(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.