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Sox/Royals rained out today. Will be made up as a 1PM and 7PM doubleheader of 2 7 inning games. I'm beyond pissed about this. It's such an affront to ticket paying fans who don't even get two shorter games for the price of 1. The fact it's my cheaper than dirt cheap favorite team doing it makes it even worse from my end. MLB is the worst league, plain and simple and this is more proof.

This seems like a slight overreaction. But I’m pro-shorten the game so...

Yeah I mean the 7 inning game is still 1 in the win column. It doesn't piss me off as much as it did when it was only theoretical. I enjoy watching the shortened games.

@approxinfinity Living 8 miles from GA, I am a big MLB fan at the moment.

@mayjay I dunno. I don't think it's fair to punish the concession workers at the park, etc. I think this whole thing misses the mark a little.

That being said, the Republicans trying to steal elections they can't win is despicable. Rotten to the core.

I'm a traditional baseball person and will feel cheated out of 2 innings each game. Maybe if it was a normal DH, but not one in which they kick every one out. Then they should play nine innings. @Kcmatt7 There's lots of ways to shorten the games without, you know, shortening the games :)

@wissox didn’t u used to get mad cause the games were so long?

@Crimsonorblue22 Yes, and I still do. My line to Matt was shorten the games without shortening the games. In other words I still want 9 innings, just not 3 1/2 -4 hour games. Do you think MLB games should be 7 innings?

@wissox I am in favor of trying robot umps and essentially eliminating VR.

@approxinfinity I think Robot umps are coming but I know I'll say duh to myself, or maybe you will, but what's VR?

Video replay

Or review not sure

Replay is good, but it seems like it should go much quicker.

Great game today!

And the fans got 10 innings...without having to pay extra. Hmmm...overall, do games average less than or more than 9 innings. There are 7 inning dbl-headers, extra-innings, games called because of rain... @wissox, what's the call--good or bad overall? 🤔

Bad! Today was really bad!

@Crimsonorblue22 where’s the downvote button?

@wissox 😘

@approxinfinity said in 7 inning doubleheader:

@mayjay I dunno. I don't think it's fair to punish the concession workers at the park, etc. I think this whole thing misses the mark a little.

That being said, the Republicans trying to steal elections they can't win is despicable. Rotten to the core.

Here I was thinking about my old buckets friends...I see the lack of fun continues though as people can’t keep their politics out of a sports convo. Crazy that anyone would think a comment like this would further any conversation political or sports. And that’s the founder of the site!!! I was hoping after the election the crybaby political fanbois would maybe back off and allow a guy to enjoy sports again, but when surrounded by Karen’s on here I feel Lucy’d, keep it Brockmire. ✌️

@dylans you're the only crybaby I see here?

This was in context responding to @mayjay 's comment. Perhaps you're unaware of the current push of republican legislation to restrict voting rights in 40 states. The only faux pas here is that this comment belongs in the politics section. This can be asked for nicely instead of coming back to the board with a wild Haymaker.

@dylans Nobody here is not letting you enjoy sports. Comments can be ignored and users can be blocked so you don't see there posts.

If you aren't enjoying sports it isn't anyone here's fault.

@wissox Idk. I think the 7 inning double header is kind of nice... I know you are a purist so you won't agree.

I'm a big baseball guy but 162 3.5 hour games is literally 23 days of your life spent watching ball. I think we can spare a few innings...

@dylans @approxinfinity

Mea culpa for my reference to why I like MLB right now. My comment triggered 'prox's.

Kind of hard to talk about MLB as an institution in the baseball section without a reference to why the All Star Game was moved.

@Kcmatt7 said in 7 inning doubleheader:

literally 23 days of your life spent watching ball

Holy Crap! Imagine how many hours in that total would be commercials!

And I suspect the total time of ball in play would be just a few hours.

The rest? Waiting and waiting, sometimes in thrilling suspense, and sometimes with nothing happening except watching them spit or scratch.

I love baseball, but I would probably swallow a grenade if I had to watch a team's every game!

@mayjay I'd watch more 7 inning games than 9.... Just saying.

@Kcmatt7 It's fine. In fact if it helps bring back fans to the game maybe it'll be a good thing! As a kid I sat down for 2 hour games, not 3 1/2. Maybe I'd have found them boring too if it was like that. Instead I was raised watching someone like Bill Buckner who never struck out more than 40 times in a season over 22 ML seasons! Today guys literally strike out 40 times in a month sometimes.

@wissox Yeah, because of analytics (home runs are worth the strikeouts, etc). Thanks, slide rules.

@wissox Well this is something I can definitely agree on... Analytics has changed the game away from what used to be known as "good" stats.

Hitting .300 is no longer really a stat that we care about. The Mendoza line has become meaningless if you can hit 50 HRs while you do it.

I do think they should work to get more balls in play, but I'm not sure how they do that without very big rule changes. Moving the mound back a few feet and deadening the ball could help. But I don't really have an answer.