Baseball is a great game. So why does it suck?

Thursday, July 12, 2012 What sucks the life out of games? Dead time between pitches.

Why do we put up with it?  Are we stupid?  Why watch the great game slowed so much that only the fast forwarding of the DVR can keep it entertaining?

I've been watching recent games exclusively by recording and then moving through them at a pace that is reasonable.  Virtually no dead time between pitches.  You can even watch this way while the game is in progress.  Wait at least one hour after the game actually starts, skipping the pre-game babbling.  Then start watching while the DVR continues to record.  But be careful.  Games are so filled with dead time that a one hour lead may not be enough for the game to complete in real time while you are fast forwarding past the dead spots.

This means that attending games is absurd.  Does the Major Baseball League (MBL) realize this?  It will when attendance plummets.

The nature of the game is slow anyway.  But slowing down an already slow game is really dumb.