It’s been amusing to watch the national media gnash its teeth over the new rules, which for us are old hat*. Almost as if they didn’t pay attention to what was going on in the minors for the past two seasons or that MLB told us that many of these experimental rules could come to fruition.
* Old hat? Maybe it’s appropriate you chose to use a pic of Boomer
So for a little while, we’ll have to deal with the two-spacers complaining about the new rules until they suddenly notice games moving along at the pace that they used to, back when there was a reason to use two spaces.
Or perhaps it’ll be a resurgence in basestealing. Maybe not to where it was in the 70s and 80s, but certainly it’ll look more like 1983 than 1953.
But I digress. For the next three weeks or so, we’ll pretend that it’s not specious for a minors site to write about spring training. When it becomes apparent that most of “our guys” have been relegated to the backfields, we’ll shift gears and wait for the start of the Red Wings season five weeks from today.