Reset the lineup, pick any runner: How to make extra innings cool

MLB and the Gamers Affiliation are nonetheless negotiating COVID protocols for the 2022 season, a algorithm that features whether or not to position a runner on second base to start every further inning.

They're too far alongside within the course of to contemplate a brand new idea, however when you go to this nook of the world with any regularity (thanks), I'm not in opposition to providing options.

Earlier than I get to what I'd do with further innings, I need to lay out two ideas:

1. Main league guidelines are man-made. Each certainly one of them. On this sport, greater than every other, we maintain onto them as in the event that they descended from the heavens. The NBA enacts drastic modifications such because the 24-second clock resetting to 14 seconds after an offensive rebound (as a substitute of 24), and nary a protest is heard. MLB says don’t waste the time throwing 4 balls and simply ship the runner to first if you wish to difficulty an intentional stroll, and it's handled like an try to eradicate one of many Ten Commandments.

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