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Competition Committee is the word of the day. It's Friday, September 9th, 2022.

Of course, we send our condolences to Queen Elizabeth II and to everybody in the UK and all of the territories that they've either acquired stolen, fought for or rightfully won.

But we are not postponing nothing personal nor taking a moment of silence, which I guess we could ready here. It goes, I'll just do that when I cough or something.

But sending our best 70 years, my God, it's a long time. I think that's second longest to like, I thought it was the longest cocoa, but it was the second longest to King Louis, the something maybe 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, or 69th, we did it for 73 years.

Doing something for 70 years just seems like a long time. I mean, other than living, but we got to get right into it. Competition Committee is Friday. We got a lot to cover.

The competition committee, that's the committee I was on and it was all owners and presidents and our job was to make the game better, figure out how to help with pace of play, pace of action.

We had all these ideas talked about, re-alignment, talked about expansion, talked about rule changes, pitch clocks, replay, etc. Then there was a collective bargaining negotiation.

And the players said, we want a voice. And so MLB said, all right, we're in. We're going to make a new competition committee and this committee is going to be able to suggest and then vote on rule changes.

And the players said, all right, tell me who's on the commentage committee. Oh, no problem. We're going to have 11 people. We're going to put six on and then you can have four players and we'll do one on fire.

Does that sound good? And the players union and Tony Clark and all of the players, Scott porous as players and Scott porous said, all right, you know, that really doesn't sound outstanding because let's get to the rules. Just out of curiosity.

How many members of the competition committee are needed to pass a new rule? Oh, that's that's easy. A majority.

What's the majority of 12? You can do the math. I may be some of you can do the math. It's six. So wait, if all of the owners on the competition committee agreed is something that means no matter what the players think it gets done. Hello, welcome to collective bargaining 101.

So they're going to vote on a bunch of rules today. And we have to talk about them because just let's laugh about a couple of things. Okay. Number one.

When you hire a manager like Tony LaRouce or Jack McKin or somebody who may have a bum hip or a bad knee. Just picture sort of Lou from Major League right here, grumpy and you've got a mustache. This is my Friday voice.

Throw him the heat. You now have 30 seconds to do a mound visit. I love it. I wanted to eliminate mound visits altogether because I know what goes on during a mound visit. And it's simply to give the picture a breather to try to curb momentum. It's like calling a time out in a game in football to get a play in or to stop the clock in a clock game.

I don't understand time outs in an unclogged game. I don't understand mound visits. So what I wanted was times out. I wanted to give every team three time outs a game. That's it. You want a meeting at the mound. You want to give your picture a breath. Whatever you want to do. I don't care. It's a time out and you get three of them. That's it. Use them as you wish.

I wish it would have though given all the changes they're making because that would have made more sense. Now you have 30 seconds to do a mound visit. And it starts when the manager first leaves the dugout. That'll do it for old managers folks unless they're allowed some sort of segue. Can you imagine a motorized vehicle taking a manager from the dugout to the bullpen to the mound.

That's what you're going to need because frankly, there's some managers by the time they get out there. The clock's already done. Although maybe that's the point because there's nothing that goes on. Hey, how do you feel? Should we take you out of the game?

Can you get me one more out? I need you to get me to the ground. I'm going to be able to get a shot. I'm going to be able to get a shot. I'm going to be able to get a shot.

I need to get a shot. I need to get a shot. He's going to be able to get a shot. You can't see that's the point because there's nothing that goes on. Hey, how do you feel? Should we take you out of the game? Can you get me one more out? I need you to get me two more outs. Hey, I got no one warming up. It's all you. Hey, just take a breath. Remember our approach here. We're going to be throwing a slider well. You could have just call the slider. I would have thrown a slider.

And try not to give up a hit. All right. I'll try not to give up a hit that's a mound visit.

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