2013 MLB postseason running thread

Four hours for a nine-inning game is not a great thing.

I went to a Dodgers game earlier this season and they played nine in 2:25, that's all it should take.

 

Cool. But not all games are going to be like that. And what the heck else do most of the viewers have to do? Why hurry a great thing?

 

Baseball is wonderful to watch. Watching baseball players not play baseball, which is what 100 percent of the extra time in these games consists of, is not wonderful. The difference in art between slowly building tension and pure tedium is a small one.

 

THERE IS NO CLOCK IN BASEBALL!!!!!!

This sounds like a reasonable solution to me, tradition be damned. But you'd have to supplement it by enforcing a rule against the batter stepping out -- maybe each batter gets a maximum of one per game and the team itself gets a set maximum (four or five).

I heard something on the radio last week that Farrell, during spring training, took a stopwatch to his pitchers to get their asses moving. Even he knows it's a problem.

 

One of the biggest issues I have with baseball is all the pitching changes late in games. Guys come in for one batter.

I get the strategy and all that but it really slows the game down.

 

Horrible call by Dane DeMuth at second base just now. Glad to see the umpires corrected it.

 

Agreed. Napoli then clears bases. Pretty clear Wainwright doesn't have it tonight. Not accustomed control at all.

 

Absolutely.

I think it's such an automatic call too often, but Kozma wasn't even close to getting that in the glove to go and get it. That the call was corrected was great. That it was corrected and hurt the Cardinals? Best call reversal ever.

 

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/393175531467718656/photo/1

 

He must have been watching Kozma's feet and not the ball. There's no other explanation for missing that. The ball was never in his glove.

 

Here is a valid argument in how the game can go way too long. They got the call right, sure. But they spent 10 minutes discussing it. If you have an umpire up in the booth, you get the corrected call in 30 seconds.