By the time Wednesday's Red Sox-Yankees game ended, not only had the Mets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers and Devils games long since concluded, so had those teams' post-game shows.
Yikes. Between her pre-game report and her post-game work, YES's Kim Jones would have had time to cover an entire Giants game. In the time it took him to call the game, Michael Kay could have hosted his four-hour show on 1050 ESPN. I could have written 30 blog posts.
Here are the game times of the 22 Yanks-Bosox games over the past two years, in order: 3:18, 3:26, 3:34, 3:56, 3:25, 3:11, 3:28, 3:22, 2:59, 3:53, 3:39, 4:04, 3:11, 3:26, 3:01, 4:43, 3:37, 3:10, 2:59, 2:49 (with a 2:11 rain delay), 3:55, 4:08.
Ken Davidoff: Call Bud Selig and ask him what he's going to do about this.
Comments (6)
To put it in perspective, the Nets FINISHED THEIR SEASON before the Yanks and Sox finished their single game.
Oh, please. The only people who care about long baseball games are cranky media types like you and me. The fans don't seem to mind.
Ken, AL baseball that long in that circumstance is unwatchable.
Signed,
NL Fans who know better.
Ken: I think you're wrong. This situation has gotten to the point where actual fans do care. But thanks for reading.
I guess that's my point. CMG is an NL fan. If s/he were a Yankees or Red Sox fan, I think s/he would feel differently. I threw this question out there on my blog today - so far, people are generally unoffended by the length of games.
Dude,
How many of them have wives and/or kids? Sheesh.