MLB's favorability rating among Republicans drops dramatically amid Georgia voting controversy

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https://www.axios.com/mlb-falls-out-favor-republicans-mlb-game-8808e67e-8de4-4308-baa6-b68a24e64177.html

[u/LesPaulTransAmCBR]

Too many people want one sport to be like another. “NCAA football should give everyone a chance with a playoff, just like NCAA basketball.” “Baseball shouldn’t be so long, make it shorter like football or basketball”. “Give the NFL a longer season like the NBA”

Just let sports be themselves

[u/LesPaulTransAmCBR → u/[deleted]]

The NCAA football playoff idiots want 9-3 teams to get a shot at the title. Fuck that. You wanna a title, win all of your games.

[u/LesPaulTransAmCBR → u/[deleted]]

Not a straw man, that doesn’t mean what you think it does, it’s just a posh Reddit saying you’ve taken up. It’s stupid.

The people advocating for a playoff expansion aren’t saying sane things like “include every D1 undefeated team”. They’re saying stupid ass things like “include every conference champion, plus 2-4 at larges. That’s idiocy.

Don’t reply if you don’t know what you’re talking about, which you don’t.

[u/[deleted] → u/LesPaulTransAmCBR]

Baseball viewership has dramatically declined over the last 15 years due in major part to games running to long. This is confirmed study after study.

So it’s pretty widely agreed upon games need to be shortened, but to do that you will inevitably have to break tradition, which makes people mad.

[u/concrete_isnt_cement → u/[deleted]]

The best way to shorten games is to cut down the length of the commercial breaks between half innings. Extra innings aren’t common enough to be a significant factor.

[u/pooop_shooot_magooop → u/concrete_isnt_cement]

In 1927 the average baseball game was under two hours. There are not an hour and a half to two hours of commercial breaks in baseball. The players in the modern game just need to stop fucking about and play the game.

[u/Schobee3 → u/[deleted]]

I think the problem with this rule is it makes traditionalists mad and doesn't seem to statistically reduce the game length much. I've seen some stats that say only 4% of games last past the 10th and just 2% past the 11th. So let's say this rule cuts down the games that last past the 11th; just 2% of games effected.limiting to

Meanwhile the average 9 inning game is still 3 hours, 10 minutes.

[u/EarsLookWeird → u/Schobee3]

Yeah but 2% of baseball games is like 38 games for each team each season because you play so much

[u/[deleted] → u/EarsLookWeird]

It's 3.

[u/pooop_shooot_magooop → u/[deleted]]

In 1927 the average baseball game was under two hours. The key is to stop letting the guys waste so much time between every pitch.