MLB Exec - Make games 7 innings

[The War Report]

No there ain't. The World Series host coming from the ASG wasn't stemmed from finances. It was stemmed from the tie.

Nah, I'm talking about just The World Series being the only post season series being played.

 

[the next guy]

Because aside from Mets fans, nobody looks forward to the Subway Series. The Yankees can't stand playing the Mets because they're in a no win situation.

Absolutely true, but it still makes a lot money and should be marketed way more. The Yankees love the mets when the had to play at Shea way back when

I honestly would love to go back to the who ever has the best regular season record gets to go The World Series format but there's too much money being left out for that to happen.

I would agree, but it would give the whiners the chance to say baseball is even more unfair. Americans love that fake parity from the one off NFL playoff games.

 

[Tommy Fits]

Because aside from Mets fans, nobody looks forward to the Subway Series. The Yankees can't stand playing the Mets because they're in a no win situation.

Please stop speaking for Mets fans, most Mets fans I know I hate the subway series, myself included.

 

[unit321]

I don't think cutting down the number of innings helps. It ruins the game. Would you cut down a basketball game to three 15 minutes periods?
I think a pitch clock will pick up the pace. It would result in more mistakes because pitchers are getting hurried and allow for more hits and stolen bases. Batters can't step out of the box after each pitch for readjustment or whatever for an extended period of time, so there would be a batter clock too. It's like there's a huge time-out for every pitch.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Please stop speaking for Mets fans, most Mets fans I know I hate the subway series, myself included.

Yeah y'all hated it so much when y'all swept us and came back on Mo and curb stomped us in the Bronx.

Mets Yearbook 2013 will be about Harvey and that 4 game series

 

[MikelArteta]

I don't think baseball is dying because that would imply at some point the sport itself will die and have no support which will never happen
but it has taken a fukking Monster L to the NFL and the things that people love about the NFL are the things baseball lacks so the problems are magnified

1. 162 games is too goddam long- somehow when i was a teenager I didnt mind it but now that i am older with a job and shyt to do..i cant watch all those games and be into every single game with the same energy

2.The sport has become way too regional, the perception is only a hand full of teams really have a shot at the world series ( Yank, Red Sox, Cards, Dodgers, SF and always one random small market club that comes outta grandmas anus to make a splash)

3 The cost to go see a game ,in decent to great seats, is astronomical. Yes you can take a family of 4 to Yankees stadium for 80 bucks but you will have shytty seats, and still have to pay your left nut for parking and 8-10 bucks for a grinded up insides wrapped in a casing called a hotdog. Now seeing an NFL game is silly expensive BUT you only have to pick from 8 home games as opposed to 81

4 Baseball doesnt translate well on television as it once did ( this loops back to ticket prices) the only people you see behind home plate or on the 3rd and 1st baseline are generally the rich stiffs who barely care and dont rev up the stadium because...well they are old and barely give a fukk...the lack of energy doesnt help the TV product. With the NFL you dont really see the crowd unless they scan the audience on 3rd down or something

5 Warning..race related..lets keep it real...we need more bruhs in baseball...i need to see athleticism...double steals...steal home base....crazy catches and when he does all those amazing plays..when you interview him after...i would like to understand what he is saying

it wont be dead but it will be a fringe sport ala mls,

i agree 162 games is to long, but baseball will never change that, tv contracts etc, teh reason baseball gets these astronimical tv contracts is that a tv station can fill 162 days of the year with live content

3. i disagree with you on cost, going to a baseball game is cheaper than any other sport. you can get great seats at most stadiums for like 25-30 bucks


4. i agree, and for the most part they never switch up the camera angles, same baseball game 20 years ago looks he smae now, how about putting cameras on every baseball out there and let us see waht it looks like from teh 3b basemen eye when he snags a hot grounder his way but no

 

[Tommy Fits]

Yeah y'all hated it so much when y'all swept us and came back on Mo and curb stomped us in the Bronx.

Mets Yearbook 2013 will be about Harvey and that 4 game series

And you guys don't love it the other 9 out of 10 times you guys curb stomp us and further remind us and the rest of Baseball what a joke the Mets are ? Of course I'm going to be happy the Mets swept the Yanks, how is that any different from when you guys used to come into our thread after smacking us around even though our team was already a pathetic joke. The only reason you guys don't do it now is because the Mets are NY Islander level irrelevant now. Yea I enjoyed the sweep but I much rather not play the games at all because I fully expect to get embarrassed. But some how the Mets pull four straight out of there asses and I'm not supposed to enjoy that, gtfoh with that hypocritical yankee fan logic.

 

[Oville]

I don't think baseball is dying because that would imply at some point the sport itself will die and have no support which will never happen
but it has taken a fukking Monster L to the NFL and the things that people love about the NFL are the things baseball lacks so the problems are magnified

1. 162 games is too goddam long- somehow when i was a teenager I didnt mind it but now that i am older with a job and shyt to do..i cant watch all those games and be into every single game with the same energy

The thing about baseball is that you don't have to watch every single game with the same energy. Its always there for you when you need it. Its a chill sport thats always there for you after a long day of work or school. Baseball and Football serve two different entertainment purposes. Football has the event atmosphere and baseball like a companion sport that you can always rely upon to be there. I don't hate on the 162 game season all that much because less teams make the playoffs and if you look at the regular season through stretches all the slumps that you go through add up.

2.The sport has become way too regional, the perception is only a hand full of teams really have a shot at the world series ( Yank, Red Sox, Cards, Dodgers, SF and always one random small market club that comes outta grandmas anus to make a splash)

The game has become more regionalized but this perception of only a handful of teams can win is false. Baseball has had almost as much if not more parody than the NFL over the last ten years.

3 The cost to go see a game ,in decent to great seats, is astronomical. Yes you can take a family of 4 to Yankees stadium for 80 bucks but you will have shytty seats, and still have to pay your left nut for parking and 8-10 bucks for a grinded up insides wrapped in a casing called a hotdog. Now seeing an NFL game is silly expensive BUT you only have to pick from 8 home games as opposed to 81

Seat prices are astronomical but ticket sales haven't been MLB's problem (except tampa, miami, and oakland). The last ten years have been the highest attendance years in baseball's history.

4 Baseball doesnt translate well on television as it once did ( this loops back to ticket prices) the only people you see behind home plate or on the 3rd and 1st baseline are generally the rich stiffs who barely care and dont rev up the stadium because...well they are old and barely give a fukk...the lack of energy doesnt help the TV product. With the NFL you dont really see the crowd unless they scan the audience on 3rd down or something

I think what they should do in this instance is have the commissioner talk with the players and managers around the league about stop loosening up the uptight culture in baseball. After the strike in order to bring back goodwill to the fans the players were encouraged to toss the last out of the inning into the crowd. I think outfielders should be encouraged to wave their hands and ask the crowd to stand up when a pitcher has two strikes on a hitter or if a guys on base they should encourage him to do the same and get the crowd amped up for the next batter to get a hit. People like seeing passion and testosterone

5 Warning..race related..lets keep it real...we need more bruhs in baseball...i need to see athleticism...double steals...steal home base....crazy catches and when he does all those amazing plays..when you interview him after...i would like to understand what he is saying

Luckily I think the sport is kinda leading that way. Most of the young players that have come up like Trout, Harper, Machado, McCutchen, Adam Jones, Giancarlo Stanton, Yasiel Puig, Billy Hamilton are all great athletes. I think in order to attract more of a black audience I think encouraging players to engage the fans the way I pointed out in number 4 would attract more African American fans to the game. Cultually, African American young fans don't have a problem with outward displays of passion and emotion that older white fans do.

 

[Danie84]

As a casual baseball fan, the 7th innings proposal is a terrible idea. I don't understand how a pitcher

can be warming up during innings, then when they're call to the mound, they still get more warm-up pitches on the field

 

[JMD]

making the game 7 innings wont help, baseball as a a whole is just too slow for folks nowadays...they need to enforce some of these rules like 15 seconds in between pitches and not have the batter step out of the box

 

[THE MACHINE]

i remember i always wanted to see bonds hit, when espn would cut their program to show him at bat and ish, after he hit youd have to wait like another half hour just to see him bat again

Then after all that wait, they would intentionally walk him [DOUBLEPOST=1397318828][/DOUBLEPOST]MORE CAMERA ANGLES. They should go back to catcher cam sometimes. A camera on top of the dugouts would really capture the velocity of the pitches as well since you would be watching it from the manager's view.

Also 124 games would be nice. And can we get rid of the white or gray pants only. Can you imagine an all black white sox uni .