08-21-2014, 04:29 PM
Length of games is not really the issue, it's pace. People will gladly spend 12 hours on a Sunday watching football because 1) it's a weekly event not a daily ordeal like baseball 2) it's fucking Sunday and there's nothing else to do, and 3) winter time blows for 70% of the country, so football has a captive audience. Baseball requires a different level of patience and commitment than all of the other major sports. Speeding up the games would at least help attract the casual 1-3 game per week fan. Kids have largely written off the game because they have the attention spans of termites. This is a huge problem, regardless of how much cash all the TV contracts pull in. The avg age of baseball fans is well above 40. Something drastic needs to be done.