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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
I do like the idea of dumping, say, half the TV breaks as we move into an era that isn't all about television anymore. I do think that baseball will be very, very slow to adopt this, as the US model is you show the game, then you have a 90 second break, then you show the game again. I agree that that's increasingly a less and less viable model (and frankly even in its heyday everyone at home used those 90 seconds as bathroom / food replenishment / looking up stats in the encyclopedia breaks) but, well, nobody ever accused baseball of not hanging onto traditions for traditions' sake...
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I said this during the opening of this thread
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Originally Posted by 24Rocks
I really understand the desire to get the game shorter but they really should take 1 30sec commercial off each break that would make the game go faster.
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Syd is very right, baseball is changing and us as fans need to understand that the strategy is changing, but MLB needs to create rules not to ruin the strategy's but keep them in check like the mound visit rule.
Forcing 3 batters to a pitcher seems like a bad rule that is not guaranteed to speed up the game.