two major league baseball games be shortened in
ESPN Insider report with ESPN's Buster Olney he put this out here a few quotes
from his report I one
I believe it's an executive in Major League Baseball chimed in as well so
here we go
the games are often played too slowly he noted the audience
a major league baseball is aging very true with polls indicating that the
youngest generation
expects faster and faster this in what it consumes
at the same time the exact 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
although her collateral ligament strains are the element is your
top prospect James in Taylan up the Pirates
is the latest pitcher to be had for Tommy John surgery maybe we'll bump into
Bobby Parnell along the way
nice stuff so how to shorten games exactly
enforce the 12-second rule
that umpires are supposed to enforce in between pitches pitchers 12 seconds
a few the others up batters calling for time limited as much as possible
I a catcher visiting the mound I mean that could obviously be shortened a
pretty short but
the the frequency the frequency in which they do it thank you
yes certainly like to be limited and managers stalling while relievers are
throwing
warm-ups is another one J do you agree or disagree
game should be shortened maybe 27
innings instead of Nile nine is fine I mean there's a lot that goes on in the
game and
its yes my love those fatigue pastor
end up factoring into every sport you know so
30 it's baseball but yesterday you get tired which is get added me up to
yet to play in different areas yeah if you plan early yet and it also the
number that bats you get all these things
it changes in europe seem different pitches when you do make it seems so
it I think it helps it the a big part of me games is the end of the game
who has endurance who has the right plan who's done it cracked me to do that
short
and eliminates a huge sector the game not too worried about how long things
over with long
season this game is long but the I i still here as much made it sucks I'm in
the wrong circles
I consistently all any AAA team to
games are they just are not to bid team but the EMEA
I calm down you know year you've ever lockout season
NBA and NHL group P but they're extremely tire was back to back night
that's an intense game to play that
frequent so I mean that was tough and that's when trees go up through
but it made the competition that much better because if you go on like a
three-game losing streak
four-game losing streak many better turn that around quickly you're done
that's what made it intends to take my time to do not I get it say they saw the
season but its doorstep the same on time
the media more time in two games with that sucks the to wait for more games to
come on you've shown Black Knights but
what so it's not like that at the movies 162 a key to getting his one thousand
acres
as an odd number 82 lost my number not
by was somewhat is not my numbers they've course there's even a but we
were cancelled 122 were something I mean
white I don't know it did this war things that that some kinda for thought
process too but the fact that
baseball starts when it's warm starting to get warm
ins when it started a cold we stress three of the four seasons
for one season a baseball it's a little long here's the other thing from the
wall street journal then I found incredibly interesting about
an actual baseball game in a3 ever game
how much action do you think actually takes place
I brought the ice a percentage of the three hours
yet what no no I'll if not already done yet
yes he did 17 minutes and 58 seconds
in a three-hour game the almost 18-minute average
included balls in play runner advancement attempts and stolen bases
wild pitches pitches ball strikes thousand balls in play
trotting batters on home runs walks in age BP's
pickoff throws and even one fake pickoff throw this may be general stuff is
included in his 80 minutes
yes like a this may be generous if we cut the action definition down to just
the time when everyone on the field is running around looking for something to
do balls in play and mother Ventana times
we'll be down to 547 of average time between batters
33 minutes and 39 seconds this is they sampled three games
one was actually like a fourteen a nine-game the others were like 322 and
Bible one
average time between batters 33 39
time between innings 42 minutes and 41 seconds
time between pitches one our
14 minutes 49 seconds there's where the problem is.
the tools they can run know the talks like a room and also yet this
a much down time thinking nine times as between innings because there is the
warm up sex session again did is there maybe even a picture comes on he has
you know they to give them all the time in the world and
ally I don't see how have been the season I'm having these games being long
leads to increased with
article first all the time about tell you that connection I agree with that I
circled I was reading at Lia
me and I kinda rushes and maybe it's more injuries
made or you don't stretch properly i mean there are so many variables that go
into that but I i mean like
the evidence is there by the way NFL games in 2010
the most money action was at 10 and 11 minutes
11 minutes 0 I personally thought that it would be
about 30 because you couldn't you could watch
if you have like the NFL pat you pay like X report you watch the game the
next day takes like a half hour
instead of three hours but I agree with
everything that they're set own about shortening the games
to seven innings sure the season yes absolutely that's be unanimous
that more clinton despite like were in this age where
everything is so instead and then you take a game like baseball
that is so slow so and it drags on forever and you're waiting for something
to happen in gaza scratch in the nuts in the outfield in picking their nose
look at their boogers and talking the hot female fans in the stands like
we can limit the time on that and then sleep and they should
but you know it's as one of the game's I mean huh what golf takes forever to
because they got a walk-off you gotta be so as all over this whole
court that's why I usually watch some like the last two days mainly just the
sunday but North complain if I maybe you are complaining about it but these a
casual fans or maybe
no fans that are complaining about got a lot of talk in morning
but then what you know in baseball also there's a lot there's a lot of players
in the field
and like there's so many things that you can't control whereas in baseball you
can control it one of the guy
goes all tin cup in hits 12 shots into the water
what you gonna do I mean it's this something you can't get it just makes
the game is why I'm okay with this lacks with weight is maybe a shortened season
me
but like I mean i sat there last Sunday with my kid at the Dodger game
talk two years old and the boys that the whole thing just like
it took the whole thing it because he knows that he knows already decimated
the game
for what is on us it is basse-bolle the brim with moving
all its is this system if you don't like the game at school
ok