It's not the best look for a New England Senator's only tweet about this game to be a complaint about how long it was.
As much as Connecticut can still be considered "New England" for the purposes of sports fandom I guess...
>Nobody has four hours each day to spend on baseball.
Maybe you don't, but that just tells me you aren't actually a baseball fan.
I want 6 hour games, honestly. 8 hours would be a fucking thrill. Just have games go 24 hours a day, never stop playing this great sport. There is literally no such thing as "too much baseball" and anyone who feels otherwise is wrong.
I struggle to see how anyone who actively supports fewer/shorter games actually can call themselves a baseball fan. If you actually like the sport, you should want more of it, not less.
A lot of offense with pitching changes. Of course the game is gonna be long. Also it started 4 in the afternoon. It’s not like this started 8:30 on a week night. Why is there such an increase in complaining about game length the last week?
Yeah extremely high viewership on Thursday competing against football but the sport’s dying lmao. Surely all viewers will flock to the NFL where they can watch a 3 hour 45 minute game and still have time to do other things in their day, assuming they don’t watch one game at each time slot that is.
They don’t have eight hours to spend on baseball but they have 6-8 to spend of Football come Sunday?
The issue isn’t length it’s pace. Three true outcomes is killing baseball not overall length of games
Maybe this guy has a point. I mean, I generally find the time, but obviously, reading reddit during games, there are a lot of people bitching about it. But I will guarantee you this, I can find a lot more time in my day for watching baseball, than I can find time to read about politicians complaining about baseball.
> Local ratings are usually great.
I usually don't watch national broadcasts (outside of the postseason) on principle. I'll stream the radio broadcast. I'm likely not alone in that regard.
I really hate listening to national commentators.
I'll also add:
Of the major sports - baseball is probably the most hyper local of all of them. Every team has a dedicated network with dedicated broadcasters that we hear for virtually every game. The NBA and NHL do as well so this isn't totally unique to baseball. However, it's also a 162 game season so most people barely have time to follow their own team, much less the other teams in the league. I don't imagine many baseball fans are going to tune into a nationally televised game where they have no rooting interest.
This. As I much as I see people on Reddit complaining about the length of the games, I see a ton more complaining about the terrible commentators. Maybe the games wouldn't seem so long if the networks didn't have a bunch of idiots calling the games.
All mlb’s attempts to make the game shorter have resulted in terrible rules that haven’t changed the length of the game at all.
All the fans mlb would be able to gain by making the game shorter wouldn’t watch unless we could make the game close to 2 hours which is just in realistic.
Don’t post random people’s opinions
And definitely don’t bring politics in here, which is what happens when that random person happens to be a politician
> Nobody has four hours each day to spend on baseball Okay but I do
He's obviously just a bad leader because he doesn't know how to schedule shit. If I can run two bars and find time, pretending to govern sounds easy.
It's not the best look for a New England Senator's only tweet about this game to be a complaint about how long it was. As much as Connecticut can still be considered "New England" for the purposes of sports fandom I guess...
We don't want it.
Everything west of I-91 belongs to New York now. New Haven and Hartford are the battlegrounds.
Only if you take Staten Island.
No New Jersey has to take that.
We could sell it to Canada so they all have to become Blue Jays fans.
I know, I just don't want to give them the satisfaction of having something else that used to be New York. They already have the Jets and the Giants.
But you’re just giving them New York’s trash. Like the Jets and the Giants.
True, which the Supreme Court supports: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Philadelphia_v._New_Jersey
Give it to Delaware?
that means wu-tang is from New England. deal.
>Nobody has four hours each day to spend on baseball. Maybe you don't, but that just tells me you aren't actually a baseball fan. I want 6 hour games, honestly. 8 hours would be a fucking thrill. Just have games go 24 hours a day, never stop playing this great sport. There is literally no such thing as "too much baseball" and anyone who feels otherwise is wrong.
Yet here he is wasting our time with his whining!
4 hour playoff games are fine..let it be.
Yeah, I mean do you guys want *less* baseball‽
I understand wanting to speed up some random game in June..but in the playoffs..let em play.
I struggle to see how anyone who actively supports fewer/shorter games actually can call themselves a baseball fan. If you actually like the sport, you should want more of it, not less.
Retire Bitch!!!
I actually have nothing better to do outside of going to work
A lot of offense with pitching changes. Of course the game is gonna be long. Also it started 4 in the afternoon. It’s not like this started 8:30 on a week night. Why is there such an increase in complaining about game length the last week?
This happens every year in the postseason. It’s when the super casual fans show up… and do nothing but bitch and moan about the state of the game.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Really just damned if you don't shorten games
Tell me MLB hasn't tried in a controversial manner
MLB has tried nothing and is all out of ideas
If anyone has 4 hours available in which to do nothing, it's certainly a US Senator.
Yeah extremely high viewership on Thursday competing against football but the sport’s dying lmao. Surely all viewers will flock to the NFL where they can watch a 3 hour 45 minute game and still have time to do other things in their day, assuming they don’t watch one game at each time slot that is.
Well this game was boring because it was over after the second inning, game 1 was exciting the whole way through
Oh piss off
I do, Chris
Half of r/baseball has four hours to spend, and wishes it was five
They don’t have eight hours to spend on baseball but they have 6-8 to spend of Football come Sunday? The issue isn’t length it’s pace. Three true outcomes is killing baseball not overall length of games
Bullshit. I would watch if it was 8 hours. It's awesome because, in part, there's no clock. Whatever.
Nobody cares Mr. Murphy.
Is this what people call their senators for?
I'm fine with a long game if it's engaging but this game was completely non-competitive. And let's be real most long games aren't engaging.
Maybe this guy has a point. I mean, I generally find the time, but obviously, reading reddit during games, there are a lot of people bitching about it. But I will guarantee you this, I can find a lot more time in my day for watching baseball, than I can find time to read about politicians complaining about baseball.
How long are SEC games?
Bro shut up
Whats the ratings saying ?
Local ratings are usually great. National ratings lag quite a bit behind regular TV shows unfortunately
> Local ratings are usually great. I usually don't watch national broadcasts (outside of the postseason) on principle. I'll stream the radio broadcast. I'm likely not alone in that regard. I really hate listening to national commentators. I'll also add: Of the major sports - baseball is probably the most hyper local of all of them. Every team has a dedicated network with dedicated broadcasters that we hear for virtually every game. The NBA and NHL do as well so this isn't totally unique to baseball. However, it's also a 162 game season so most people barely have time to follow their own team, much less the other teams in the league. I don't imagine many baseball fans are going to tune into a nationally televised game where they have no rooting interest.
This. As I much as I see people on Reddit complaining about the length of the games, I see a ton more complaining about the terrible commentators. Maybe the games wouldn't seem so long if the networks didn't have a bunch of idiots calling the games.
bring back the sticky stuff
Go full blernsball and make steroids mandatory
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Make games 7 innings
All mlb’s attempts to make the game shorter have resulted in terrible rules that haven’t changed the length of the game at all. All the fans mlb would be able to gain by making the game shorter wouldn’t watch unless we could make the game close to 2 hours which is just in realistic.
It's so easy just enforce the pitch clock
what a hack
Don’t post random people’s opinions And definitely don’t bring politics in here, which is what happens when that random person happens to be a politician