used to enjoy the contest of pacing between batter and pitcher. baseball is a lot less relaxing now with that fucking clock ticking down in the corner of the screen. if you must have a clock at least stop fucking showing it on the overlay graphics MLB
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Honestly one of the things they could have done to speed the game up was cut ad time. Obviously something that would never happen.
I hate ads as much as the next communist. But, aside from the post-season, broadcasts have never increased the time between innings in the way you're implying. The relatively brief down time of inning breaks has pretty much always existed. The players have to switch from fielding to batting and vice-versa, the pitcher has to throw a few warm-up pitches, and the catcher has to put their pads back on. It' a natural part of the game that has existed since the 19th century. One day the human race will live free from the scourge of capitalist advertising and enjoy baseball the way Fidel intended :fidel-bat:
they literally did this in 2019, the time is like 2 minutes or something and you can't cut it much lower because guys need to get in position and the pitcher needs to toss some warmups
I do wish we could kill the ads and just see an ambient camera view of the field between innings, but that's what we can fight for in the revolution
I completely forgot about the change in 2019.
More than likely in our lifetime, baseball will end up being a pay-per-view service where you buy viewing rights (like boxing), but there will still be ads.
I could see that for the NFL because there are comparatively so few games per (regular) season (17 games per team with 32 teams), but an MLB regular season has 162 games each for 30 teams (and the All-Star game too haha). Unless an individual game costs less than $2 in 2023 money, no way are most consumers even thinking about paying for that imo