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Batter up, guys! Home run grand slam he's safe...


...but for how long? What are some ways and tips you think would improve the sport of baseball. I love sports, here are some ideas (from me):

1. Rename the "designated hitter" position to "slam boy"

2. Add a fourth base but don't tell anyone where it is

3. Put REAL toys back in the dang cracker jacks

4. Free tribal armbands for the first 5000 fans at each game even if they don't want them

5. All teams named after a breakfast cereal thanks

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Zorodius

EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.
ideally i would like to see most positions played by puppies

posting smiling
runners wear roller blades. outfielders wear moon shoes(). basemen replaced by the spinning jousting dummies that always knock people off their horse in movies. pitcher has to yell the name of the pitch as they do it, like a super hero move.

Orkin Mang

by FactsAreUseless
cocaine

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and Chesterfield Kings

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  • if a batter beans a fieldsman.... MULTIBALL
  • tied in the last inning? have a sudden death 'golden' 'goal' as in soccer, or football. two batters enter... one leaves.
  • ballboys
  • some of us have grass allergies. let's play on tarmac
  • why is the baseball song always the baseball song? let it be 'muskrat love' every tuesday or so.
  • bats too phallic, scare away female audience. replace with orchids
  • ressurect ty cobb
  • walk, don't run....
  • in middle school nobody ever picked me for the baseball team
  • nobody ever truly 'wins' baseball as it just continues on arbitrarily into the future. i hereby decalre baseball over. boston won or something
  • i wish that one guy would run faster

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they already did that in the 80s.

Elusif

Replace bat with hanzo steel.

Orkin Mang

by FactsAreUseless

E Equals MC Hammer posted:

Replace bat with hanzo steel.

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free Trapt CD posted:

  • if a batter beans a fieldsman.... MULTIBALL

lmbo

Dads Dip Cup

I think the field should be randomly littered with fun little invisible traps that activate when stepped upon. Basically like landmines but nothing too dangerous, maybe it litters the area with banana peels or forces the player to run backwards for the rest of the inning, perhaps ties his shoelaces together when he isn't looking

people would complain about the game no longer being fair and based on random chance, but frankly those are the types of people that always whine when they lose at Mario Kart because their friend always gets the blue shell and nobody likes that guy

poverty goat



lava

Pot Smoke Phoenix



Smoke 'em if you gottem!
FULL. CONTACT. BASEBALL.

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Pot Smoke Phoenix



Smoke 'em if you gottem!
Ice Baseball would be cool, hockey fights and foul balls; win-win for everyone!

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City of Glompton

free Trapt CD posted:

  • if a batter beans a fieldsman.... MULTIBALL
  • tied in the last inning? have a sudden death 'golden' 'goal' as in soccer, or football. two batters enter... one leaves.
  • ballboys
  • some of us have grass allergies. let's play on tarmac
  • why is the baseball song always the baseball song? let it be 'muskrat love' every tuesday or so.
  • bats too phallic, scare away female audience. replace with orchids
  • ressurect ty cobb
  • walk, don't run....
  • in middle school nobody ever picked me for the baseball team
  • nobody ever truly 'wins' baseball as it just continues on arbitrarily into the future. i hereby decalre baseball over. boston won or something
  • i wish that one guy would run faster


thank you PSP for the beautiful spring sig

a messed up horse

by Nyc_Tattoo

free Trapt CD posted:

  • if a batter beans a fieldsman.... MULTIBALL
  • tied in the last inning? have a sudden death 'golden' 'goal' as in soccer, or football. two batters enter... one leaves.
  • ballboys
  • some of us have grass allergies. let's play on tarmac
  • why is the baseball song always the baseball song? let it be 'muskrat love' every tuesday or so.
  • bats too phallic, scare away female audience. replace with orchids
  • ressurect ty cobb
  • walk, don't run....
  • in middle school nobody ever picked me for the baseball team
  • nobody ever truly 'wins' baseball as it just continues on arbitrarily into the future. i hereby decalre baseball over. boston won or something
  • i wish that one guy would run faster

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Manifisto


the field is white. the bases and equipment are white. the uniforms are plain white. at least, at the start of the game.

the balls (also white) are filled with colored paint. they are pretty sturdy, but they have maybe like a 5-10% chance of exploding upon being hit/caught/thrown, showering everything with color.

night games are the same, except they're played on a black field with black uniforms under black lights, and the balls are filled with fluorescent paint


ty nesamdoom!

a messed up horse

by Nyc_Tattoo
umpires have to use their inside voice

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Bandiet

A little spike on one end of the ball.

social vegan



all the bases are islands in a field of waist deep water

misty mountaintop

by Hand Knit

E Equals MC Hammer posted:

Replace bat with hanzo steel.

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City of Glompton

Jerry Mumphrey posted:

I think it could be as easy as changing the names of some of the pitches:

fastballs --> swiftdogs

curveballs --> wiggly boys

change ups --> deceptoes

knuckleballs --> no need to change this, already a hilarious name

think of a stuffy old baseball announcer being like "whoa the batter sure wasn't expecting to get a wiggly boy in a swiftdog count". fun right?

also there should be mascot parades after most innings

now it's your turn to say things

Macnult posted:

before taking a walk the player at bat must perform their best dance move. style points are awarded for every dance move and 3 points = 1 run for a team

Serious Frolicking posted:

i think they should let even the teams who aren't very good at baseball win sometimes. it always makes my mom sad when playing the song about how the cubs are gonna win today does not, in fact, make the cubs win.

Jerry Mumphrey posted:

or maybe if a really good team is playing a really bad team the good team can loan them their best player. he would probably have fun having a whole new group of teammates for a game too!

DickBastardly posted:

Heated arguments between the coach and umpire should be decided by an intense break dancing battle in which over the course of the battle each dugout slowly adds another dancer to meet and battle their counter part from the other team. The organ player lays down a funky 80's inspired tune and gets the crowd really hype, sometimes fans battle each other in the stands and adds to the overall argument against the other team. And there's always one player who brings a cool karate weapon like nunchaku and dresses in his break dance battle dress just for this occasion, it usually has a tiger stripe pattern headband and vest and lose fitting karategi (martial arts uniform) but he never actually uses his weapon, just swings it around in an intimidating funky break dance fashion.


thank you PSP for the beautiful spring sig

Jerry Mumphrey

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

it's weird I didn't see this thread earlier, guess I really "fouled" it up

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symbolic

one player on each team has to play wearing the team's mascot suit

Mousedoodler

posting smiling posted:

pitcher has to yell the name of the pitch as they do it, like a super hero move.

this might encourage the more villainous players to call out false names, adding an element of surprise to the new game

Pot Smoke Phoenix



Smoke 'em if you gottem!
Baseball but mixed with hot potato rules AND lava floor except for the bases. Think about it...

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everyone gets a sandwich i guess

alnilam

Splatmaster posted:

Baseball but mixed with hot potato rules AND lava floor except for the bases. Think about it...

it's pretty much already lava floor but everyone has anti lava boots but getting tagged with the lethal combo of the ball in a glove deactivates them

obv a force out happens because you know you can't safely get to the next lava sanctuary without the guy tagging you so you just give up

misty mountaintop

by Hand Knit
Keep it the same but call it Dickball instead.

misty mountaintop

by Hand Knit
And make the pants tighter.

alnilam

misty mountaintop posted:

Keep it the same but call it Dickball instead.

that name is already taken I'm afraid

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alnilam posted:

that name is already taken I'm afraid

ya, Dick Ball taught me phys ed in 7th grade

Zorodius

EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.
I think the team with the cutest puppy should win

fuck. marry. t-rex

All the base lines are balance beams and if you fall off you're out. Basemen have to inch along as well to break pickles and if they fall they are out of the play.

fuck. marry. t-rex

Also make the infield all islands and flood all the grass areas

Twerkteam Pizza

I say instead of doing that pitching poo poo the guy on the mound just shoots the ball out of a t shirt gun

mysterious frankie

This displeases Dev- ..van. Shut up.
all the players come out on the field in uniform and play virtual baseball against each other with virtual reality goggles on. watching people flop around while wearing those things is pretty darn entertaining and could easily become americas next great pastime.

baseball is light on plot. have every season have an overarching story, like a murder mystery or a political thriller.

all players are required to care for one of those robotic training babies they give high school girls in home economics class all throughout the games.

have training camps take place on planets with more gravity, create super players.

all seats have pee troughs now, so I can pee at will.

the peanut vendors tell your fortune when you buy peanuts, are pretty good at it.

fewer mass shootings. just in general.

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Could the universe and starts be an enlarged reflection of the atomic world?

Commie NedFlanders

Giant targets in the stands for home run hitters with yellow orange and red concentric circles like s bulls eye target and you get more points for hitting one in the target


Players should have more extravagant costumes like WWE wrestlers do


Every time s pitcher strikes someone out he has to take a drink

Every time someone hits a home run they have to chug a beer

During the 7th inning stretch everyone stops and bows their head in prayer to e Lord

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Love God, Love Thy Neighbor
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Commie NedFlanders

When s player is running to thr base and the ball is passed to who's on first, the runner may choose to challenge it and avoid being OUT by successfully pinning the opposing player's shoulders but If the running player gets pinned they are not only out but they remain ineligible to bat through the next inning

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Love God, Love Thy Neighbor
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Worldshatter

:kazooieass:PEPSI for TV-GAME:kazooieass:



the game is played atop a series of floating, rapidly moving platforms which must be jumped between while members of the opposing team attempt to knock you off into the Mcdonald's Pit of Doom and Despair™

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jazzyhattrick

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
All televised footage of games to be shot from that under the balls camera angle they have in porn.

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