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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
Red Sox-Yankees: 3:13
Dodgers-Cardinals: 4:15
MLB is not doing itself any favours if they are trying to draw in new fans by watching the playoffs. Really need to get the game length down to more reasonable times.
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I don't think fans have much of a problem with the times for the playoffs if there's enough drama associated. I'd say there was so far, and these times don't negatively impact much. Regular season though, yes.
I'm in the boat that is disappointed that next year they won't be going back to the runner on base for extra innings. It was important over the 162 game schedule. What I didn't like about it was I noticed some of the lesser teams in the last innings were just holding on for the tie if they were home, to just bunt their way to the win. It seemed there was a home advantage with the runner in scoring position if the score was even where the home team knew they could just bunt the runner to third, and have a good chance of scoring that runner over two batters. That got gimmicky. Going forward if they started the runner at first that would be good. But they're going back to what they did before and the games will be longer. Totally unnecessary for regular season. Of late I also don't find pitchers and batters taking their time too much, so things move along fast. It's still a cerebral game using game theory between batters and pitchers, so speeding it up too much doesn't make sense. I imagine the average game is still 2 3/4 hours, which isn't bad at all.