2023 World Series TV Rating

George Steinbrenner thinks this is a great idea, and also wonders why the Yankees suck now.

 

It’s better than this

 

yeah, a sport that rewards people for intentionally breaking rules at the end - fuckin fantastic sport there. Pins and needles.

 

Fouls committed intentionally to stop the clock should be called as intentional fouls — two shots and the ball.

 

South Florida (with former Tennessee OC Alex Golesh running the show) is running 84 plays per game, 18 more than a year ago. That leads the nation.

No SEC team is among the leaders. Tennessee tops the conference but is only 34th nationally at 73.0 plays per game. That's only 0.9 fewer plays per game than last season. Alabama is running 2.9 fewer plays per game. Far poorer QB play from both teams may contribute to that.

College Football Stats - College FB Team Plays per Game | TeamRankings.com

 

The slowest moving clock in the stadium is on the stick carried by the red hat official counting down 3 minutes, 10 seconds worth of commercials and scene-setting from the booth. Plus the pregame bloviating that turns a 2:30 start into a 2:37 kick.

 

That wasn't the only trash holding up the games. The stoppage after first downs (I don't know if that asinine rule was changed).

I come from a time when they used to =show= somebody singing the anthem before every game. I believe WGN would do it before every Cubs broadcast, home or road.

 

Radio play-by-play announcers, in particular, get bristly at overly long anthems. When I worked the board for Gary Gerould on the Sacramento Kings network in the early 1990s, he'd schedule a two-minute network commercial break during the anthem, and if the singer dragged it out more than two minutes, he'd be stewing on the feed, muttering under his breath and saying, "hurry up already, damn it." That was back before music bumpers, which might have been invented for situations just like that.

He'd also bitch about some of the radio perches around the league, especially when they put the road guys up in the rafters. I can't remember which was the one he hated most, but one time he got on the feed during a break and said, "Mark, I'm so far away from the court, I could double as an air traffic controller."