Wheres BPs winning strategy?
*** How I would ruin baseball for you While baseball fans in D.C., and potential victims everywhere else, await the arrival of pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg, I will play the spoilsport. Baseball is a cunning, high-stakes face-off between pitcher and batter, and that is what is wrong with baseball. I guess there are people out there who never tire of seeing batters routinely fail to win this eternal struggle, slinking back, dejected again, to sit down in the dugout. But I would make a few small alterations in the rules of baseball to change this altogether: 1) Let the batting team supply the pitcher for its own batters 2) Make a ball that can’t be hit out of the park 3) Adjust the number of fielders and innings as needed to accommodate rules 1 and 2 In MY version of baseball, the action would shift to hitting, fielding and base-running, which to me are more exciting than listening to the ball hit the catcher’s mitt yet again. My objective would be to GET THE BALL IN PLAY, pretty muc
