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What about the 30+ seconds between every single football play? What about the stoppages every time a foul is called or there's an out of bounds play? What about stoppages in college football every time there's a TV timeout or a review? Do you think that accounts for more or less time than mound visits do in basbeall, or really any stoppages in baseball? Baseball games, on average, last nearly an hour less time than a college football game does. They last about the same as an NFL football game and a little longer than an average basketball game.

This is the crux of it. Baseball is too slow and boring for some people. Fine if that's the way you feel. But somehow, the untimed game of baseball manages to produce an event that takes approximately 3hrs on average to finish. Football at the college and NFL level are limited to 60 minutes (in regulation, obviously). Somehow, it takes them 3hrs on average to finish.

Football takes 3 times longer than it's "time limit" to finish. Basketball takes about twice as long as it's time limit. But baseball is the sport with a pace of play issue.

This post was edited on 2/22/17 at 4:15 pm

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Posted by lsufball19

Franklin, TN

Member since Sep 2008

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Posted on 2/22/17 at 4:26 pm to Wayne Campbell

Look, I get what baseball is trying to do. They see that it is losing popularity. But, in my opinion, there is nothing baseball can do to change the fact that this generation does not have the patience or attention level to enjoy baseball. Without completely changing the entire sport to something else, no rule change that has been proposed is going to change that. All these rule changes will do is adversely affect the game. They are not going to somehow draw more people into watching baseball because they don't have as many mound visits, have a pitch clock, get rid of the intentional walk, etc.

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