Olney: Changes in Second Base Slide for 2016

[jjnono]

If the slide into second is regulated, will MLB then do away with the "in the area" call? That call is only given as a nod to the fact that infielders are exposed when turning double plays... Just curious.

[DrungoHazewood]

Baseball has been great for 100 years. Let's start changing the rules, for a handful of injuries. Sad.

Yea.. baseball is awesome so when someone has a gruesome injury for no reason at all we should just say whatever, stuff happens.

[OFFNY]

Baseball has been great for 100 years. Let's start changing the rules, for a handful of injuries. Sad.

Baseball has been great for more than 100 years.

And in those 100-plus years, the rules have continually been changing (major rule changes as well as minor rule changes) to adapt to what is deemed to be in the best interest of the game.

If there had not been any rule changes in the last 100 years, MLB would still be using a sawdust ball that wasn't changed more than 4 or 5 times throughout a 9-inning game (including retrieving foul balls from fans in the stands.)

Also, rain-out games were not made up 100 years ago. If a team was leading their league by a single game over the 2nd-place team but had had 5 rain-outs, the team with the one-game lead was declared the league champion ...... without making up any of the rain-out games.

As Billy Joel once said, "The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow's not as bad as it seems."

[Orioles4Life21]

Baseball has been great for more than 100 years.

And in those 100-plus years, the rules have continually been changing (major rule changes as well as minor rule changes) to adapt to what is deemed to be in the best interest of the game.

If there had not been any rule changes in the last 100 years, MLB would still be using a sawdust ball that wasn't changed more than 4 or 5 times throughout a 9-inning game (including retrieving foul balls from fans in the stands.)

Also, rain-out games were not made up 100 years ago. If a team was leading their league by a single game over the 2nd-place team but had had 5 rain-outs, the team with the one-game lead was declared the league champion ...... without making up any of the rain-out games.

As Billy Joel once said, "The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow's not as bad as it seems."

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These are the good old days. They are.

[DrungoHazewood]

Baseball has been great for more than 100 years.

And in those 100-plus years, the rules have continually been changing (major rule changes as well as minor rule changes) to adapt to what is deemed to be in the best interest of the game.

If there had not been any rule changes in the last 100 years, MLB would still be using a sawdust ball that wasn't changed more than 4 or 5 times throughout a 9-inning game (including retrieving foul balls from fans in the stands.)

Also, rain-out games were not made up 100 years ago. If a team was leading their league by a single game over the 2nd-place team but had had 5 rain-outs, the team with the one-game lead was declared the league champion ...... without making up any of the rain-out games.

As Billy Joel once said, "The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow's not as bad as it seems."

Baseball was first called the national pastime around the time of the Civil War, if not a few years before. Many people probably thought the game was awesome as it was played then, and didn't need to muck around with silly rules changes like being able to snap your wrist while pitching, or raising your arm above your waist while pitching, or a pitcher's mound, or calling a ball that hits fair and goes foul a foul ball, or foul balls being strikes, or introducing this concept of "walks", or balls caught on the first bounce not being an out, or this nebulous "strike zone" thing replacing a simple and elegant call for a high or low pitch by the batter, or balls bouncing over the fence not being a homer, or allowing gloves, or allowing professional players instead of gentlemen amateurs.

I think we should go back to the way the founders intended, not this perversion of baseball we see today.

[pastorfan]

Baseball has been great for 100 years. Let's start changing the rules, for a handful of injuries. Sad.

Yes, this is my whole point, though I made it with some sarcasm

[pastorfan]

Yea.. baseball is awesome so when someone has a gruesome injury for no reason at all we should just say whatever, stuff happens.

No, but I'm tired of overreaction. People get hurt. You can't eliminate every possible risk. The umpire blew the call. Today, you can't pitch inside, you can't block the plate and now another change. Time to put L screens up in front of the pitchers--cause some pitchers get hit, not allow first basemen to reach for back for a tag on a wide throw--cause some have gotten hurt, no more head first slides--cause some broken fingers, oh, and NO MORE SWINGING IN THE BATTER BOX--cause that's how Manny tore his knee up.

[Enjoy Terror]

No, but I'm tired of overreaction. People get hurt. You can't eliminate every possible risk.

You can eliminate ones that are easy to fix, and risks that don't serve any purpose but to injure the other person.

One of these two players had a broken leg. Can you guess which one?

Another picture of two players. Which one?

And another:

How many were preventable? All of them. There's no reason why baseball should allow players to injure other players to save a baserunner at first.

[DrungoHazewood]

No, but I'm tired of overreaction. People get hurt. You can't eliminate every possible risk. The umpire blew the call. Today, you can't pitch inside, you can't block the plate and now another change. Time to put L screens up in front of the pitchers--cause some pitchers get hit, not allow first basemen to reach for back for a tag on a wide throw--cause some have gotten hurt, no more head first slides--cause some broken fingers, oh, and NO MORE SWINGING IN THE BATTER BOX--cause that's how Manny tore his knee up.

Like I said, no reason to be sensible and make small, decent changes when you can instead rant about do-gooders trying to ruin EVERYTHING!!!@!!!!

[DrungoHazewood]

You can eliminate ones that are easy to fix, and risks that don't serve any purpose but to injure the other person.

One of these two players had a broken leg. Can you guess which one?

Another picture of two players. Which one?

And another:

How many were preventable? All of them. There's no reason why baseball should allow players to injure other players to save a baserunner at first.

In all cases it's the guy who signed up for a man's sport, not one for mollycoddles.

[Enjoy Terror]

In all cases it's the guy who signed up for a man's sport, not one for mollycoddles.

What about pink tea?

[byrdz]

This wouldn't be much different than football's roughing the passer rule designed to protect the player from serious injury from an action who's sole purpose is to injure the player.

The NFL has been ruined ever since!!

[DrungoHazewood]

This wouldn't be much different than football's roughing the passer rule designed to protect the player from serious injury from an action who's sole purpose is to injure the player.

The NFL has been ruined ever since!!

That's why no one watches the NFL any more and boxing and UFC are the two most popular sports in the world. Why would you watch a sport without early onset Alzheimers?

[weams]

Changed. Must go to base. Incidental contact while traveling towards the base are permitted. No roll-blocks or slides past the bag are permitted. Two outs. Batter and runner.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mlb-updates-slide-rule-mets-ss-tejada-injured-nlds-article-1.2543737

[Phantom]

No one, I repeat, NO ONE watches baseball to see a guy get taken out or hurt by a slide no where near the bag. Good riddance.