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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich
I have lots of sports I like. I work in sports. I used to be a massive baseball fan when I was younger.
Now I find them boring but the biggest issue is the length of the game.
The average game is 3 hours and 3 minutes.
And the average team once the season gets rolling plays 6 times a week.
So your looking at an 18 hour per week time investment to follow just one team.
With the way my life is now, I simply cannot make that investment anymore.
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So at 2.5 hours per game, 15 hours per 6 games would be ok for you? I'm not saying 18 hours is acceptable, only that in context 15 hours isn't much different. Is it?
Point being games when I was growing up were not 3 hours, but more in the range of 2.5ish. Most of us traditionalists, that seem to get a lot of criticism, did not get to see their teams play one game a week**, let alone 6 when growing up. One followed the league listening on the radio, or in the morning newspaper looking at standings and box scores, or my favorite was when the Sporting News came in the mail on Saturday and you would review the whole week through box scores, in one sitting. Then you hoped your team would be on the Saturday Game of the Week.
** Maybe that was different if you grew up in a big city and they had local broadcasts? IDK. I do know growing up in "small town America" meant baseball games on tv were few and far between for any team, let alone your favorite. That didn't change until the superstations of the very late 70's. I don't think we had WGN, TBS, or whatever the channel was that showed the Mets until 1979.
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Originally Posted by monkeyman576
I usually watch baseball while I'm multitasking and doing other things to be honest.
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Yes, this is how I listened to games on the radio growing up. I wasn't glued to the radio then, I'm not glued to the tv now. Somebody above made a good point about replays in football that holds one's attention. That is true, but back in the late 60's and early 70's those replays weren't there nearly as much. Result was even football games allowed one to be doing two things, or more, at once.
The game has a lot of issues that it has mostly brought upon itself. Time wasting should have been nipped in the bud years ago. Instead they "let it go" until almost everybody did it and it became the norm. They continue to make it hard to watch on tv. Not nearly as much with the price as with the stupid blackout rules they have in place. Find a way to share the revenue and get rid of blackouts. It's silly that you pay for MLB tv, can't watch your team until 90 minutes(?) after the game ends, yet still see all of the commercials. Everybody on the MLB side is getting theirs. The one that is missing out is the fan that is paying the bills.
I love the game but don't pay nearly as much attention to it as I once did. Whenever there's been a work stoppage OOTP has scratched my itch and I can honestly say I didn't feel like I was missing much. Don't get me wrong, I was happy when things were settled and MLB returned, but I was also fine when it wasn't there.
