Reply to "Is MLB regular season too long?"

Nuke835,000+ posts

Honestly, I'd rather see them shorten games to 7 innings.

That's 324 innings over a 162 game season, so the equivalent of 36 games.

This would shorten EVERY game played in time, which is a problem facing MLB, wouldn't require any adjustment to ticket prices, revenue to teams, TV revenue, etc. Yes, there would be fewer commercial opportunities during games, but frankly, with the number of play reviews, mound visits, pitching changes, in-game commercials, much like what was used during the world series, can easily offset that.

I'd much rather see games closer to 2.5 hours on a nightly basis, than the same things fewer times.

A much more radical approach, but with the same benefit with more of a win-win result IMHO.

11/3/1711:19 AM

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