From: Brad Filippone on
On Oct 23, 2:44 pm, RulesChan...(a)RSN.com wrote:
> >> A couple of his proposed changes weren't too bad, but they got worse
> >> and worse.
>
> Here is a news flash for you: people keep calling baseball "the
> national pasttime."
>
> It ain't.  Football is the national pasttime.

Since when?

Brad
From: Tristan daCunha on
Hey Rules Changes; Wrong.....beating your meat is your "passed" time!
Get a blow up g/f.
E-mail Pratt and ask him if his has a sister!

From: Mortimer on
On Oct 23, 2:15 pm, Brad Filippone <Brad_Filipp...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Since when?
>
> Brad

Since Bud Selig became commissioner of Major League Baseball.
From: McDuck on
On 23 Oct 2009 14:10:24 GMT, Giovanni Wassen <extatix(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>OceanView wrote:
>
>>>> The sliding into first thing doesn't make sense anyway. You have to
>>>> actually slow down to go from running to sliding.
>>>
>>> On first yes, not on second. Didn't you see Mythbusters on this
>>> subject? <g>
>>>
>>
>> No, I meant first, where can go full tilt and overrun. Obviously, on
>> other bases, you do have to slow down.
>>
>> I like Mythbusters, but don't see it that often.
>
>They had an episode where they tested what was faster, it turned out head
>first was the best way (IIRC).
>
>But yes, on first just go full sprint.

I saw a bit on ESPN with Buck Showalter. He claimed that he times some
players. For most, runnig through first was faster but for a few, the
dive was faster. But you have to dive fairly late --- not the kind of
head first dive into second. Takes a lot of practice, apparently, for
the dive to be faster.
From: RulesChanges on
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:15:01 -0700 (PDT), Brad Filippone
<Brad_Filippone(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Oct 23, 2:44�pm, RulesChan...(a)RSN.com wrote:
>> >> A couple of his proposed changes weren't too bad, but they got worse
>> >> and worse.
>>
>> Here is a news flash for you: people keep calling baseball "the
>> national pasttime."
>>
>> It ain't. �Football is the national pasttime.
>
>Since when?
>
>Brad

What rock have you been living under? Football has been the national
pasttime for the last four decades at least.


Just look at the attendance at high school and college football games
across the nation.

You've got high school football games that get 50,000+ in attendance.
baseball gets no where near that.