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Pitch Clock Playoffs
In our last post, we pointed out the all-time lowest ratings in this year’s World Series. The disastrous ratings were not just limited to the World Series, since the entire post season was down 8% from 2022. In addition, games across FOX, FS1 and TBS/truTV averaged 3.1 million viewers, which was down from the 3.4…
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Pitch Clock World Series
We touched on this in one of our earlier posts that World Series ratings have been on the decline for some time now. The baseball gods though decided that the fix was to add a pitch clock and other rule changes to speed up the game. One would think the introduction of the pitch clock…
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Trevor May: Passion vs Greed
Previously, we pointed out here and here that John Fisher of the Oakland Athletics is one of the worst baseball owners in all of baseball. If you thought that opinion was strictly our own here at BP, then think again. Trevor May, an A’s relief pitcher had a few choice words for Mr. Fisher upon…
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Doubling Your Misery (Part II): The Ghost Runner and the Pitch Clock
In our prior post, we bemoaned the fact that MLB took a hatchet to the rules in order to save a mere 24 minutes of game time. As also mentioned, we stated that anecdotally it seems that fans are less averse to the pitch clock than they are to the ghost runner. Both those rules…
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Doubling Your Misery: The Ghost Runner and the Pitch Clock
There are two rules that have likely had the greatest impact on shortening the game. The first is the ghost runner and the other is the pitch clock. From a purely anecdotal scanning of opinion pieces and fan reactions throughout the internet, it appears that most fans would scrap the ghost runner, but most favor…
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Mind Bending Attendance Logic
After just concluding the season, MLB and the media are touting the 6.2 million increase in fans from the prior year (2022) and for the most part believe that the new rule changes were the main factors driving this increase. The current season saw attendance top the 70 million mark for all thirty clubs, which…
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The Cheapest and Most Tone Deaf Owner
Previously in our series about bad owners we brought to you John Fisher of the Oakland A’s. In addition to Mr. Fisher being a bad and disloyal owner (as he is moving his club to Las Vegas next year and robbing the Bay Area of their long time club), you can also add cheap and…
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Neutral Pitch Clock Monitor?
This recent article notes that MLB will be employing neutral pitch clock monitors for the upcoming playoffs. Yes that’s right, neutral pitch clock monitors are actually a thing. The money quote from this article is that, “The league apparently evaluated clock operators from all 30 teams throughout the season and will choose up to the…
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The Disappearing Ghost Runner
While we here at BP support MLB for their consistency in deciding that the pitch clock rules would remain the same even for the upcoming playoffs, that same consistency seems to be lost when it comes to the ghost runner. We want to be clear though, BP despises both the pitch clock and the ghost…
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Post Season Pitch clock: End of Debate
1970 Baltimore Orioles World Series Champions
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The Pitch Clock, Injuries and Ohtani
We brought up the notion that perhaps the faster game would negatively affect major league pitchers in terms of their health in this prior post. We will start by stating that we here at BP have no data currently either pro or con of how the pitch clock might have negatively affected MLB pitchers health…
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The Post Season Pitch Clock Debate
There has been an ongoing debate about whether to relax the pitch clock rules when it comes to the post season. We have not even experienced a pitch clock post season, but already there seems to be a division within the baseball hierarchy about whether to change the rules to give more time during the…
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