[suzzer99]

So everyone hates the intentional walk. How about this idea? Each team can designate one player before the game as their superstar. If that player gets a 4-pitch walk, it moves any other players on the base paths one base.

So throw one strike - then fine you can intentionally walk. You want to intentionally walk Bonds with the bases empty? Fine. But most intentional walks happen with runners on 2nd and/or 3rd. Moving those runners over would defeat the whole purpose.

Thoughts? I don't think it's any weirder than the infield fly rule, or balks, or that you can run on strikeout but catcher drops the ball, or about a hundred other weird rules that theoretically diminish the "purity of the game".


Btw for many years I had the idea for NFL overtime that if the team who gets the ball first scores, the other team should get one chance to beat (not tie) that score.

So if the first-touch team gets a FG, second team has one chance to beat that with a TD. If the first team gets a TD+1, second team has one chance to get a TD+2. First team has the balls to go for TD+2 and make it, they win. But they wouldn't because that would leave them vulnerable to a TD+1. The game never gets extended more than one possession.

This is BEFORE the new OT rule, which is very similar. But I still think mine would be infinitely better.

Someone really needs to put me in touch with Goodell and Manfred to sort this out.