So the World Baseball Classic has announced it's got a brilliant idea to handle those extra, extra inning games. This, according to published reports:
" ... beginning with 13th inning, each half-inning will begin with runners on first and second base, with the batting order intact."
WHAT? WHAAAT!?!?
That's not baseball. I don't know what that is, but it's not baseball.
I've got a better idea. Why don't they just line up one player on third base, and then a player from the opposing team on first, and then let them simultaneously race to the plate. First one there wins it for his team. It makes just as much sense.
Now, I did hear one interesting suggestion on sports talk radio today: a home run derby. It would kind of be like a shootout in hockey. When you reach a certain inning in a tie, let them slug it out. Go 1-9 in the line-up, and the team with the most homers wins the game. At least it would be more exciting.
But artificially putting runners on base is just weird. You're actually going to have guys scoring runs that can't officially be accounted for in the score book.
-- Jayson Larson, editor
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