Re: 60 Minutes Andy Rooney\'s baseball thoughts
 

he has some points,

Yankees do make playoffs or win it a ton

A lot of teams do pull starting pitchers too early I would say and it does get annoying when you get 7 pitchers in one game

Re: 60 Minutes Andy Rooney\'s baseball thoughts
 

I actually think it would be interesting if a starting pitcher HAD to play a certain number of innings before he could be replaced.

And then any subsequent pitcher had to play AT LEAST one full inning, so no calling in the lefty to face one batter and then replacing him immediately afterwards.

It sure would speed the game up.

I'm actually mostly serious about this.

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Re: 60 Minutes Andy Rooney\'s baseball thoughts
 

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This wouldn't speed up the games if he was getting hammered and they couldn't pull him. Watching him throw BP for his mandatory 4th, 5th, and 6th innings would be torture.

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"There are 30 major league baseball teams, but sometimes it seems as though the New York Yankees are the only team that ever wins the World Series."


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The guy is almost 90. He's actually been alive for all 26 of the Yankees championships and probably old enough to remember 25 of them. Give him a break.

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The thing about the Yankees is that for people in their 30s, they really weren't very successful. They went 20 years without winning a World Series, all in the formative years of a mid 30s guy.

So yeah, a person who witnessed the late 30s, early 50s, and early 60s dominance will have a different opinion than someone who only saw them as winners in the 90s.

Re: 60 Minutes Andy Rooney\'s baseball thoughts
 

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/20...stly/#more-1812


From a few days ago, just found it in my Saturday morning reading

Re: 60 Minutes Andy Rooney\'s baseball thoughts
 

andy rooney is high from his meds obviously.

Re: 60 Minutes Andy Rooney\'s baseball thoughts
 

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Wandy Rodriguez HOU P
Jose Rodriguez - P
Ricardo Rodriguez - P
Nerio Rodriguez - P
Felix Rodriguez - P
Ricardo Rodriguez - P
Eddy Rodriguez - P
Wilfredo Rodriguez - P
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