McCovey Chronicles · Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday BP: MLB continues silliness with rules
Happy Valentine’s Day, San Francisco Giants fans. Who’s your valentine this year? Mine’s Brandon Crawford. Oh, you want him to? Sorry, already called him.
Nothing can harsh my baseball mellow right now, because Giants pitchers and catchers report in two days and I’m very excited.
But if something could harsh my mellow, it would be commissioner Rob Manfred and his silly rules.
On Monday it was reported that MLB’s Competition Committee had unanimously voted to make the extra innings rule — dubbed ‘round these parts as the “Manfred Man” — permanent.