FoxTrot by Bill Amend for April 12, 2015

How is even one pitcher going to throw 81 glued-together balls?

The amount of perfect games would skyrocket.

What I hate about baseball is that they take too long between pitches. The endless staring and fidgeting. Throw the ball, already!!!

And then the pitcher is always striving for the 3-2. Can’t you just try and strike the guy out, without deliberately throwing balls?

Ugh. Baseball needs editing.

Baseball is a game that does involve some sitting around doing nothing on a pleasant summer afternoon. If that’s a problem, I think it’s more a problem with our workaholic society than with the game.

The biggest time reason for long games are the three minutes of tv ads between innings. In 1966 the average ad was 45 second. As Casey Stengel said, “You could look it up.”

I don’t think this is going to work. I don’t see a way for any one to score.

just know that the cubs will never win the world series. bunch of losers. the stadium is still not ready.

All you guys harshing on baseball clearly have never seen or played in a game. While watching baseball is extremley boring nothing is more exillirating than bieng at the game and watching the home team wallop one out of the park or feeling the ping of an alumin um bat making solid contact with a ball.

One problem I have is these guys that hit foul ball after foul ball after foul ball. Limiting how many foul balls a batter can hit before it’s considred the third strike would help shorten games, IMO.

all they have to do is ban hitting gloves and timeouts for TV

Take out the commercials. Problem solved.

“The Alvin Show” had a kid swing three bats at one ball. One swing meant three strikes.

This reminds me of The Simpsons episode in which Barney is on the wagon and goes to a baseball game. He is shown to be the only non-drinking fan in the stands and muses, “I never realized just how boring this game is.”

Does anyone else see that jason’s mouth is opened in the first pane’

Or 13122 balls glued together to end the season altogether with one great pitch.

If they hit a home run would it be 81 points?

It would be easy to speed the games up. Allow foul balls to be called as strikes, even if that’s the third strike.

Now, where did they get 92 baseballs?