(06-20-2022 08:25 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-19-2022 09:50 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(06-19-2022 06:32 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-19-2022 06:10 PM)ken d Wrote:  This could have been, should have been, compelling TV. But four hours+ is just too long for me to watch. What a snoozefest. I hope the remaining games are more entertaining.

Yes, I tuned in at times, but the game just dragged and dragged.

I ended up watching way more Drag racing and US Open golf. And Formula 1 racing.

The game just never ended.

And it may always be that way. College baseball has no monetary incentive to speed up its pace of play.

MLB has a lot of money riding on its games ending more quickly than that. Each MLB team is making at least $100 million/year in TV money. That incentive doesn't exist in college baseball. ESPN has a low-money contract that gives them the rights to all NCAA championships except D-I men's basketball. There's no contract for regular season college baseball rights, either; those rights are just part of the TV deals that include what TV really cares about, i.e. football and basketball games.

So, unlike MLB, there's no river of money in college baseball that might dry up if the games run on too long.

When college baseball drags, its usually because the pitchers don't have control and are walking lots of batters.

Maybe, but today's AU vs Stanford game had 5 walks, and took about 3 hours and 30 minutes.

These games just go on and on, IMO.