Former GM Steve Phillips embraces the idea of starting every hitter with a 1-1 count to speed up the game. Well this is a frightening idea! If there’s something sacred and forever protected in the game, it should be three strikes and four balls. Why not just start eliminating outs from the 27, for shits sake. Imagine what this would do to the baseball record book!? [NY Daily News]

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