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http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/mlb-length-of-games-shortened-pitch-clock-seven-innings/

 

In a subscriber-only post to ESPN.com, Buster Olney quotes a team executive who thinks Major League Baseball should shorten its games to seven innings:

The games are often played too slowly, he noted. The audience of Major League Baseball is aging, with polls indicating that the youngest generation expects faster and fastest in what it consumes.

At the same time, the exec said, teams are struggling to find enough good pitching — and, at the same time, the number of injuries is skyrocketing. If oblique strains were the prevalent injury two years ago, ulnar collateral ligament strains are the ailment du jour. Top prospect Jameson Taillon of the Pirates is the latest pitcher to be headed for Tommy John surgery; maybe he’ll bump into Bobby Parnell along the way.

It seems so unlikely to happen that it’s hardly even worth arguing against. As Olney points out, numbers are sacred in the game, and switching to a seven-inning format would mean forever altering the way those numbers accumulate.

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Yeah and what if there were obstacles in the field?! And if the ball was on FIRE! YEAH!

 

Then make it full contact!  And they could wear spikes and be allowed to run the bases with their bat! AWESOME

 

Then like, between innings, release WILD ANIMALS and have Van Halen playing REALLY LOUD! WOOOOOOOO

 

 

 

OR we could stop dumbing down every-fucking-thing for people who don't have the patience to handle anything longer than 30-45 seconds & let them go watch pro wrestling, since they aren't going to stay baseball fans for more than a week anyhow before they get really into dragonboat racing or competitive pineapple stacking or whatever bright, shiny thing captures their attention next.

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Yeah and what if there were obstacles in the field?! And if the ball was on FIRE! YEAH!

 

Then make it full contact!  And they could wear spikes and be allowed to run the bases with their bat! AWESOME

 

Then like, between innings, release WILD ANIMALS and have Van Halen playing REALLY LOUD! WOOOOOOOO

 

 

 

OR we could stop dumbing down every-fucking-thing for people who don't have the patience to handle anything longer than 30-45 seconds & let them go watch pro wrestling, since they aren't going to stay baseball fans for more than a week anyhow before they get really into dragonboat racing or competitive pineapple stacking or whatever bright, shiny thing captures their attention next.

 

:lmao:

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I find the "Woo" amusing & entertaining.

 

 

:17:

I just KNEW you were a Pittsburgh fan!

 

:lol:

 

Seriously though, the "woo" has got to go like yesterday. It's the vuvuzela of baseball. Which means it's annoying as shit to most, replicated by drunk morons and has absolutely no effect on players.

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