Sunday, April 28, 2024

I Admit It: I Was Wrong About the Pitch Clock Ruining Baseball

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The pitch clock is actually SAVING baseball. As San Francisco Chronicle columnist Scott Ostler wrote this weekend, “Also recognized as a ma...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

If you want excitement, you want more runs, more action – (ROTO) 'would certainly bring more action, because nothing is more exciting than a play at the plate on a sac fly.’

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The headline above quotes Ron Wotus, former San Francisco Giants bench and third base coach, when baseball savant Marty Lurie asked him abou...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

MLB’s Experiment To Increase Action Falls Flat; Strikeouts Were Up, Action Remained Stagnant. Will Baseball Execs Finally Take Note of Proposal To Dramatically Increase Action and Excitement? It’s Called ROTO!

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Baseball is in trouble. Is boring too strong a word? MLB experimented with an “action-inducing” proposal in the independent Atlantic League ...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

April 18 Update — Will Another Round of Outreach to Influencers (such as MLB Rules Consultant Theo Epstein) about My Proposed ‘Run on Third Out’ (ROTO) Rule Produce any Responses?

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What’s the adage? “If your first dozen attempts don’t succeed, try try again.”   I’ve been batting .000 across the board in my attempts over...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

3/20/21 Update -- Let's run the ROTO rule past Tyler Kepner of The NY Times again and see what happens

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Call it Strike 1 -- my 2018 email to Tyler Kepner, national baseball writer at the New York Times. I didn't hear back, but now that even...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

8/19/18 Update — My Email to Tyler Kepner, National Baseball Writer at the NY Times, on My ‘Run on Third Out’ Rule

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Mr. Kepler, I just read your piece on Ks vs. hits in the Sacramento Bee, so I’m writing to advance an idea I’ve been peddling since the ‘70s...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Second Call to Jody McDonald Show on CBS Sports Radio Nets Positive Feedback from the Host on my "Run on 3rd Out" Rule

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As teams get down to business in Spring Training, Major League Baseball's leaders are reacting to the widely held concern that the game ...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

My Plan To Improve Baseball Gets an Airing on National Sports Talk Radio; Host Liked Idea, Suggests another Call on February 19th

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SACRAMENTO, CA (Feb. 12, 2017) -- Driving to Safeway this afternoon and listening to the Jody McDonald Show on CBS Sports Radio, I turned up...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

My Plan To Energize Baeeball: Men on Base when Third Out Is Made on Fly Ball Can Tag, Run for Home; If they Beat the Throw, the Runs Score

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Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Mark Twain allegedly said that more than a century ago, and peopl...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Columnist Has Had It with Blackout: 'Major League Money Grab Keeps Hawaii Fans in Dark'

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin sports columnist Ferd Lewis wrote the piece reproduced below for the April 9, 2016 edition of the pape...
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Sunday, March 2, 2014

2016 Season about To Begin with Blackout Intact; Will Comcast Takeover of Time-Warner End Their Disregard for Giants, A’s Fans in Hawaii?

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What will make the knuckleheads running these companies do the right thing? JANUARY 26, 2016 UPDATE with this news:   http://bit.ly...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Congrats to the Giants, NL West Champions; SF Is Creating a Dynasty, but it Goes Unseen in Hawaii; Almost Forgot: Giants Took Care of WS Business!

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What a year 2012 has been for Hawaii’s favorite MLB team, the San Francisco Giants. Matt Cain throws a Perfect Game ; Barry Zito rebounds fo...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Sports Columnist Rips Giants for Tolerating TV Blackout in Hawaii, and That’s Really Bad PR

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The San Francisco Giants organization is a pretty thick-skinned bunch. They’ve shown no aloha whatsoever for their loyal fans in Hawaii as t...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

PERFECTION!!!

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MATT CAIN pitches the first perfect game tonight in Giants franchise history! What a thrill to watch it on television -- in California. Un...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

MLB Hawaii Blackout Continues; Giants Fans Move to Sacramento, Can Now Watch Every Game

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Angel Pagan stretches to snag liner into left-center at AT&T Park today . It's Saturday afternoon, the Giants are beating Texa...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Happy Ending of Giants’ 1-0 Win over Phillies:

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What a Tease; Blackout of Coast Teams Means It Was 1 of Only 17 SF Games on HI TV in 2012 At least the wait was worth it, but the clas...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Cain Throws Gem in Home Opener, but We Didn’t See It in Honolulu, 2,387 Miles from San Francisco; We’re in the Giants’ ‘Home TV Territory’ – IYCBI

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Matt Cain had a perfect game through 6.2 innings in his 1-hitter. If You Can Believe It, baseball fans in Hawaii have started a fourth seas...