Speaking of Spring Training.
Got to watch the Marlins drub the Mets yesterday.
Only upshot was my friend caught a baseball.
Man, those Mets pitchers were awful
Out of curiosity..how bad did you roast in the sun in that park? I've been thinking of spring-straining game..in this pocket of parks in Tampa bay area. I understand Jet Blue Park is new fancy-dancy park in Ft. Myers. I feel a pull to see my Red Sawx play but I'm not going to roast my already-addled brain.
Thanks for that frank review. I suspected that might be the case. Pretty shocking to pay $50 for a ticket, just for shelter from the blazing sun though. Of course, they charge whatever the traffic will bear. Just feel that they should make it a little more fan friendly for more viewers. Does a viewer have to carry a parasol? Then you'd be obstructing the view of the person behind you.
I vaguely remember during the baseball strike of 1994, several baseball stadiums pulled off the complete opposite. They let fans come in to watch an imaginary game with no players. The announcer would perform some kind of baseball game turned radio drama whereas the stadium attendees would cheer and boo according to the imagined action in their minds.
Apparently at the Orioles game an hour was chopped off the game as it finished in under 2 hr instead of the more typical 3 hrs. When there's no preening, stepping out of the box or away from the mound, time has been shortened in the game by an hour. How 'bout that sports fans?
I bet you dollars to donuts that it won't be nearly as observable when they let in the clowns...I mean fannies. Wait and see!
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Thu 30 Apr, 2015 07:17 pm
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MLB showing notable drop in game time, might relax pace-of-play fines
How effective have Major League Baseball's new pace-of-game measures been in the season's first month?
So effective that officials from MLB and the players' union tell ESPN.com that they are unlikely to implement
the series of tardiness fines that were supposed to go into effect Friday.
The two sides are having "dialogue" about relaxing or eliminating most of those fines, said Tony Clark,
executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, because the results so far have been
so good without them.
Through Wednesday, the average time of a nine-inning game was down to 2 hours, 53 minutes and 40 seconds,
according to MLB. It's a drop of more than 8½ minutes from the 3:02:21 average for the full 2014 season, and
of more than seven minutes compared to the average of 3:01 at the same point last season.
I picked 5 games played in AL from last week and came up with 2:50 taking an average. I only eliminated the high- scoring multi-pitcher games - otherwise it was random.
