MLB Exec - Make games 7 innings

[MikelArteta]

Major League Baseball is having trouble attracting young fans and teams are struggling with injuries, says one “high-ranking [MLB] executive.”


While these issues aren’t related, he believes there’s a way to remedy both — shorten the games.

Last year, a Wall Street Journal study found that an average baseball game contains about 18 minutes of action over the course of three hours.

The executive believes games are played too slowly, and the younger generation is turning away from baseball because of it.



all together now

baseball is dyinggggggggg

 

[yseJ]

to be fair a football game contains like 20mins of action. a condensed football film with replays usually clocks in under 30mins...

 

[cook]

to be fair a football game contains like 20mins of action. a condensed football film with replays usually clocks in under 30mins...

atleast with football theres things going on presnap, substitutions, audibles. plus the breaks are between plays so you can show replays. in baseball, for the most part all they can show is the previous pitch unless there was an actual play

 

[mozichrome]

so do you always wait till baseball season to start this "baseball dying crap" because your team not gonna win crap?

 

[TrillaMonsoon]

It's not close to dying. It's just taken them far too long to join the 21st century and start making changes to the game.

It's a regional sport now but these teams aren't losing money like they do in NBA and NHL. The TV deals shows people are watching. On a national level, people don't care but that's not indicative of the sports health and popularity.

They were the last league to allow youtube videos, last league to add replay to their games and now they will tackle the length of the game. They can speed the game up by making players stay in the batters box and not re-adjust everything they are wearing in between each pitch. 3 to 3 1/2 hours is not much longer than you spend at a football game. If it doesn't interest you or you find it boring, that's understandable. But people who love the game enjoy baseball for what it is. Every play can be the game deciding play. I'm sorry you can't start watching a game in the 5th inning and be guaranteed great drama.

 

[Kenny_Powers]

 

[the next guy]

bring in a pitch clock as well.

 

[FaTaL]

9 innings is fine, make the regular season 130 games with expanded playoffs

 

[Kings County]

to be fair a football game contains like 20mins of action. a condensed football film with replays usually clocks in under 30mins...

atleast football hass action watching baseball is like watching paint dry if they miss the ball

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Baseball is awesome when drunk

 

[MahdiqBickadonyors]

If a foul ball counts as a strike the first two times, it should count as a strike the 3rd time. Game would move right along.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

This might sound crazy but the only thing I wish baseball would do is have 6 batters instead of 9.......fukk strategy, nikkas don't want to see the pitcher hit, pinch hitters and all that shyt. I really care to see the top of the order hit and that's it. When it comes to the end of the game I want the bat in the best batter's hands....fukk all that other shyt.

Could you imagine seeing Miggy get the opportunity to bat more? It sounds crazy but baseball is like fukking watching Kobe where they put in a rule that he has to pass the ball.

Take out the rule that says you can't sub cats in and out. Let Miggy just play offense. No one is paying to see him play defense.

I guarantee you if you told nikkas they wouldn't have to wait 8 other at bats in order to hit again then more nikkas would play baseball.

 

[Yogi]

It would help if they would just enforce the strike zone as defined in the rule book. The narrow strike zone causes hitters to take too many pitches and drags the game out.

 

[MikelArteta]

baseball doesn't want change mainly because baseball is really the only league where stats are tied so closely to the game, 3000 hits, 500 home runs. 20 wins, 50 saves bla bla it would literally ruin the "history and ambiance" of the sport



if baseball was only 130 games then it would be harder to hit 50 home rns, get 20 wins, 200 hits bla bla

 

[MikelArteta]

This might sound crazy but the only thing I wish baseball would do is have 6 batters instead of 9.......fukk strategy, nikkas don't want to see the pitcher hit, pinch hitters and all that shyt. I really care to see the top of the order hit and that's it. When it comes to the end of the game I want the bat in the best batter's hands....fukk all that other shyt.

Could you imagine seeing Miggy get the opportunity to bat more? It sounds crazy but baseball is like fukking watching Kobe where they put in a rule that he has to pass the ball.

Take out the rule that says you can't sub cats in and out. Let Miggy just play offense. No one is paying to see him play defense.

I guarantee you if you told nikkas they wouldn't have to wait 8 other at bats in order to hit again then more nikkas would play baseball.

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