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Friday, November 14, 2008
HR Derby to determine winner?
Whenever there is talk of having a tie-breaker for baseball, someone invariably says “might as well do it by HR derby then”. In hockey, the most tense moment for me as a hockey fan was the 94 Olympics where Peter Forsberg scored perhaps the greatest goal ever. And here are the top shootout goals in the NHL. Fans go nuts, just crazy for this. And the difference between a shootout and the HR derby is that breakaways and penalty shots are a part of hockey. An exciting part of hockey. The HR derby has nothing at all to do with baseball.
This is why I applaud the international baseball rules to have a tie-breaker by starting with men on base. Having runners on base is exactly baseball.
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In baseball, they used to use one, maybe two pitchers, per game per team. Now, the average is four. Do we REALLY want to see those middle reliever guys? Really? Really, really? 7-innings.
I know, blasphemy. But, other than the playoffs, how often do you guys actually watch a full 9-inning game at home?
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