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MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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302 points cf100clunk | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 15:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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lern_too_spel ◴[31 Mar 25 15:55 UTC] No.43536443[source]▶
Good. Baseball isn't a serious spectator sport. It's only interesting to statisticians. Now there will be more work for them to do, adjusting for bat type in addition to stadium dimensions, rule changes, etc. to compare players across eras. And more HRs might make it a little more interesting to spectators as long as the OBP doesn't increase to prolong an already too long game.
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d35007 ◴[31 Mar 25 16:06 UTC] No.43536589[source]▶
> Good. Baseball isn't a serious spectator sport. It's only interesting to statisticians

What makes a spectator sport "serious"?

The average MLB game had almost 30,000 spectators in the 2024 season[1]. That's a lot of statisticians.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2024/10/01/mlb-atten...

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lern_too_spel ◴[31 Mar 25 16:15 UTC] No.43536691[source]▶
You can put a basketball game on anywhere in the world, and people will watch it, even if they haven't watched basketball before. People only watch baseball out of tradition. MLB didn't even have a play clock until 2023, letting batters step out of the box at whim and create even longer periods with no action.
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paulcole ◴[31 Mar 25 16:23 UTC] No.43536802[source]▶
> You can put a basketball game on anywhere in the world, and people will watch it, even if they haven't watched basketball before

What the heck is this confident assertion based on?

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lern_too_spel ◴[31 Mar 25 16:27 UTC] No.43536841[source]▶
From showing basketball to people who haven't watched a basketball game before.
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daedrdev ◴[31 Mar 25 21:23 UTC] No.43540138[source]▶
Uhh basketball has plenty of issues, like 6 timeouts in the last two minutes, way to many 3s, traveling everywhere that make it hard to watch.
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1. lern_too_spel ◴[01 Apr 25 05:27 UTC] No.43543137[source]▶
How do three pointers or uncalled fouls make a game hard to watch? If anything, they make it easier for a first time watcher. Timeouts in the last few minutes happen only when the game is close, prolonging the suspense. If the game isn't close, it ends faster.