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Old Thu Dec 12, 2013, 12:51pm
Manny A Manny A is offline
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"So the actual detail, frankly the kinds of plays that we're trying to eliminate, we haven't finally determined. But what I would expect is to put together 100 of these plays and identify which ones we want to continue to allow and others that we want to prohibit and draft a rule accordingly."
Greaaaat. Not all collisions are the same, so we're going to come up with a rule that's going to only cover some of them. Love it.

Get serious, MLB. IF you really want to eliminate collisions, eliminate all of them. Don't just target the ones that are flagrant. Force runners to either slide or attempt to get around the catcher. Anything that a runner does while in the upright position should be considered a violation, whether or not he throws a forearm, crosses his arms in front of him, turns his body, whatever.
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