In a society that has come to crave fast paced hard hitting action, baseball serves as the perfect background noise for an evening nap. Take the predictability of last night’s Yankees-Red Sox tilt for example. Whenever these two meet, count on it being nationally televised and count on it taking at least four hours to play out. Sure enough, two hours into the game, the Yankees were about to step into the box for the top of the fifth while, over in Texas, the Rangers and Indians (a game that had started at the same time) were headed into the eighth inning. How does this happen? What’s making these games drag on so much longer than other games around the league?
First off, let’s take the time to thank Bud Selig for this. It was Selig’s idea, after all, to extend commercial breaks on nationally televised games between innings so baseball could maximize revenue. As for the “twelve second rule” which allegedly ...
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