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Old Tue Jun 28, 2005, 11:25am
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Many people see this as a speed-up rule. It is not. It is meant to make the players to take the bat off their shoulders and use it. The rule increases offense, thus increasing defensive action. This makes for a more exciting game.



[Edited by IRISHMAFIA on Jun 28th, 2005 at 11:17 AM]
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You can count me as one of the people who see this as a speed up rule. at the National level they might be selling it as a rule to add offense, and I agree it certainly does. But as a local issue the reason they went to the 1-1 count was to speed up the game. With hour time limits the players were complaining about only getting in 3 or 4 innings in under the old 0-0 count. Now they are getting complete or near complete games in even with the time limit restrictions.

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