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The baseball game that never ended.

MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
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Watched the beginning of last nights game. Really enjoyed the Anthem as played by Carlos Santana.

Plenty of action and good old time baseball excitement.

4 hours though. C'mon.

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    MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    It was a very long game, but I do not think that it could have been prevented. There were a lot of pitching changes, and there was a lot of scoring. Personally, I prefer three hours. That is the ideal length of a baseball game for me.
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It was a very long game, but I do not think that it could have been prevented. There were a lot of pitching changes, and there was a lot of scoring. Personally, I prefer three hours. That is the ideal length of a baseball game for me. >>



    I can think of a way that would have shortened it by 18 minutes.
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    BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 8,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The blame can't be laid completly on the players and their habits (in/out of the batters box,glove adjustments etc). The TV networks run the show. They have advertisers to cater to and have a compliment of TV ads that must be squeezed in. They pay the freight.
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    BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Best way to watch a game nowadays is to record it and start watching it an hour in. Skip all the commercials, intentional walks, pitching changes, manager's challenges, etc. You finish when the actual game finishes and you've saved an hour in the process.
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Best way to watch a game nowadays is to record it and start watching it an hour in. Skip all the commercials, intentional walks, pitching changes, manager's challenges, etc. You finish when the actual game finishes and you've saved an hour in the process. >>



    Good idea. Low scoring game five came in at a tolerable 3 hours or so.

    Unless one is a SF or KC fan or a true die hard baseball guy, it is impossible to watch these from start to finish.
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    ashabbyashabby Posts: 471 ✭


    << <i>Best way to watch a game nowadays is to record it and start watching it an hour in. Skip all the commercials, intentional walks, pitching changes, manager's challenges, etc. You finish when the actual game finishes and you've saved an hour in the process. >>



    I do this all the time. No flow to the game with all the commercials. Also can watch someone interesting over if something would happen
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Just researching the 1968 series.

    Game 7 took 2 hours, 7 minutes.

    Yeesh.
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    LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Really enjoyed the Anthem as played by Carlos Santana. >>

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