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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
I agree with the article. Baseball needs a mercy rule because there is no end point if you can't get a team out. Sports where injury is a high risk when there is a mismatch need to have mercy rules. But sports with a clock and no significant additional injury risk should just play it out. You don't save that much time in the end, and you take away time from the players on the bench that benefit from blowouts.
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And I agree with you. No need for a mercy rule in basketball, it will eventually end and it creates no greater risk of injury...unless one of the teams gets rough, but that's something else again.