Tonight (and for a while) NFL > MLB

[poindexter]

The frigging Sunday Night Football pregame show, with Tiroco and the skeleton of Tony Dungy, almost doubled the WS rating sunday night

 

[Deskgrunt50]

College football is a slog to watch. Change to the NFL rule and don’t stop the clock on every first down.

 

[BTExpress]

What's the "run time" of today's baseball games, minus commercials, vs. years past? I kind of assume it's not that far off. (I think that was a point Gee made much earlier in this thread.)

I don't know. There are times when TV will show a dozen or more camera shots BETWEEN pitches (fans, manager, fans, pitcher, batter, fans, manager, etc.) during really tense moments.

That 1960 World Series Game 7 is the gold standard for "run time." 19 runs, 24 hits, nine pitchers used . . . 2 hours and 36 minutes total.

 

[MileHigh]

College football is a slog to watch. Change to the NFL rule and don’t stop the clock on every first down.

College already has special timing rules in the last two minutes. Same with the NFL. Stopping the clock for the chains with 11:30 left in the first quarter is a joke.

College games should stop the clock on first downs for the chains only in the last two minutes of each half.

NFL and college should also do this: If players go out of bounds, the clock keeps running except in the last two minutes of the first half and last five of the second.

Hell, stop it on incomplete passes and restart it once the ball is reset like is done now when players go out of bounds other than the last two minutes of the halves.

 

[DanOregon]

I've wondered why teams don't order some of their pitchers (who don't have the success to resist advice) to just hurry up their pace. Couldn't hurt and make put the batters off balance.

 

[Batman]

I've wondered why teams don't order some of their pitchers (who don't have the success to resist advice) to just hurry up their pace. Couldn't hurt and make put the batters off balance.

I'm wondering when they'll finally add a pitch clock at the major league level. They've had it in the minors for a few years, so before long there ought to be a generation of pitchers who have been trained to work faster even if they're not on a clock.

 

[MileHigh]

As long as it's implemented.

 

[Batman]

Boobs, horrifically bad calls, presidents getting booed ... this World Series is boring?

 

[DanOregon]

Curious why they don't have a retired ump as part of the post-season coverage.

 

[bigpern23]

I'm wondering when they'll finally add a pitch clock at the major league level. They've had it in the minors for a few years, so before long there ought to be a generation of pitchers who have been trained to work faster even if they're not on a clock.

Baseball should forever remain a game without clocks. Batters should not be allowed to leave the box once they step in and pitchers should be able to pitch as soon as they're ready. Simple as that. Batters start getting quick pitched and they'll adjust accordingly by not adjusting themselves so much. Batter steps outside the box, automatic strike against.

Watching Aaron Judge at bat is a ******* pleasure, and not just because of his power. After a pitch, he sets up and gets ready for the next. No adjusting. No walking around. Just throw the damn ball and let me murder it.

 

[bigpern23]

Another thing is runners should have to continue wearing whatever gear they had on at the plate. This "calling timeout to walk from second base back to first to hand off the gloves, elbow pads, shin guards and then put on the sliding glove" crap has got to stop.

 

[maumann]

Another thing is runners should have to continue wearing whatever gear they had on at the plate. This "calling timeout to walk from second base back to first to hand off the gloves, elbow pads, shin guards and then put on the sliding glove" crap has got to stop.

You get my vote for the next baseball commissioner.

Wouldn't be awesome to do a Hawkeye Pierce -- just show up right in the middle of the next MLB Labor bargaining -- and demand "YOU'VE GOT TO STOP IT! THE SPORT IS DYING!"

I'd risk another criminal conviction for it.

 

[CD Boogie]

Boobs, horrifically bad calls, presidents getting booed ... this World Series is boring?

not when you go full consonance

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Hell, stop it on incomplete passes and restart it once the ball is reset like is done now when players go out of bounds other than the last two minutes of the halves.

Hard no. Eliminates the spike.