soft Todd Frazier, so I am going full Trump on him now.  What did I even do?  I didn’t like one of the t-shirt designs on his site?  

Soft Todd Frazier’s OPS is .704.   We are officially at war until I am unblocked, or at least blocked for something real.  Again, even Matt Harvey never blocked me bro.

NOT LINKING:  The Amazin’ Apple Insiderized Mets Blog Report (aka AAIMBR) wrote that David Wright may not return to the Mets this season.

Quiet morning other than that.

So since I have nothing for the late night slot I thought I’d share this. It’s an article that says the old guys are wrong. Obviously it is this article that is wrong because…and let me go BIG FONT HERE

If you think today’s game of Major League Baseball is better than it was in 2008, or 1998 or 1988 you are likely insane.  Insane.  Not just wrong, actually insane.

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They hate that starters rarely pitch deep into games, that coaches adhere to pitch counts, the rise of analytics, the lack of arguments between umpires and managers, among other things.

Source: Old-timers continue to point fingers, complain about baseball – HardballTalk

Yes.  Yes we do.  Who the hell wants to see extreme bullpenning and dopey replay.  This is entertainment.  I would much rather watch Earl Weaver kick dirt on someone than watch Mickey Callaway nod at someone to check the replay. Today’s baseball SUCKS and the sooner we can admit it the better.

 

Here’s the article referenced in the post before this one on MP.  The other article is so so wrong about everything and just crutches on the Old Man Yells At Cloud thing.  This article is so correct and let me go BIG FONT again…

ANYONE WHO THINKS TODAY’S GAME OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IS BETTER THAN IT WAS IN 2008, 1998 or 1988 IS LIKELY INSANE.  

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Now, as baseball fights for its slice of the sports landscape among the ever-popular NFL and an NBA that fast-breaked right past it in popular culture years ago, MLB turns its games over to anonymous relievers by the middle innings. Mix in that some people think the games last too long, the increasing dead time contained within and baseball’s continued struggle to market itself to new fans, and the challenges deepen.

Source: ‘I Find It Very Difficult’ to Watch: Why MLB Greats Think Baseball’s in Trouble | Bleacher Report | Latest News, Videos and Highlights

Man am I playing with fire here.  I just got Unblocked by the Toddfather and now I’m gonna go browse his online store?  Playing with fire.

First up we have the cartoon Todd Frazier tee.  I guess this could be fun if we were all going out drinking.  I wear this.  You say, “You know he’s from New Jersey?”  I say, “no way.”  We laugh.  You say, “Did you know he played in the LLWS.”  I say, “No way!”  We laugh.  Lot of potential here and my birthday is coming.

I like this next one.  A nice traditional look.

This next one….I guess….my brain wants it to say I TODD N Y but I guess someone’s lawyer would call.   My least favorite of the three,

And this next one….eh, not even trying….

Maybe if he gets traded to the Dodgers when David Wright takes 3B back….but it makes little sense in the Metsiverse,

Did I get relocked yet?  Come on Todd, do a search for CUCKOLD….even Thor didn’t block me.  Even MATT HARVEY never blocked me.  Don’t block me Todd.