MLB says it's not where it should be, and hasn't been for way over a century. Between the bigger bases and repositioning second base to put it fully within the diamond, the basepaths from first to second and second to third will be only 87 feet. (They're trying this out in a minor league this year.) That's a big difference for baserunners and infielders..
Maybe second has been where it really should be all this time, and the half-in, half-out location was chosen to make the paths closer to equal all the way around the diamond (which the bigger bases has fucked up somewhat already).
It always seemed fine up until now. But MLB, you know. Geniuses.
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Isn't Life a Gas
This is just another example of the billionaire muppets who own baseball clubs attempting to “speed up the game” as if baseball was supposed to be a thrill-a-minute game like basketball, a game for the eyeballs.
They are stripping away at the core of the game by taking away the very things that makes baseball special. It is a leisurely game, meant to be taken slowly so that while watching you can eat, talk about all sorts of things, ask about family and friends, and in between yell, at the umpire, boo and hiss at your opponent, and cheer for the guys you root for. In short, it’s a communal game meant to be played at a pace that makes us remember that we’re human.
And those ideas are going, going, gone
I hate them so much.
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