Thread: Fixing MLB
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Old Tue Oct 26, 2010, 10:12pm
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Measured an NFL game lately, or NHL? A 3+ hour event is very likely.
Yeah, with a 20 minute half time, at least 6, and as many as 18, timeouts -- not including TV, change of possession, scoring, etc. Take away the planned dead time and the actual on field dead time for an NFL game is less than 30 minutes. You reach that in the 3rd inning of MLB.

Face it: even for my generation (~X) baseball is BORING. The game was perfect for my Dad's generation -- one who grew up either without TV or got it in their mid- to late- childhood. Nothing else to do on a Saturday afternoon for decades. Last 25-30 years pretty well changed all that.
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