[greymule]

I stopped doing baseball several years ago because of the length and pace of the games. It was partially boredom, but it was also that the long games were preventing me from doing rec FP that started at six. (The money back then: $72 [check later, maybe] for one baseball game, $76 [cash on the spot] for two softball games.)

Thirty-five years ago, I would work one o'clock Saturday and Sunday doubleheaders in a semipro league, and we were usually done before six. Yet a couple of summers ago, as a mere spectator I left halfway through a seven-inning American Legion game that ended up taking almost five hours to complete. (No rain delays, no injuries, just snail's pace play.)

I can see how, with all the commercials and relief pitchers, MLB games now take so long, but I can't really explain why high school baseball games creep along so slowly.