Create your own adventure--Jacob Young

Prompt 1: If you could become invisible for a day, what would you do? Prompt 2: If you could travel back in time to any point in history and bring one modern-day item, where would you go and what would you bring? Prompt 3: Do you agree with the new rule 7:13 in Major League Baseball? If you could change the rule, what would you have it say? ANSWER TO PROMPT 3:
First of all, for all of those who do not know what this rule says, the concept is simple. A catcher may not position himself in front of the plate so as an incoming runner from third could run into him, causing a collision. Rather, the catcher must stand off to the side of home plate, leaving an open path for the runner to slide. This rule changes a few things. The first thing is that more runners will be safe at home. Since the catcher is not allowed to block the plate, the runner has a clear path to slide, making it considerably harder for catchers to tag runners out. This has also caused discontent among players, coaches, and managers alike. The fact that the entire outcome of a game can potentially be decided on an official's review of where exactly the catcher has positioned himself and whether or not they umpires think the runner had a clear path to the plate is ridiculous. Nobody likes this rule, except for perhaps the parents of MLB catchers. The reason that the rule was out in place is to prevent these collisions between runners and catchers that could potentially injure the runner, catcher, or both. One of the catalysts of this rule was the collision that San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey was involved in that nearly ended his career. However I, alongside many others, still disagree with the rule. The rule says that it wishes to prevent catchers from getting hurt, but at what cost? Outcomes of games are being decided by this rule. Just the other day I was watching baseball and I saw this very situation happen. It was 0-0 in the eighth inning, a game between the Giants and Nationals. As you may or may not know, now in baseball it is the playoffs, so every game is a big deal. The Nationals pitcher gave up a walk, and then a pair of singles. On the second single the runner, Buster Posey, attempted to score from second on the single. As he slid into home the catcher, Wilson Ramos, positioned himself to the side of the plate and made the tag. After review the runner was called out. However, this review took almost 10 minutes. It may not seem like much, but 10 minutes for a pitcher in between pitches is a long time. After that review took forever the pitcher gave up a pair of runs that ended up being the final runs of the game. If not for this unnecessary reviewing of where exactly Ramos was standing, it caused the pitcher to mess up his rhythm and give up runs that decided the game.
In short, this rule is stupid. I understand that the league wants to protect its players, but in reality very few catchers ever get in these sort of collisions, and even fewer suffer an injury. The majority of the league and its fans strongly dislike this rule, seeing as it was not intended to decide games, yet it has indeed come to that, even in the playoffs, where every pitch of every inning of every game is of the utmost importance.