Making Baseball not boring and sucky?

Is baseball boring as hell?

  • No doubt about it

  • Baseball is great as it is!


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fustercluck

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The 2013 MLB season is underway. I've never been a baseball fan myself. I like watching almost any other sport besides baseball. It's just much too long and boring for me and the games being played don't matter at all 80% of the time. I could be wrong on this, but I did the math and there are about 2430 MLB games played per season. PER SEASON. Teams playing 162 games per year seems ridiculous to me.

Maybe baseball just isn't for me and people who enjoy it will always enjoy it how it is. After all it's pretty much been the same game for 150+ years, why change it now? I should just stick to what I like and stop complaining about how boring baseball is.

BUT I WONT. There's gotta be something they could do to make the game of baseball less boring and more entertaining. When you compare watching Baseball to say, watching Football, there's just no contest. Football is much more entertaining. A diamondbacks game just went 16 innings...5 hours and 32 minutes. Those poor people!

I'd like to hear your suggestions to make Baseball more watchable, more entertaining, more fast paced perhaps. Accepting both serious well-thought out arguments and crazy/silly ideas alike.

another question would be, will there be any major changes made to baseball in the next 10 years due to the shorter attention spans of new generations?
 
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rcpratt

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If you don't like it, go watch football or basketball or something where you can be entertained by constant scoring. Same thing I say to people who bitch about soccer.

Let the rest of us enjoy it in peace.

The only changes I see coming in the next few years are (1) lowered mound to reduce strikeouts, which are getting rather high, (2) continue to more strictly enforce the time between pitches (won't make any measurable difference, though), and (3) expanded instant replay.
 

Jimzz

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Baseball on TV is not that great IMO unless its your team. But if you are at the stadium its much better. That and you can actually afford tickets to a baseball game, try saying that about a NFL game.

I went to a Nationals game when the Braves were in town. Really liked it and was fun. That and wanted to see chipper play at least once.
 

ichy

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It's not the lack of scoring that's the issue, it's the lack of anything at all happening most of the time.
 

Anubis

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shorten the season
160 games is way to fing many. thats my main issue with it. same with hockey and bb
seasons are o fing long
 

Vdubchaos

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I think EVERY sport has it's pros/cons and is boring and exciting in some way/shape or form.

It's up to YOU to decide which one you like/enjoy the most.

TO ME it goes in the following order (NOTE: it has a lot to do with childhood as much as "excitement" portion).

Football (Soccer) - by far the one I enjoy the most. I grew up in Europe and played it my entire life. Where I come from, Soccer was more important than politics and believe it or not our country started Communist revolution ON THE SOCCER FIELD!!!

Basketball - I played it from 12+ almost every day of my life. I enjoy watching it (although not as much as I used to in the 80s/90s).

Baseball/American Football - lumped in the same category/level for me. I can't say one is more exciting TO ME more than the other. I like baseball cause there is TONS of games and you can actually go see a game (DIRT CHEAP) and I hate football cause the season is so short and I will never be able to see ANY game....EVER.

There is NO PERFECT SPORT.

BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER!!!
 
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Gibsons

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Don't let players wait so long between every pitch.

This, and almost anything else to speed the game up. Batters can't just leave the box and don't have an infinite number of timeouts. Pitchers can't take forever between throws.
 

waggy

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MY big issues with baseball are:

  • each game is 4 hours. it needs to be far less
  • 2-3 games a week for 6 months? i lose interest if i try to watch a full season
  • the cubs suck
  • far to long between each pitch
 

SunnyD

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Full contact baseball. Why is there only ever 1-4 "offensive" players on the field at any given time? Make em FIGHT for the ball!
 

NFS4

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Land mines in the outfield. Michael J. Fox manning a sniper rifle in the upper deck to give the batters a fighting chance.
 

rcpratt

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MY big issues with baseball are:

  • each game is 4 hours. it needs to be far less
  • 2-3 games a week for 6 months? i lose interest if i try to watch a full season
  • the cubs suck
  • far to long between each pitch
Too lazy to check, but I guarantee that the average length of a baseball game is much closer to 3 hours than 4 hours (unless you're a frequent Yankees or Red Sox watcher).

It's 6-7 games per week. Not sure what baseball you're watching.

Yes, the Cubs suck.
 

waggy

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Full contact baseball. Why is there only ever 1-4 "offensive" players on the field at any given time? Make em FIGHT for the ball!

agreed.

Also why do you get to walk to first if you get hit by a pitch? fuck that learn to dodge it you pussy! also if the pitcher hits you It's an out!

a KO from a pitch? a score for the pitcher.
 

BergeLSU

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This, and almost anything else to speed the game up. Batters can't just leave the box and don't have an infinite number of timeouts. Pitchers can't take forever between throws.


In the past few years the college game started using a pitch clock.

Pitchers have 20 seconds between pitches with no one on base, starting when the pitcher receives the ball from the catcher and stopping when he begins his motion. A violation results in a subsequent ball.
For hitters, leaving the box with five seconds or less on the clock would result in an automatic strike.

At the 2009 SEC tournament, games lasted an average 3 hours and 17 minutes. A year later under the experimental pitch clock, games lasted 2 hours and 43 minutes. The longest 2010 game matched the 2009 game average, a 17.26 percent decrease in game-time.
 

SunnyD

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agreed.

Also why do you get to walk to first if you get hit by a pitch? fuck that learn to dodge it you pussy! also if the pitcher hits you It's an out!

a KO from a pitch? a score for the pitcher.

Right? If the batter is able to get up from a headshot, then the pitcher better fucking run. I mean seriously... which one is the dude with the big fucking stick in his hands?
 

Dirigible

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Baseball is fun when you're at the game, drinking beer and shooting the shit.

Baseball is a good radio game to have on while you're working on a project around the house.

Watching baseball on TV is dull.



I agree with the boobs suggestion.
 

waggy

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Too lazy to check, but I guarantee that the average length of a baseball game is much closer to 3 hours than 4 hours (unless you're a frequent Yankees or Red Sox watcher).

It's 6-7 games per week. Not sure what baseball you're watching.

Yes, the Cubs suck.

oh 6-7 games yeah. whatever it just proves my point. when you have 162 games in a season who fucking cares? i lose interest in baseball. now i just watch the last month and playoffs.

sigh. some day the cubs will win it all! i just hope its before i die..

Right? If the batter is able to get up from a headshot, then the pitcher better fucking run. I mean seriously... which one is the dude with the big fucking stick in his hands?

Fuck exactly! The batter is then allowed 3 hits but each one counts as a Strike.
 

waggy

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Baseball is fun when you're at the game, drinking beer and shooting the shit.

Watching baseball on TV is dull.



I agree with the boobs suggestion.

this. i enjoy going to a game. its a blast with friends or the kids. nothing beats watching the game drinking and eating unhealthy food.
 

hclarkjr

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If you don't like it, go watch football or basketball or something where you can be entertained by constant scoring. Same thing I say to people who bitch about soccer.

Let the rest of us enjoy it in peace.

The only changes I see coming in the next few years are (1) lowered mound to reduce strikeouts, which are getting rather high, (2) continue to more strictly enforce the time between pitches (won't make any measurable difference, though), and (3) expanded instant replay.
too add to these ideas i think they need to shorten the season some, they need to bring back scheduled double headers to shorten the season so they are not playing onto october where it gets colder. they used to play only 152 games or so many years ago, bring something like that back
 

rcpratt

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too add to these ideas i think they need to shorten the season some, they need to bring back scheduled double headers to shorten the season so they are not playing onto october where it gets colder. they used to play only 152 games or so many years ago, bring something like that back
I don't disagree, but scheduled doubleheaders = lost revenue. I would be very surprised if they did that.
 

NutBucket

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I don't disagree, but scheduled doubleheaders = lost revenue. I would be very surprised if they did that.
Why would that be? 12pm start for game 1, 7pm for game 2. Separate tickets for each game. I see no revenue issues.