How Major League Baseball's new rules avoid addressing same old issue

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

What begins as an analogy for how a new rule punishes a team and players who use data, savvy, and athleticism to find an edge jumps into a much larger discussion on how a game guided by huge sample sizes tries to entertain on the small scale. Kevin Wheeler, co-host of The Show midday on KMOX/1120 AM, joins the Best Podcast in Baseball and baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss the new rules that Major League Baseball will have for 2023. Which one is substantive? Which one is creative? Which one is cosmetic, at best? And what rule would make more of an impact. Also discussed is the beauty of baseball's "sustained tension" and how anecdotal style -- what a fan sees that one game they attend or 20 games they watch on TV -- maybe more valuable for selling the game than what two lifelong baseball think when focusing on the larger season. A new way to sell the game is also discussed, but is it snappy enough? The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
0:05.7	Update your closet, garage, office, pantry, and more.
0:09.0	Imagine your home totally organized with closets by design.
0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800 by design.
0:17.2	Maybe what we need to change more are minds.
0:19.7	We need more teams that are willing to be different.
0:24.6	You go back to, say, the 80s as an example, you had all these different styles of play, all these different styles of game.
0:30.6	You had Earl Weaver.
0:31.6	He had the platoons and the three-run Homer and the big starting pitchers, and you had Whitey Ball, and you had Billy Ball,
0:38.1	and you had Harvey's Wallbangers. You had all these different views of how to play the game,
0:43.2	and everybody was different. Right now, everybody's the same. They are all playing the same game
0:48.6	the same way. Who's different? Who's out there? Who's like, you know what? We're going to take risks.
0:58.8	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closzid by Design of St. Louis.
1:02.7	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined this week once again because it was advertised and it's time.
1:09.8	Kevin Wheeler and I are going to talk a little postseason, but we're going to talk rules.
1:14.9	We've been going on about this in our conversations through the years about Major League Baseball rules.
1:20.3	And now it's time for the Rules podcast.
1:23.4	Are you ready, Mr. Wheeler?
1:25.1	I was born ready.
1:26.3	Yeah.
1:26.7	I've been looking forward to this, too,
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