However, as it is usually beneficial to have an odd number of matches in a series, the final home game is often awarded to the team that had the most success over the regular season. In most sports, this tends to be an important advantage which can be crucial. This is why there has been so many studies down about home field advantages, Because it comes down to crucial moments in sports, where the winner is not always the better team. The team just has a better backing from there fans and referees. As you see from these three studies home field advantage is very hard to find evidence that it is there.
Legalization would make the sport more fair and safer while giving more opportunities to those who weren’t lucky enough to be born with the amazing talents or abilities it takes to play in the MLB. While many would say it’s unethical, legalizing the use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball would completely revolutionize the sport. PED’s have been around for over a century and people will continue to find ways to beat the system. The benefits of PED usage far outweigh the negatives and should be taken into serious consideration about the legalization in the MLB. Clayton, M., B. Foddy, and J. Savulescu.
Using video technology to get plays called correctly does not take the human element out. When mistakes are made, the human element excuse is often given and that is a poor excuse. If a fielder tags a runner, he is out. The umpire should not determine the outcome (Sheehan 19). Players still have to make the plays happen.
There was no signal in dispute this time. Home plate umpire Tim Welke simply didn't see the ball hit Gonzalez and ruled the ball fair. However, upon seeing a replay after the ballgame, Welke told reporters that the ball did indeed hit Gonzalez. He didn't go so far as to say the play should have been called foul since he, nor any of his fellow umpires, saw the ball hit Gonzalez. But whether he admits it or not, Welke essentially said he made the wrong
Without some form of salary cap to mitigate the large market teams from spending on player salary at will, baseball is allowing its smaller market teams and their fans as well as the national popularity of the game of professional baseball to suffer. This gap which separates big market from small market isn’t just affecting a few of MLB’s 30 teams, but rather at least half of the teams are suffering due to the uncontrolled spending of a few big market teams.
Without any actors, athletes, or musicians the world would be a boring place because America is driven by entertainment. So there for, human capital value pays athletes. Undoubtedly, professional athletes deserve their money, but that doesn’t mean other professions do not deserve to be paid just as much. Athletes earn their money in different ways. Teachers, doctors, cops, and other beneficial careers get paid from our tax dollars; whereas our sports players get a small portion of our taxes and to top it off money from spendy fans.
Nonetheless, Baseball has become a sport that investors seem to prosper more from unlike Soccer. A reason to why baseball is not so popular to the rest of the world is due to the lack of international competitions established compared to the number of soccer events. Soccer is a sport that grows in popularity when it is played on an international level. Events such as the FIFA
They also thought that having a large empire would help to make them richer and more militarily powerful .People were greedy to get their hands on the colony for the sake of the money they can get. The idea of imperialism started after the Industrial Revolution. Many countries seen the new inventions and thought that they needed it to make their lives easier. So they gathered all the raw materials they can get and make those inventions to benefit them at their life. The other countries began to start feel jealous, so they did the same.
This is especially true in sports. Athletes in baseball and track and field only have a limited time, their playing careers, where they have high money making potential. Every year they struggle in their sport, it decreases their chances to maximize their earnings. If a baseball player can’t hit for power or average, they will be replaced in a highly competitive sport by other athletes who can. This leads players to look for an edge and increasingly in the past couple of decades this edge was
We have all been in some position where we cannot do anything about it because its part of the rules. Changing or broadening the rules like how rough is too rough and the timing of late hits, would increase the enjoyment of the viewer. The less time there is being spent on explaining penalties the more the spectators are going to watch and invest there money in watching the games. If the spectator is happy then everyone is happy, the teams’ revenue would go up, fans would get more for their money, and the officials would not get such a bad reputation as being the ones that slow the game down. As you watch your next football game, you will see that the rules need to be revised.