Baseball Games Still Way Too Long

[jjgold]

[Booya711]

And boring as fukk...cut the season in half

[jjgold]

I think 7 innings

[Booya711]

I think 7 innings

And not play the same team 3-4 days in a row

[Ra77er]

I went 2-0 today coach, tailed a hottie

[CanuckG]

Need more guys like Buerhle who pitch quick and get it over with

[teaserpleaser]

Does anybody watch baseball just for fun? I only watch it for action ....totally different experience at the ball park though horrible tv product though especially that instant replay as if the game wasn't slow enough.

[shooterman]

i can never get enough baseball. I grew up in the sixties and seventies. Whiny kunts like yourselves would have been hoisted up on the screens around home plate and left there for the crows. Bring back doubleheaders so you guys can really stomp your feet and cry yourself to sleep.

[jkladikos]

baseball sux way too long and boring now esp since the crackdown on steroids

[RollinDo]

Uh...still 9 innings...3 outs per frame.
Same time on shot clock too.

[daneblazer]

3 hour games
162 game season
1 game playoff.


what doesn't add up

[VegasPlayer]

It's not the game guys. Too many teams in MLB has diluted the talent pool especially pitching. The result is poor play and many lopsided unending games as managers struggle to find the guy that can put consecutive outs together in the late innings. DH in the AL does nothing to shorten a game either.

[jkladikos]

also no salary cap is ridiculous! how can you expect teams like the astros to ever be competitive when they couldnt even afford even one player's contrast on the yankees

[icecapper]

Went to a game yesterday and three little kids in front of me were on their phones the entire game. Big problem.

[jjgold]

too many pitching changes
too many mound visits

hitters playing around in box too long

[manny24]

most guys here only watch the box scores

couldn't tell a hanging slider from a knuckleball or an ass from elbows ball

[Booya711]

i can never get enough baseball. I grew up in the sixties and seventies. Whiny kunts like yourselves would have been hoisted up on the screens around home plate and left there for the crows. Bring back doubleheaders so you guys can really stomp your feet and cry yourself to sleep.

Did you also have to walk uphill in the snow to go to school?

[shooterman]

Judging by your posts you must be one of the leaders of the whiny kunt tribe. Baseball will be around long after your complaints are forgotten. Yeah, I walked to school. Did you, or did your parents think it was too far or uncomfortable for you?

[Booya711]

Judging by your posts you must be one of the leaders of the whiny kunt tribe. Baseball will be around long after your complaints are forgotten. Yeah, I walked to school. Did you, or did your parents think it was too far or uncomfortable for you?

i don't like baseball so why the fukk does it matter to you?? Newsflash old man...not everyone will agree with you

[daneblazer]

I love baseball but the season is too god damn long. The 1 game playoff after a 162 game season has to be the dumbest rule in sports. All star winner getting home field a close 2nd

[shooterman]

Ok young man. Did not realize that you just "don't like baseball". Newsflash young man, a lot of people do. They always will as long as they actually go outside and play it.

[riffraff24]

Your posts are way too long jj

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Did you also have to walk uphill in the snow to go to school?

Booyah he walked uphill in the snow BOTH WAYS.

It was rough back then.

[jjgold]

nobody even watches games in the stands anymore

the rule changes really did not help

[ithinkiamgood]

I wish they were longer more time to pound in live bets

[Microphone]

Went to a game yesterday and three little kids in front of me were on their phones the entire game. Big problem.

I'm afraid there are phone zombies everywhere, not just MLB games.

[eidolon]

Go watch the NBA if you want to watch a fast-paced sport.

[Cookie Monster]

It's not the game guys. Too many teams in MLB has diluted the talent pool especially pitching. The result is poor play and many lopsided unending games as managers struggle to find the guy that can put consecutive outs together in the late innings. DH in the AL does nothing to shorten a game either.

Too many teams diluted the pitching pool? There were 16 teams from 1900 to 1960, now 30 teams. The USA population has increased more than the teams, and consider that the pool of black people was excluded most of that period. Besides, now the teams have access to foreign pools (Latin America, Japan, etc). So the dilution of talent is a myth.

The batting / pitching balance has had ups and downs; from 1994-2009 favored the batters, but lately the pitchers are dominating. 2014 season was lowest in runs since 1981.

[smitch124]

I love it I wish there were 262 games!

[pavyracer]

The pitching changes and the visits to the mound have to be limited. That's where all the time is wasted. Game should be 2hrs max to bring fans back.

[jjgold]

The pitching changes and the visits to the mound have to be limited. That's where all the time is wasted. Game should be 2hrs max to bring fans back.

yes..its why soccer is the easiest sport in the world too watch

[flyingillini]

It's fine the way it is.

[MoMoneyMoVaughn]

Bring back railroading the catcher.

Introduce railroading firstbase

[VegasPlayer]

Too many teams diluted the pitching pool? There were 16 teams from 1900 to 1960, now 30 teams. The USA population has increased more than the teams, and consider that the pool of black people was excluded most of that period. Besides, now the teams have access to foreign pools (Latin America, Japan, etc). So the dilution of talent is a myth.

The batting / pitching balance has had ups and downs; from 1994-2009 favored the batters, but lately the pitchers are dominating. 2014 season was lowest in runs since 1981.

No myth. See Randy Wolf, Fernando Rodney et al.

[unusialsusp5]

yes..its why soccer is the easiest sport in the world too watch

and the most boring. watching eurotrash running up and down a field kicking a ball, then running back the other way over and over never hardly ever scoring. 900 different teams and leagues and none of it matters.