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W.S. Game 6...Absolutely Brutal.

ymareaymarea Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭
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The painfully slow pace, gazillion pitching changes, and endless T.V. commercials made that game unwatchable (figuratively speaking). I lost interest around the 5th or 6th inning. Even then it felt like the game had gone 12! Simply brutal.
Brett

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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,128 ✭✭✭
    I thought the same thing Brett. The Matsui HR off Pedro at-bat took about 10 minutes. Tough to maintain gripping drama when one pitch is thrown every minute and a half. It was just ridiculous.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The painfully slow pace, gazillion pitching changes, and endless T.V. commercials made that game unwatchable (figuratively speaking). I lost interest around the 5th or 6th inning. Even then it felt like the game had gone 12! Simply brutal. >>



    You must have been hitting the crack pipe. Thats not Pedro Martinez or Hideki Matsui's fault. The game started after 8 PM and ended before 12 AM. So, a less than four hour post season game has you whining that it felt like 12 ??

    You don't watch much post season baseball ...... period.

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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,128 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You don't watch much post season baseball ...... period. >>



    As a Red Sox fan, I've had to put up with 5-5:30 Sox/Yanks games for years now. It's ridiculous. Look, my dad's grave says 'Never Saw The Red Sox Win The World Series' (seriously), so I will always put up with it and find it difficult to lose interest. But these games could easily be played in 3:15 on average. I saw Posada go out to the mound six times during the same inning the other night. And that Martinez/Matsui confrontation in the 2nd inning was almost unbearable. Frankly, I was sure he was homering before the at bat started. Maybe that's why it felt so long, because it was so inevitable.

    As I get older and have more stuff to do, I'm really gravitating to basketball and European soccer because I know I can watch them intently but know they'll be over in two and a half hours. If it's Friday night and the Sox are playing the Yankees, I have to stay home all night because the game is four and a half hours long - that's killing baseball. Yes, I'll commit the time, but eventually people won't.
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  • ymareaymarea Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>The painfully slow pace, gazillion pitching changes, and endless T.V. commercials made that game unwatchable (figuratively speaking). I lost interest around the 5th or 6th inning. Even then it felt like the game had gone 12! Simply brutal. >>



    You must have been hitting the crack pipe. Thats not Pedro Martinez or Hideki Matsui's fault. The game started after 8 PM and ended before 12 AM. So, a less than four hour post season game has you whining that it felt like 12 ??

    You don't watch much post season baseball ...... period. >>



    I thought I might touch a nerve by expressing my opinion, especially the nerve of a Yankee fan or two. I was rooting for the Yankees, but I know boring television when I see it. Besides the previously mentioned flaws, the game was also marred by a home plate umpire who seemingly has no knowledge of the strike zone, and the fact that the game was not even competitive.

    You may disagree and think that it was a well-played, well-paced, entertaining game. However, making your point by asserting that I abuse drugs, characterizing my expression of my opinion as "whining," and making references to two players whom I never mentioned are hardly effective or persuasive methods.

    Perhaps I don't watch much postseason baseball. I limit my viewing of such to the end of every regular season.
    Brett
  • DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭


    << <i> I lost interest around the 5th or 6th inning. Even then it felt like the game had gone 12! Simply brutal. >>



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  • murcerfanmurcerfan Posts: 2,329 ✭✭
    I thought whinning and drug abuse were prerequiste here...or at leat ADD

    oh wait...maybe that's for the BostonDirtLickers club.
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭
    Unfortunately it's all about dollars. They can sell a lot more commercials in 4 hours than they can in 3...no motivation on the part of MLB or Fox to speed up games at all. Even the live crowd buys more hot dogs & beer if they're there an hour or so longer than need be. It ain't gonna change no matter how much we might want.
  • markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭
    I love TIVO. I have not seen a commercial in years.
  • drewsefdrewsef Posts: 1,894 ✭✭
    One of the main reasons baseball is not America's sport anymore.
  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    The commercials are just as bad in football these days too, if not worse. Kickoff, commercial, three plays and a punt, commercial, two plays and an injury, commercial, one more play and a punt, commercial, etc.

    Like most good things, the love of money is ruining our sports.
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