I don't much care either but of all the proposals this eliminates part of a game that has no value to the viewer or the game whatsoever. It is time wasted by an antiquated process, as opposed to time taken by things that happen in the game of baseball. This was my only point. It is tedium. People bitching about pitching changes are the ones that might not be such big baseball fans. [\quote]
Disagree. I find value in watching that cat and mouse game and the teams fucking with each other. I enjoy that and see it as a place for an advantage. The Sox missed their spot to do it. The Dodgers took theirs because the Sox were asleep behind the wheel.
None of these are reasons not to do it. The first doesn't make sense--they do it in football, they could obviously figure out a common sense process. The second is a far-flung hypothetical which, sure, if all that came to pass it would slow things down on that day.
The first - football you need one guy on each side to get the basics down and a good portion of the time they switch up anyway or the green sticker is making the call anyway; and when it goes down we get a week of complaints and media speculating that one team fucked with the other. The second, yes is far flung; it was an example of a possible fault that could be far worse than what the original complaint was here about Machado.