Don\u2019t know\/No opinion<\/strong><\/td>\n| 17%<\/td>\n | 12%<\/td>\n | 24%<\/td>\n | 9%<\/td>\n | 13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n Opening day of the 2021 Major League Baseball season is April 1st<\/sup>. This year, a full 162 game schedule is planned and many teams have stated they will allow a limited number of fans in the stands for opening day and throughout the year.<\/p>\nQ9.<\/strong> How much more or less excited are you about this baseball season compare to last year\u2019s baseball season (2020)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n| N=1,538<\/p>\n <\/td>\n | General<\/p>\n Population<\/td>\n | Sports<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Non Fan<\/td>\n | Avid<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Casual<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nExcited<\/strong><\/td>\n| 27%<\/td>\n | 42%<\/td>\n | 7%<\/td>\n | 58%<\/td>\n | 36%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nNeither more excited nor less excited<\/strong><\/td>\n| 39%<\/td>\n | 39%<\/td>\n | 40%<\/td>\n | 29%<\/td>\n | 42%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nLess excited<\/strong><\/td>\n| 10%<\/td>\n | 10%<\/td>\n | 11%<\/td>\n | 8%<\/td>\n | 11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDon\u2019t know\/No opinion<\/strong><\/td>\n| 24%<\/td>\n | 9%<\/td>\n | 42%<\/td>\n | 5%<\/td>\n | 11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n Bottom of Form<\/p>\n Major League Baseball experimented with some rule changes in the year 2020, some of which could become permanent starting in the 2022 season. To what extent do you agree or disagree with MLB and the Players Association permanently implementing these rule changes starting next year (i.e., for the 2022 MLB season)?<\/p>\n Here are the significant rule changes. Do you agree or disagree with MLB and the Players Association implementing these rule changes starting next year?<\/p>\n Q10a. <\/strong>The National League should add the designated hitter (DH)<\/p>\n\n\n\n| N=1,538<\/p>\n <\/td>\n | General<\/p>\n Population<\/td>\n | Sports<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Non Fan<\/td>\n | Avid<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Casual<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nAgree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 29%<\/td>\n | 42%<\/td>\n | 9%<\/td>\n | 57%<\/td>\n | 36%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nNeither agree nor disagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 22%<\/td>\n | 23%<\/td>\n | 21%<\/td>\n | 17%<\/td>\n | 25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDisagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 14%<\/td>\n | 18%<\/td>\n | 8%<\/td>\n | 17%<\/td>\n | 19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDon\u2019t know\/No opinion<\/strong><\/td>\n| 35%<\/td>\n | 17%<\/td>\n | 62%<\/td>\n | 9%<\/td>\n | 20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n Q10b<\/strong>. If there are extra innings, start each extra inning with a runner on second base<\/p>\n\n\n\n| N=1,538<\/p>\n <\/td>\n | General<\/p>\n Population<\/td>\n | Sports<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Non Fan<\/td>\n | Avid<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Casual<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nAgree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 17%<\/td>\n | 28%<\/td>\n | 5%<\/td>\n | 41%<\/td>\n | 22%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nNeither agree nor disagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 18%<\/td>\n | 18%<\/td>\n | 17%<\/td>\n | 17%<\/td>\n | 18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDisagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 33%<\/td>\n | 40%<\/td>\n | 24%<\/td>\n | 34%<\/td>\n | 43%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDon\u2019t know\/No opinion<\/strong><\/td>\n| 32%<\/td>\n | 14%<\/td>\n | 54%<\/td>\n | 8%<\/td>\n | 17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n Q10c.<\/strong> Have all doubleheaders be seven-inning games<\/p>\n\n\n\n| N=1,538<\/p>\n <\/td>\n | General<\/p>\n Population<\/td>\n | Sports<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Non Fan<\/td>\n | Avid<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Casual<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nAgree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 26%<\/td>\n | 38%<\/td>\n | 9%<\/td>\n | 52%<\/td>\n | 33%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nNeither agree nor disagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 21%<\/td>\n | 20%<\/td>\n | 22%<\/td>\n | 19%<\/td>\n | 21%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDisagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 20%<\/td>\n | 27%<\/td>\n | 12%<\/td>\n | 22%<\/td>\n | 28%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDon\u2019t know\/No opinion<\/strong><\/td>\n| 33%<\/td>\n | 15%<\/td>\n | 57%<\/td>\n | 7%<\/td>\n | 18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n Q10d<\/strong>. Require relief pitchers to face at least three batters (unless finishing an inning)<\/p>\n\n\n\n| N=1,538<\/p>\n <\/td>\n | General<\/p>\n Population<\/td>\n | Sports<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Non Fan<\/td>\n | Avid<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Casual<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nAgree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 30%<\/td>\n | 44%<\/td>\n | 12%<\/td>\n | 58%<\/td>\n | 38%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nNeither agree nor disagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 21%<\/td>\n | 21%<\/td>\n | 21%<\/td>\n | 16%<\/td>\n | 23%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDisagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 15%<\/td>\n | 20%<\/td>\n | 8%<\/td>\n | 18%<\/td>\n | 21%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDon\u2019t know\/No opinion<\/strong><\/td>\n| 34%<\/td>\n | 15%<\/td>\n | 59%<\/td>\n | 8%<\/td>\n | 18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n Q10e.<\/strong> Expand the post-season\u00a0to 16 teams, from 10 with more wild-card selections<\/p>\n\n\n\n| N=1,538<\/p>\n <\/td>\n | General<\/p>\n Population<\/td>\n | Sports<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Non Fan<\/td>\n | Avid<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Casual<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nAgree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 25%<\/td>\n | 37%<\/td>\n | 10%<\/td>\n | 50%<\/td>\n | 32%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nNeither agree nor disagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 22%<\/td>\n | 24%<\/td>\n | 19%<\/td>\n | 21%<\/td>\n | 26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDisagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 19%<\/td>\n | 24%<\/td>\n | 12%<\/td>\n | 19%<\/td>\n | 26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDon\u2019t know\/No opinion<\/strong><\/td>\n| 34%<\/td>\n | 15%<\/td>\n | 59%<\/td>\n | 10%<\/td>\n | 16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n Q10f.<\/strong> Deaden baseballs to reduce home runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n| N=1,538<\/p>\n <\/td>\n | General<\/p>\n Population<\/td>\n | Sports<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Non Fan<\/td>\n | Avid<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n | Casual<\/p>\n Fan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nAgree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 14%<\/td>\n | 21%<\/td>\n | 4%<\/td>\n | 38%<\/td>\n | 14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nNeither agree nor disagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 19%<\/td>\n | 21%<\/td>\n | 16%<\/td>\n | 19%<\/td>\n | 22%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDisagree<\/strong><\/td>\n| 36%<\/td>\n | 44%<\/td>\n | 26%<\/td>\n | 34%<\/td>\n | 48%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nDon\u2019t know\/No opinion<\/strong><\/td>\n| 31%<\/td>\n | 14%<\/td>\n | 54%<\/td>\n | 9%<\/td>\n | 16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n| <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n ABOUT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY<\/strong><\/p>\nOne of the country\u2019s leading Catholic universities, Seton Hall has been showing the world what great minds can do since 1856. Home to nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students and offering more than 90 rigorous academic programs, Seton Hall\u2019s academic excellence has been singled out for distinction by The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek.<\/p>\n Seton Hall embraces students of all religions and prepares them to be exemplary servant leaders and global citizens. In recent years, the University has achieved extraordinary success. Since 2009, it has seen record-breaking undergraduate enrollment growth and an impressive 110-point increase in the average SAT scores of incoming freshmen. In the past decade, Seton Hall students and alumni have received more than 30 Fulbright Scholarships as well as other prestigious academic honors, including Boren Awards, Pickering Fellowships, Udall Scholarships and a Rhodes Scholarship. The University is also proud to be among the\u00a0most diverse national Catholic universities\u00a0in the country.<\/p>\n During the past five years, the University has invested more than $165 million in new campus buildings and renovations. And in 2015, Seton Hall launched a School of Medicine as well as a College of Communication and the Arts. The University\u2019s beautiful main campus in suburban South Orange, N.J. is only 14 miles from New York City \u2014 offering students a wealth of employment, internship, cultural and entertainment opportunities. Seton Hall\u2019s nationally recognized School of Law is located prominently in downtown Newark. The University\u2019s Interprofessional Health Sciences (IHS) campus in Clifton and Nutley, N.J. opened in the summer of 2018. The IHS campus houses the University\u2019s College of Nursing, School of Health and Medical Sciences and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University.<\/p>\n For more information, visit www.shu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Orange NJ, March 25, 2021\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Faced with declining attendance every season since 2013 (excluding the Covid-shortened 2020 season), Major League Baseball is looking at rule changes to speed up the game and maybe win back the hearts of its fans.…<\/p>\n Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,4,7,10],"tags":[22,282,284,285,25,281,59,167,17,283,18],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-baseball-sport","category-poll-results","category-professional","category-sport","tag-baseball","tag-deaden-baseball","tag-expanding-the-post-season","tag-extra-innings-with-man-on-second","tag-mlb","tag-nl-dl","tag-poll-results","tag-rule-changes","tag-seton-hall-sports-poll","tag-seven-inning-doubleheaders","tag-sharkey-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/files\/2015\/10\/Seton-Hall-University-Stillman-School-of-Business-e1446518788655-300x125.jpg\")
South Orange NJ, March 25, 2021\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Faced with declining attendance every season since 2013 (excluding the Covid-shortened 2020 season), Major League Baseball is looking at rule changes to speed up the game and maybe win back the hearts of its fans.<\/p>\n