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EPIC RANT: Major League Baseball Is Now “Little Major League Baseball!”

Sports Talk Chicago

Sports Talk Chicago

Football, Sports, Baseball

5.0832 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, host Jon Zaghloul shoots down Major League Baseball’s new rules, and explains why the league should now be called “Little Major League Baseball!” Tune in at 5pm Central on Thursdays to hear Sports Talk Chicago on AM 1230 WJOB and JED TV!

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0:00.0

This is Sports Talk, Chicago, here with Johns a Gloo.

0:02.4

John Meadows directing and producing, remember, you can follow us all over the place on Twitter at Johnson's Sports, Facebook, John Zillam, and you can find us live on Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube at Sports Talk, Chicago.

0:13.8

I want to get into some baseball now.

0:16.6

Oh, boy, this should be a fun one.

0:19.0

Had a lot of fun talks this week with all of you, actually, on Facebook and Twitter as I reacted to the new rules that have been going on in baseball.

0:26.9

So they made the bases bigger now.

0:29.3

They've instituted permanently a ghost runner on second base beginning in the 10th inning,

0:35.5

amongst many other rules that have been changing over the years,

0:38.0

and got a pretty strong reaction from some of you, especially on Facebook.

0:46.1

And if you notice the title of this segment, I titled this one, Little Major League Baseball,

0:53.9

or LMLB, not MLB, LMLB.

1:00.3

When I see the changes that are coming and that have continued to come in baseball here the past year, two years,

1:06.1

they banned the ship. They've made the bases bigger, like T-ball bases.

1:13.6

Literally, T-ball bases, go look it up, go look up the difference between the ship. They've made the bases bigger, like T-ball bases. Literally, T-ball bases, go look it up.

1:15.3

Go look up the difference between the two bases.

1:22.0

Putting Ghostrunners on second base in the 10th inning, this is not California League baseball, this is not Babe Ruth baseball, this is not Little League baseball, it's the major

1:25.6

freaking leagues.

1:30.5

The majors.

1:36.3

But yet, I title this segment, Little Major League Baseball, because that's what they are.

1:41.4

They're a bunch of babies, all of them, banning the ship. You know what? Be better as a player.

1:45.8

Can't steal bases? Be better as a player. You don't need to make the bases bigger. What are we doing here? Why is Major League Baseball cabing to all

1:52.6

of these demands where we're watering down the sport? To the point where we have to adjust the rules.

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