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Baseball & Other Slow Moving Sports

PhDeac said:
In that 5 minutes of gameplay there are 22 people doing someone on every play. There is plenty to dissect and discuss between plays.
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Agreed but I feel the same way about baseball. There's a lot of strategy going on between every pitch. And if you actually understand the game every change in count changes what the batter/pitcher/runners/defense is doing. I agree there are some things that can be done to move the game along but artificial rule changes isn't it. The game flowed very nicely for a century without these problems. The introduction of a bunch of technology and 22-man bullpens that lead 12 pitching changes a game (along with a tiny strike zone and stupid reviews) has led to the current mess. Still the best 3 hours of sports around though.
 
You can only show so many replays of a shift between pitches. Football can replay the same play from multiple angles and focus on what any player is doing and talk strategy.
 
I'm a huge Red sox fan and have watched every inning of every postseason game this year but last night both kids got invited to sleepovers so the wife and I had a rare night to our selves....I gulped when I realized it was game 3 night but for the sake of my marriage I said sure lets go out. We went to dinner, saw a movie, and even hit a halloween party for a couple of hours and got home around 1 AM and I still got to watch 2.5 hours of baseball! Win!
 
SC DEAC said:
I'm a huge Red sox fan and have watched every inning of every postseason game this year but last night both kids got invited to sleepovers so the wife and I had a rare night to our selves....I gulped when I realized it was game 3 night but for the sake of my marriage I said sure lets go out. We went to dinner, saw a movie, and even hit a halloween party for a couple of hours and got home around 1 AM and I still got to watch 2.5 hours of baseball! Win!
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Dude if all you did when you got home with the house to yourselves was watch baseball, shame on you!:thumbsup:
 
Is this the world series thread? Puig been clutch this post season
 
At least FOX figured out how to squeeze even more advertising into a broadcast. My favorite was when they'd do that "quick word" split screen bullshit, then cut back to the full broadcast only to realize the manager was trotting out for a pitching change... which meant they could cut to a full commercial break.

Somehow they finally found something worse than the NFL's XP-commercial-kickoff-commercial combo.
 
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