Balls.
Whose got ‘em. Who doesn’t.
Baseballs. Specifically. MLB evidently has a new ball policy. The league that juiced up the baseballs for more home runs and as a result, more strikeouts, now is taking it down a notch – supposedly – after Sports Illustrated inquired about the baseballs and the Athletic obtained an internal memo about the construction of the baseball.
The ball may have a bit less bounce, but we’ll have to see about all that because it may be a tiny bit lighter and the two changes could cancel each other out.
Bottom line: This is just another change to the game that doesn’t know when to leave well enough alone.
It’s always about change. Never about baseball, and that’s the problem.
Instead of worrying about playing regular old baseball, and improving on the skills of the players in the game, fans are being hit with even more baseball skullduggery.
Here is my Baseball or Bust memo to everybody over at MLB.
Fans like real baseball. Try playing that. Enough with the gimmicks and changing the ball for desired results which always seems to lead to more offense, less baseball, because teams no longer know how to create runs.
Enough with the seven-inning doubleheaders. Enough with the runner on second base in extra innings. We have to put up with that again.
You are so bad at your game now you can’t even manufacture a run to break a tie in the extra innings, you know, baseball stuff. So bad that you have to change the rules again and mask it all under a Covid decree.
Sure, some fans liked the new man on second base rule that popped up in 2020 when everything changed, a 60-game schedule became a “full season.’’ Some say they liked the changes last year because it made the game more exciting with teams trying to get that run home from second — even bunting him over — or as I call it the head-start rule.
Well, some people like fast food for dinner, too. I prefer steak. Why don’t you try to get baserunners on base and get them home all game? Do the little things to get that done.
I prefer watching a batter battle and put up a good at-bat and get a base hit, or work a walk, or put the ball in play and force an error and then move to second base via a bunt, stolen base or a batter giving himself up – or even a hit and run or run and hit, that’s action, that’s baseball. And if a home run happens, cool.
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