This is the plot of Speed 3. The bus will blow up if the team it is carrying goes below .500.

You could’ve made up some of those words and I wouldn’t know any better, but I’ll trust your judgement.

They’re trying too hard to appeal to people who aren’t going to watch baseball however long the game is while alienating the people who do care.

But are extra innings really the problem (particularly with non-baseball fans)? In a given season, about 10% of the games go into extra innings. Of those, the vast majority only need an extra inning or two to complete. I would argue that the non-baseball fan is going to think that baseball is long whether it goes 9…

Oakley going after Dolan on national TV is fucking elixir.

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Rob Manfred

Why not?

That’s cool. My work softball league does the same thing.

Only if that runner either:

I still think my idea of taking one fielder off per extra inning is worth a shot. No less gimmicky than this “ghost man on second” bullshit.

Why start there? You could have the tenth be normal, then in the eleventh have a guy on first, and move him around one each inning. In the 14th, you add a 2nd runner at first and then bases loaded in the 16th.

Might as well do HR Derby to decide ties. Same thing.

“Oh great so I gotta start off extra innings with some dude clogging up the base path in front of my hitters? Not on your life dude.” Dusty Baker

No

Most people in Asia are wearing masks to prevent getting sick, not because they are sick. This is the lesson of the flu pandemics they’ve gone through, and air pollution. How effective it is I have no idea, but at least they’re proactive about it now. If it were socially acceptable to stay away from work, school, and…

I get paid hourly, so I go to work unless I am literally incapable of standing. I simply can’t afford to miss a day of pay.

HAHAHA! ...Oh wait, you’re not joking? Japan is a workaholic country, and most people don’t have sick leave, much less opportunity to work from home. Heck, people use their limited vacation days for sick leave. Also, your solution is under the assumption that anyone can work from home. I’d love to see someone try to…

Not everyone has that opportunity. I can’t just ‘work from home’ when I work dishroom at a hospital. I WISH I had that chance. I don’t mind people wearing masks when they’re sick, or if they’re legitimately worried about getting sick. But wearing them because ‘your eyes look bigger’ is, frankly, pretty stupid. I agree…

That shit don’t fly in Japan. Work ethic is important on a personal level over there, a much higher average than here in America. You don’t miss work unless someone died, even then, working past the grief over there is viewed as admirable and resolute. Of course the society and its viewpoints are changing as a new…