MLB: 18 Minutes of Action in 3hour Game

Discussion in 'Sports' started by Tenacious D, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    Ridiculous. I get that people enjoy baseball, but I can't fathom how you suffer it.




    Link: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/theres-about-18-minutes-of-action-in-your-average-mlb-game/
     
  2. hallowed_hill

    hallowed_hill Active Member

    So quite a bit more action-packed than football?
     
  3. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    The action against the monotony is what makes baseball great.
     
  4. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    Is it?

    "Actual running around...5 minutes and 47 seconds?"
     
  5. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    I'd be interested to see a study comparing the actual in-game action in football.

    And some other questions:

    1. Does each batter get walk up music?
    2. Do they ever enforce the 12 second pitch count? Is it normally enforced?
     
  6. fl0at_

    fl0at_ Humorless, asinine, joyless pr*ck

    The enjoyment comes from know if you were doing the pitching, the game would end in the first inning, due to fatigue of batters cranking them out over the fence.

    The enjoyment comes from knowing that, and then watching the best in the world hit it at about 1/3 of the time.
     
  7. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    And 1/3 of the time is an automatic ticket to the Hall of Fame.

    Now imagine trying to hit that pitching yourself. I think actually making contact would be a win.
     
  8. utvol0427

    utvol0427 Chieftain

  9. justingroves

    justingroves supermod

    Football may have 15 minutes
     
  10. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    I bet it isn't even that much. But with some up tempo offenses running when play clock reads twenty maybe.

    Factoring in time outs, injuries, commercials, replays, etc the action:time taken is poor for football and baseball. Soccer is probably the best (if you like that kind of action ) and basketball/hockey next because of time outs and period changes.
     
  11. fl0at_

    fl0at_ Humorless, asinine, joyless pr*ck

    I bet it's 11 minutes, which I base only on that WSJ article 427 posted, not 3 posts up.
     
  12. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    That's surprising - and equally ridiculous.
     

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