[BigUmpJohn]

Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
There are a few changes to terminate a teams at-bat upon the hitting of a HR in excess of the limit.

Sounds interesting... a big penalty for long ball hitters. I don't think the players would like it too much, however. I think it would speed up the game.

Moving Men's Major bases to 80' and all other men's to 70'.

I like it. More running for the player in me, but it's fine. But, why not just go the distance and do 90'?

Allow stealing at all levels of men's slow pitch

No. I can see me working a single umpire game where one team will be "steal-happy". As you said, it just seems hard to watch all of the action by yourself.

Move the pitcher's plate back to 53' or 55'

No problem with this whatsoever. I feel with the bat technology, it seems logical with regards to safety. In some leagues, the plate is already back to 55'.

Numerous changes to return all balls to a maximum of 525 lb. compression. Reason: Losing teams who do not want to hit a "mush ball".

No opinion on this matter.

Eliminate the use of an 11" ball for women in the Co-ed game.

Don't do coed... don't really care. But, everyone should be treated equally, I guess.

There are more changes to the Senior's game than I can type from reclassification of the divisions, home run allowances and even limiting the number of runs scored in an inning/game (which is being experimented with at the international level).

I'm ok with the HR allowances but not with limiting the number of runs in an inning. How can you limit the number of runs in a game? Would that be like whoever gets to 35 is the winner?

Eliminate the 6' height requirement for a pitch. Keep the 12' limit, but drop the low end.

I like it, but my fear will be that SP will start to become FP. You'll have that one umpire who won't call an IP for a "fast" pitch because they don't want to and I could just see a possible snowball effect in a league. Maybe that's just me.

Will we see some of these changes and if so how long?