(07-20-2014 04:55 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(07-18-2014 06:07 PM)Stammers Wrote:  

(07-18-2014 02:47 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(07-18-2014 12:22 PM)Stammers Wrote:  What's wrong with baseball?

1. Most pro athletes (MLB, NHL, NBA) loafed 15 years ago. Other sports have fixed this except baseball. Today players making $10 million a year still refuse to run out ground balls.

2. The Yankees $238 million payroll competes against the Astros $21 million payroll for the same trophy

3. The idiot commissioner spent most of his tenure not giving a **** about PED's.

4. Game are too long

The game would look drastically different if A. Bartlett Giamatti hadn't died. When you hire a piece of **** used car salesman to run the league, what do you expect?

NBA players today don't loaf? News to me. Hell, half the regular season players go through the motions.

The NBA STILL doesn't give an ish about PED's. They don't test for HGH? Ever wonder why Lebron looks the way he does? Hmmm.

The payrolls are what they are. MLB STILL has had a more diverse group of champions than any other major sport.

Since 2000 (number of different franchises to win title)
MLB:9 (doesn't include this season, of course)
NFL:9
NBA:6 (only 8 since 1984)

Longer games? They are no longer nine innings? The 2013 season average was 12 minutes longer than the 1987 season average, or about 40 seconds longer per half inning.

Part of it is that there are, on average, two more strikeouts per game, a 35% increase from the 80's. More strikeouts=more pitches. More pitches=more time.

Also blame dikwads like LaRussa who go to the pen for every dadgum lefty-righty matchup from the 7th inning on. That's the real timesuck.

Quote:NBA players today don't loaf? News to me. Hell, half the regular season players go through the motions.

Seems kind of obvious to everyone that they loaf a lot less. I'm glad I could be the one to let you in on the big secret.

1958 - 1995
39 years
NBA teams averaged at least 101.4 ppg EVERY single season

1996-2014
19 years
NBA teams NEVER averaged at least 101.4 ppg per season

Quote:Longer games?

Is this a question? If it is, why do you give reasons why the games ARE longer and still ask the question? You seem to know the answer; if you don't; guess, it's not that hard. Thanks for the nice list of reasons, but seriously; who gives a ****?

In any event; good for you that you acknowledge what every single human being on the planet agrees with...namely that baseball games are too long.

Quote:MLB STILL has had a more diverse group of champions than any other major sport.

Playoff Droughts
MLB
4 - 10+ years
9 - 5+ years

NFL
4 - 10+ years
8 - 5+ years

NBA
1 - 10+ years
3 - 5+ years

NHL
0 - 10+ years
4 - 5+ years

Finalists Since 2000
17 NFL
17 NHL (includes lockout season, no champ)
15 MLB
12 NBA

Champions Since 2000
10 NFL
9 NHL
9 MLB
6 NBA

I guess a three way tie = MORE than any other major sport. That assumes that your info is correct. The NFL has had 10 champions since 2000; so your info is (unfortunately) not correct.

Saluki facts 101 on full display.

There is a difference between offering a counter and being a flat out *******, I guess a leopard just can't change his spots.

As for the longer games, I never denied they weren't longer--it's a fact. However, the bigger issue with it is that people in today's remote control day and age want immediate results now now now and baseball is viewed (with game times just being a scapegoat) as the reason. Hell, NCAAf and NFL games routinely go past 3:30 and NBA games (which despite a strict time of play of 48 mins have seen game times increase in the nature of 2:30+).

As for titles, I include SEASONS from 2000 on, you added the 1999 season (2000 Super Bowl), so the NFL and MLB are tied, BUT this MLB season has yet to have a WS.

I don't count the NHL because no one gives an s about it.

As for teams making playoffs--give baseball the same inclusion parameters that the NBA has. 53% of teams make the NBA playoffs, 37.5% of the NFL teams make the playoffs and in MLB only 31% of the teams make it (up from 25% when most stats are cited).