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Of course, a substantial number would go more, but most would be over in three innings of less.
Imagine:
Every matchup is either a triple-header or quadruple-header. Teams play until a win, then start the next game after a 15-minute break. Seasons are 500 games (nice, round number). The World Series becomes a best-of-25 affair.
Consequences:
The top of the batting order becomes a lot more important. Good pitchers routinely have 60-win seasons. No-hitters become ridiculously common.
All in all? Perfect. I'm surprised they haven't done this yet.
To make it a more interesting game (and 'diverse'), all players should be required to wear 5-inch pumps. Catchers should wear Madonna cones as a chest protector and these should light up after a pitcher throws a strike. Every third pitch should be thrown from the pitcher's non-dominant hand. The outfield fences should be rainbow-colored, and if a ball hits a color, that color glitter should fall from the upper decks onto the field.
That should do it.
Of course, a substantial number would go more, but most would be over in three innings of less.
Imagine:
Every matchup is either a triple-header or quadruple-header. Teams play until a win, then start the next game after a 15-minute break. Seasons are 500 games (nice, round number). The World Series becomes a best-of-25 affair.
Consequences:
The top of the batting order becomes a lot more important. Good pitchers routinely have 60-win seasons. No-hitters become ridiculously common.
All in all? Perfect. I'm surprised they haven't done this yet.
C'mon, Selig!
i could go along with that as long as they change the number of outs for each half of the inning to 27.
Meh... going from 9 innings to 8 does nothing in my opinion. This is like the NBA toying with the idea of reducing each quarter by 1 minute... just doesn't make much of a difference.
Shortening the seasons.... now that should be considered.
To go back to my point about NBA games... like I said.. shortening the game by 1 minute won't do anything.. in fact I think the timing of each quarter is just fine. HOWEVER... it's the last minutes of each game that drag on and drag on with timeouts, taking fouls on purpose, commercials, and reviews that drag games on forever.
I just read this example in regards to the Kincks-Pistons game the other night, "The final 42 seconds of Wednesday’s Knicks-Pistons game ran — I kid you not — 20 minutes, 12 seconds! It took 1,212 seconds to play 42. With 42 seconds left, you could have ordered a pizza, picked it up, driven home and not missed the end!".
So yeah.. stuff like this is what's wrong.
To go back to baseball... maybe if players would stop stepping out of the box after every pitch to adjust their balls, gloves, helmets, take 3 practice swings, and whatever pre-batters box rituals.. games may end at respectable times.
To go back to my point about NBA games... like I said.. shortening the game by 1 minute won't do anything.. in fact I think the timing of each quarter is just fine. HOWEVER... it's the last minutes of each game that drag on and drag on with timeouts, taking fouls on purpose, commercials, and reviews that drag games on forever.
I just read this example in regards to the Kincks-Pistons game the other night, "The final 42 seconds of Wednesday’s Knicks-Pistons game ran — I kid you not — 20 minutes, 12 seconds! It took 1,212 seconds to play 42. With 42 seconds left, you could have ordered a pizza, picked it up, driven home and not missed the end!".
So yeah.. stuff like this is what's wrong.
To go back to baseball... maybe if players would stop stepping out of the box after every pitch to adjust their balls, gloves, helmets, take 3 practice swings, and whatever pre-batters box rituals.. games may end at respectable times.
You hit it. I guess that's what I'm going for...to reduce games to 2 hours and 30 minutes tops.
Btw, interesting story on the Knicks Pistons final seconds.
You hit it. I guess that's what I'm going for...to reduce games to 2 hours and 30 minutes tops.
Btw, interesting story on the Knicks Pistons final seconds.
how about extending your attention span to four hours? baseball, like auto racing, cant be artificially compressed into a neat tidy package made for TV. it goes as long as it goes. i have seen pitcher duel batter for ten mintues, and i have seen innings be over in five minutes.
To me records mean a lot. If you followed MLB you know who has the most HR, won 7 batting titles, won multiple cy youngs, mvps etc.
Now we want to change the game for less innings for what?
Leave it alone. Just find ways to speed up the game such as getting the pitcher to pitch faster, they have done this but why take so long between pitches like they do?
Batters coming to the plate at the beginning of an inning take their own time getting to the plate.
So much time could be shaved off the game by doing little things.
I would like to see Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmerio, ARod and many others records removed from the record books but it wont happen because they allowed these cheaters to continue.
ARod admits he cheated but now can come back to play when one of the best players ever in Pete Rose is not in the HOF? Rose never cheated as a player.
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