[外電] Even Mark Teixeira knows Red Sox-Yankees game lengths ar

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Even Mark Teixeira knows Red Sox-Yankees game lengths are getting ridiculous Published: Saturday, September 03, 2011, 5:38 PM Updated: Saturday, September 03, 2011, 7:28 PM By Ron Chimelis, The Republican Years ago, I pledged never to write a column about the length of baseball games, especially Red Sox-Yankees games. One reason is that it's a cliche of a column. Everybody does it, and I don't like repeating what everybody else is doing. Two, it seems pointless. Baseball officials appear incapable or disinterested in actually doing anything about it, so why keep whistling in the wind? I will now break that pledge, because I finally have an ally who counts. "It’s brutal. I can’t stand playing a nine-inning game in four hours,'' Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira told The New York Times. "It’s not baseball. I don’t even know how to describe it. "If I was a fan, why would I want to come watch people sitting around and talking back and forth, going to the mound, 2-0 sliders in the dirt?'' Give that man a cigar. Or the MVP Award. Finally, someone on the inside, stating the obvious: when two such very good teams are playing, the result should not be the most unwatchable baseball imaginable. Thursday's game took 4 hours, 21 minutes and ended at 11:32 p.m. The average length in the three-game Sox-Yankees series was 3:52. Time lost all meaning. By the ninth, so did the result, at least to many TV fans who had given up and gone to bed. That is the worst byproduct of these games that go on forever. Last year, umpire Joe West chided the Red Sox and Yankees for slow play. Players reaction was that if West didn't want to be there, nobody was forcing him. West's message was the right one from the wrong messenger, a controversial umpire. But Teixeira is another story. Sparky Anderson once said he never heard fans complaining about game lengths, only media working on deadlines. It is true that if you're lucky enough to score tickets for a Sox-Yankees game, your first thought is probably not how quickly you can leave. But marathon games are cheapening the outcomes to TV viewers and many paying customers. They want to care passionately about how the game turns out. By the sixth inning, they decide it's not worth finding out. That is like attending a movie but leaving in the middle. What does that say for the value of the production? And young fans? At 11:32 p.m., are you kidding? Thursday's drag-a-thon supplied an epic ending. The best closer in history, Mariano Rivera, struck out the best batter in the game today, Adrian Gonzalez, with the bases loaded to save a 4-2 Yankees win. Any baseball fan would have wanted to see that showdown. But how many stayed up to see it on TV? As for fans at Fenway, the last train rolled out of Kenmore Square at 10:50. Many had to choose between watching the end of a close game and getting home. It is obvious that baseball officials feel helpless. The Red Sox and Yankees are loaded with superstars. They will dictate the pace, not Bud Selig nor his assistant, Joe Torre, nor the umpires. The umpires' smallish strikes zones don't help. It is not all their fault. In the old days, an ump could widen the zone and get hitters to swing. Today, their work is graded by pitch-tracking systems that put every pitch under review. Knowing they are being judged and micro-watched, the umps now treat every pitch like it's Game 7. That might sound like the way it ought to be, but the fear of looking bad on strikes outside the zone can cause many to squeeze the pitchers. That didn't stop Alfonso Marquez from calling Gonzalez out on a borderline low pitch that ended Thursday's game. The 381st and final pitch of the game was a moment of compelling drama. But countless fans had given up long before then. That's bad for baseball. If these teams meet in the ALCS, I can forsee games pushing the five-hour mark. That will be worse. Don't take my word for it. Listen to Mark Teixeira. It's out of hand. Something must be done Fans who care about Red Sox-Yankees games in the first inning should be able to care enough to watch the dramatic ninth, rather than giving up in exhaustion and tuning out. http://ppt.cc/aIeu 關於基襪大戰時間過長的問題，鐵爺也提出了他的看法 "那是殘酷的，我不可能站著打長達四個小時比賽"，鐵爺是這麼告訴紐約時報 "這不是棒球，我知道該怎麼描述它" 星期四的比賽總共花了4小時21分，並在晚上11點32分結束，基襪三場大戰平均3小時52分冗長的時間讓比賽失去意義，至少電視前的觀眾放棄看到最後而選擇上床睡覺到芬威球場看球的球迷，最後一班火車在22:50，換言之，他們必須選擇看到最後還是趕著回家要是這兩隊在ALCS相遇，很可能打到五小時，那將會更糟糕本文不斷反覆探討冗長比賽的弊端跟如何解決之道 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 180.176.2.165

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