A Rule Change...

[DOUGHBOYS]

I'm of the opinion that the NFBC needs to change pitching rules to give us more freedoms for inserting pitchers. Since the NFBC started in 2004, we have had the same pitching rules (Monday only), except for a failed attempt with dl rules.
Times have changed and more and more pitchers do not pitch during a week for a variety of reasons.
I'll quit right here. This post is not being made to persuade or dissuade any thoughts on that subject.

It is merely laying the groundwork for another time and another rule change. A rule change that illustrates just how hard it is to change ANY rule. In changing any rule in baseball or fantasy baseball, there wil be a backlash in how the current rule has served us well for so many years.
So, why change?

We change because times change. But, ALWAYS, there will be those opposed to change. No matter the rule change.
Here is a no-brainer example.....

The time is 1953. Up till this time, fielders have always left their gloves on the field instead of carrying them to the bench.
Now, the execs of baseball says it makes the field "Clunky". Execs were also concerned with players falling on gloves or batted balls striking them.
This possible rule change was met with derision and criticism from players and Managers alike.
American League owners were polled and voted 7-1 against the rule change.
84 year old Clark Griffith stated that in 67 years of baseball, " I have seen a baseball strike a glove just one time. It never effected the play. It ws a single and stayed a single!"

White Sox Manager Paul Richards said, "The game will be changed too much. A guy gets on base and has to run to the dugout three times a game instead of going out to his position. He'll be pooped!

Richie Ashburn took the mathematics approach. "I get on base 300 times a year. I score 100 times a year. That means I have to run back to the dugout to go get my glove 200 times.
If they wnt to make the field cleaner and tidier, tell 'em to plant flowers!"

Then there was the 'chicken big' approach. This approach is used to make others think about the worst that could happen should a rule change occur.
First from Joe Cronin.
"Suppose a situation called for a club to stall?
And a player went to the umpire saying that he had mis-laid his glove?
Could that umpire force that player to take the field before finding his glove?"

Then this from Lou Boudreau.
"What if we wanted to stall for more rain to not make it a legal game?
My center fielder could forget to take his glove out to his position with him. Only to jog all the way in to retrieve his glove.
Or the same thing could happen if wanting to warm up a reliever. It is like faking an injury in football to stop time."

Ford Frick, the Commisioner of baseball, tired of the rhetoric.
On the day before the 1954 season, he sent an edict telling each club that this was going to be the new rule. That any reports of non-adherence to the new rule would be met with reprimends, fines, and even forfeitures of games.

The result?
Nothing.
All players and teams adhered to the new rule. There were no stalling tactics. No lost and found gloves.
No big deal.
In fact, players realized that they could actually bring another players glove out to a teammate if he were left on the bases.
Brilliant!
A few years later, as now, nobody could remember gloves ever being left on the field at all.

[Captain Hook]

It has my vote