Tom Tango went through the Eckersley/Gibson at bat to see if it would have been in compliance with the pitch clock. He finds the worst point was that Gibson took 14 seconds instead of 12 seconds to be "alert" to the pitcher.
I am so on team pitch clock.
Ditto. As someone observed, we didn't lose a half hour of baseball. We lost a half hour of people standing around not playing baseball.
Exactly. This is just getting is back to what we used to have before baseball turned into golf.
Somebody complained that they didn't mind the diddling around, baseball was meant to meander. I then asked him during its height of popularity in 50s and 60's baseball games lasted just about 2 hours or so. What is the difference now?
For fun, I gathered and calculated the mean game length for World Series games in each of 1960 (2:40), 1970 (2:24) and 1980 (2:58).
This sort of implies that it wasn't TV per se, although the networks may have gotten much more aggressive about monetizing the broadcasts by 1980. Maybe the DH rule??
I think because they could. Stalling didn't hurt the staller and sometimes helped. Fast forward through decades of that slowly happening and nothing to push back and you get what we have now.
As always, its the Yankees/Red Sox fault for ruining things.
Today Twins face Dr. Emilio Jesús Luzardo and the red lectroids from the 8th Dimension!
Where's Perfect Tommy when you need him?
Every Twins game is a day game from today through Monday.
As a work from home-guy, I approve.
Yeah, I like following the game on the radio while I work. But Saturday and Sunday I'll be watching the games while I work.
Tom Tango went through the Eckersley/Gibson at bat to see if it would have been in compliance with the pitch clock. He finds the worst point was that Gibson took 14 seconds instead of 12 seconds to be "alert" to the pitcher.
I am so on team pitch clock.
Ditto. As someone observed, we didn't lose a half hour of baseball. We lost a half hour of people standing around not playing baseball.
Exactly. This is just getting is back to what we used to have before baseball turned into golf.
Somebody complained that they didn't mind the diddling around, baseball was meant to meander. I then asked him during its height of popularity in 50s and 60's baseball games lasted just about 2 hours or so. What is the difference now?
Average game length reached two hours in 1935 and two and a half hours in 1959. Going by the graph midway through Lindbergh's article, it dropped to about 2:20 in the '60s and '70s until resuming its rise for another 30 years.
So, what's the driver there? TV?
For fun, I gathered and calculated the mean game length for World Series games in each of 1960 (2:40), 1970 (2:24) and 1980 (2:58).
This sort of implies that it wasn't TV per se, although the networks may have gotten much more aggressive about monetizing the broadcasts by 1980. Maybe the DH rule??
I think because they could. Stalling didn't hurt the staller and sometimes helped. Fast forward through decades of that slowly happening and nothing to push back and you get what we have now.
As always, its the Yankees/Red Sox fault for ruining things.
Today Twins face Dr.
EmilioJesús Luzardo and the red lectroids from the 8th Dimension!Where's Perfect Tommy when you need him?
Every Twins game is a day game from today through Monday.
As a work from home-guy, I approve.
Yeah, I like following the game on the radio while I work. But Saturday and Sunday I'll be watching the games while I work.