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Joe and Mike get out all their Yankees frustrations as Rolling Stone critic Alan Sepinwall returns to the PosCast after his long suspension. Alan breaks down the top five television characters he would like to have serve him food at a ballgame. Joe and Mike also announce the first PosCast charity partner — the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City — and talk about the museum with President Bob Kendrick.
Pitch clock - good ghod, yes! But what might be an even more interesting improvement would be to steal from soccer: limit the number of substitutions. You could limit the limit to pitchers and allow a team to make at most 3 (or 4, or whatever) pitching changes in a game, or you could include all swaps: pinch hitters, fielding changes, etc... . You'd have to allow additional swaps in extra innings, maybe one more every two innings? Limiting subs would speed up the game and open up a world of new strategic possibilities. And make Shohei Ohtani even more valuable, and encourage teams to develop more two-way players.
I'm on Sepinwall's side. Red Sox fans have become insufferable and their team is as bad, if not worse, than the Yankees in all the ways the Yankees used to be "evil." As a fan of a now long-suffering NL team, I find both teams annoying. I would take a Yankees championship over a Red Sox championship every day now. But the truth is that both teams could stop playing each other for a decade before I started to find the matchup exciting again.
Schur using twitter to complain about every dodgy call against the Red Sox since mid-July only supports my case. I hope the Red Sox and Schur get their comeuppance soon. Go Blue Jays.