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This final game of 2019 lasted three hours and 42 minutes. In that time a commercial airliner could have left Washington D.C. and flown to Houston, disembarked its passengers and still had 12 minutes left for them to see the end of the game. Keep in mind this was a nine inning game.
The average time of game in this year's world series was a tedious three hours and 46 minutes. The times I have used for all of these games has been published by Major League Baseball in each game's box-score.
All together it took 26 hours and 18 minutes to "play" the seven games. I doubt too many people watched all seven of the contests from start to finish. I certainly didn't have a day of my life to lose to these monumental snooze fests.
I wrote it yesterday and I am repeating it now. Wake up MLB. If you want your game to regain its position as the national past time you need to do something soon to speed up the games. The cosmetic changes you've made the last few years won't cut much time off of them.
I've written repeatedly that to resolve the problem you need to keep the batters in the box and the pitchers on the rubber. Make the umpires call the strike zone as it is written and stop granting time out to hitters whenever the mood strikes them. You also need to tell your television partners enough is enough. Cut back on the commercial breaks
between innings to 90 seconds. This will speed up the games and return them to the two to two and a half hour time frame most of us grew up watching.
All together it took 26 hours and 18 minutes to "play" the seven games. I doubt too many people watched all seven of the contests from start to finish. I certainly didn't have a day of my life to lose to these monumental snooze fests.
I wrote it yesterday and I am repeating it now. Wake up MLB. If you want your game to regain its position as the national past time you need to do something soon to speed up the games. The cosmetic changes you've made the last few years won't cut much time off of them.
I've written repeatedly that to resolve the problem you need to keep the batters in the box and the pitchers on the rubber. Make the umpires call the strike zone as it is written and stop granting time out to hitters whenever the mood strikes them. You also need to tell your television partners enough is enough. Cut back on the commercial breaks
between innings to 90 seconds. This will speed up the games and return them to the two to two and a half hour time frame most of us grew up watching.
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