Olympic baseball..what the hell?

[futaba.79]

If teams are tied after the 10th, each extra half-inning starts with men on 1st and 2nd with no outs and the manager gets to decides where the team is in the batting order. What kinda crap is this?

 

[dawgstudent]

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[Optimus Prime 4]

bases loaded no one out in the ninth. WTF?

 

[futaba.79]

the US got from Cuba?

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

nm

 

[futaba.79]

but we lost by the rules being used. So, it being a BS loss is because the rules are ********. According to the US coach, the cuban pitcher threw at our best player's head in our last at bat as part of their bunt defense. He ended up getting hit in the face off a deflected bunt attempt and had to leave the game - and we ended up with the loss. </p>

 

[Paper Dog]

And they don't do this stupid change the batting order

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

They also want to speed it up so that they arent there all day.

 

[Stansfield]

I thought they got rid of Olympic baseball?? They added these "BS"rules so that they could speed the game up. Once it gets to 10 innings, I mean come on, it's gotta end. It's not as exciting and kinetic as a football game, basketball game or soccer game going into sudden death overtime or a shoot out. You still have to sit there and watch a bunch of guys stand around waiting for someone to hit a ball. And then if you're lucky someone will move every few minutes. yawn...

 

[Todd4State]

but we lost by the rules being used. So, it being a BS loss is because the rules are ********. According to the US coach, the cuban pitcher threw at our
best player's head in our last at bat as part of their bunt defense. He ended up getting hit in the face off a deflected bunt attempt and had to leave the
game - and we ended up with the loss.</p>

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has by far the dirtiest team I have ever seen. They live up to their communist image well. I agree that the rules are BS. I am sure that they are doing this to "Speed up the games", but it's just not baseball. The other thing is China has a baseball league, so they have some other venues that they could play at, but that just makes too much sense.