POG

[dumbdumb]

Well, i was kinda hoping the CWS POG would be about 2:50-2:55 which would beat the MLB average last year of 3:11.

so, through 13 games, the CWS pace is the good ole 3:11.

if you take out the low game which was a great 2:06 last night for a full 9 innings, you get 3:19. not good.

but if you take out that low game 2:06 last night and the highest game 4:02 for 8 1/2 innings you are back to 3:12.

just thought they may be at least breaking 3:00, but it is not over yet.

[boyinr]

If a routine baseball game took 3 hours the sport would have only been played on weekends for the first 35 years or so.  

[The Man in Blue]

2 hours of game play and 1:15 worth of commercials?  

[Catch18]

2 hours of game play and 1:15 worth of commercials?  

Modern sports. TV pays a lot of bills.

We will certainly never hear talk of shortening commercials. Blasphemy!!!

[dumbdumb]

10 hours ago, Catch18 said:

Modern sports. TV pays a lot of bills.

We will certainly never hear talk of shortening commercials. Blasphemy!!!

yep. mlb game of the week 2:25 between innings. you might as well say 2:30. so 5 minutes for each innning equals 45 minutes per full 9 innings or 42.30 for each 81/2. bet that was only 1 minute years ago which would shave off 1/2 to 22 minutes per game. local games get 2:05 and playoffs get 2:55 or you might as well say 3. or 54 minutes per full 9 inning  playoff game.

funny that in a recent MLB games on Friday an 3-1 yankee loss with only 10 hits in the game  and a 1-0 philly loss with only 12 hits in the game both took 3:05 for each game although philly game was only 8 1/2 innings.

and the no-hitter game yesterday with only 8 hits total took 3:14.

CWS took 3:28 yesterday but you could at least say there were 13 runs scored and 21 hits for a full 9 inning game.

and back in 2013 (dont know about now) baseball only had 18 minutes of action time or 10% of time action, 90% of time standing around.

[LMSANS]

And a one hour drama series has only 40 minutes of actual show. What's the difference?

[zoops]

On 6/27/2022 at 12:19 PM, LMSANS said:

And a one hour drama series has only 40 minutes of actual show. What's the difference?

About 2 hours 😛

[beerguy55]

On 6/27/2022 at 11:19 AM, LMSANS said:

And a one hour drama series has only 40 minutes of actual show. What's the difference?

I can record the show (or delayed start) and skip the commercials.   In a ball game I can skip the commercials, but it's hard to skip the non-action 'cause you're not quite sure when the actual action will occur...you could skip 30 seconds, miss 20 seconds of nothing but also miss an actual play - if they panned to the bench and showed the manager scratching his balls that would at least be something.

[jms1425]

Why baseball games are so damned long | 2017 MLB Season Preview & Predictions (sbnation.com)

[MadMax]

A better analysis would focus on the number of at-bats per inning, and then the amount of time per at-bat. 

These counts are going waaaaaay too long / deep / full (whatever descriptor you choose). 

Oh sure, college baseball saddles us with the 20-second clock, and all the complexities of its enforcement, but pitchers rarely take an exorbitant amount of time pre-pitch. Instead, it's the summary amount of pitches thrown, per at-bat, that lengthens these games. 

All these hitters are coached to take the count to 3-2. And there's a higher degree of "survival" with college's metal bats versus professional baseball's wood bats, ie. professional pitchers can throw pitches on the inside that would typically break a wood bat, or induce weak contact (grounders, pop-ups, etc.), but the metal bats of college baseball can survive that, whether by foul balls (lengthening the at-bat) or by weak contact base hits (lengthening the inning). 

My fervent belief is that college baseball should eschew metal bats, and transition to wood composite bats, which behave more like wood bats, but are much less prone to breaking.

[dumbdumb]

18 hours ago, MadMax said:

A better analysis would focus on the number of at-bats per inning, and then the amount of time per at-bat. 

These counts are going waaaaaay too long / deep / full (whatever descriptor you choose). 

Oh sure, college baseball saddles us with the 20-second clock, and all the complexities of its enforcement, but pitchers rarely take an exorbitant amount of time pre-pitch. Instead, it's the summary amount of pitches thrown, per at-bat, that lengthens these games. 

All these hitters are coached to take the count to 3-2. And there's a higher degree of "survival" with college's metal bats versus professional baseball's wood bats, ie. professional pitchers can throw pitches on the inside that would typically break a wood bat, or induce weak contact (grounders, pop-ups, etc.), but the metal bats of college baseball can survive that, whether by foul balls (lengthening the at-bat) or by weak contact base hits (lengthening the inning). 

My fervent belief is that college baseball should eschew metal bats, and transition to wood composite bats, which behave more like wood bats, but are much less prone to breaking.

i love that last line. however, being taught to take the count to 3-2 (walk is as good as a hit), versus come up hacking, you can't walk to the big leagues etc etc (dinosaur age), and replacing with analytics and going deep in the count mindset (throw in some extra pitches for the foul offs here),  and of course there are studies medically that say the longer you give the arm a rest in between pitches, the more it helps out the arms game workload. these are things that will not help POG.

hey, we will get to see what happens with robots in 2024, which is when the commissioner wants that to happen. all of this within our lifetimes.