I don't see any need for shorter seasons but this debate has gone on forever (see my sig line) and will never be put entirely to rest. As for speeding up the games, most of the recent "innovations" in baseball have only slowed the game down, the most recent being the instant replay challenge. They can take several minutes each during which nothing is happening except you are watching the replays over and over on the big video screens if you are at the stadium or on TV if you are watching at home. They need to figure out how to make that happen faster. Maybe iPads in the dugouts will help. One change they made for the better is the time between innings is shorter and batters have to keep at least one foot in the batters box between pitches. These are improvements that do not change anything fundamental about the game play (which IMO should be left alone as much as possible).
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Out of market games only, unfortunately, unless you want to set it up through a proxy server.
The best way to speed up baseball is:
1. stop with all the ridiculous pre-pitch routine by the batter. It ridiculous. Once the ball is thrown back to the picture the batter should be ready to swing. That alone will shave off 20 minutes of crap time.
2. stop with the pitching coach visits to the mound. Basketball players and football players sub into games without taking 5 minutes. Give teams 4 timeouts per game. This stopping the game 10 times to 'discuss strategy' is stupid. That will shave off another 10 minutes.
3. Speed up instant replay.
Those steps will cut down about 30 minutes from games.
But to make baseball more appealing to the younger generation you need to do more:
1. 3 balls equals a walk. Crazy yes. But then a foul ball would be considered a 3rd strike. This means that the MAXIMUM amount of pitches an at bat can have is 6 pitches. That will cut off 15-30 minutes per game. This will mean that pictures will be forced to throw more strikes and batters will be forced to put balls into play.
2. Each team is given a maximum of 4 times outs. Any time you make a pitching change MID-INNING you need to cal a time out. This stop the madness of some coaches using FOUR PITCHERS in a single inning. Nothing is worse than waiting 10 minutes between each batter, UGH!
3. No more stealing bases. This put an end to the stupidity of 5 throws to first to pick off a battery. You runner must stay on the base until the pitch is thrown. PERIOD.
4. Put a pitch clock on the pitcher. If the pitcher does not pitch before 10 seconds after receiving the ball from the catcher its a BALL. The batter has 5 seconds to get ready to hit.
5. No more stupid 'unwritten' rules that make the game boring. Let players celebrate. Let players have FUN.
6. Harsh penalties for fights. Another time waster.
7. Don't let the pitcher hit. Who wants to see a crappy player hit? Enough.
8. Mega harsh rules for pitchers head hunting.
9. If a player is hit by a pitch they are awarded 2 bases. Want to get rid of that stupidity from the game. If a player makes no attempt to dodge a pitch it will be counted as a BALL only. Don't want to reward players who crowd the plate. If a player goes into the strike zone to get hit, then it will be called a strike.
10. Digital ball and strikes. Sick of Umps having their own 'strike zone'. Takes too long and leads to too many ejections and arguments. Another time waster.
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I work in a run of the mill office and none of our applications or databases run on XP. Additionally, my PC has been replaced 3 times in 7 years and I don't use it for especially taxing work--that's after it slowed to a crawl. No creative design function at all.
So, I don't buy this argument. The iPad is a fantastic entertainment device that can also be used for very casual work. However, the iPad doesn't run *any* of my databases or reporting tools and I can't imagine it will in the near future. It sounds great for creative work, but that is fraction of the workforce and even the creatives I know will complete major projects on a Mac or PC.
Again, the "Pro" label and the price increase is undeserved in my opinion. If this iPad reverses the accelerating decline in sales (unlikely) than it will be because people are replacing very old iPads that they use to play Clash of Clans and surf the web with.
So to be a "Pro" or do real work you have to be working with databases? Ok I get it now.
So in other words Doctors, Nurses, Lawyers, CEO's, Sales Executives, Art Directors, Account managers, ect are not Pro's and are not doing REAL WORK only casual work? I mean WTF
