Last night’s time of game: 3:42.
I don’t know when the game ended, I can estimate 11:47pm EDT because I was long gone.
I’m one of the casuals. A lapsed baseball fan who started watching MLB on September 30th this year (and I plan to skip the first 6 months next year because the current playoff format is absurd.)
Last night I gave the game “one more inning” at 5-0 because the Dodgers have some actual star players that are fun to watch, and I was rewarded with a fun inning.
Then I did some mental math. Once again, it was the 6th inning and 10pm. Like I did the night before, I decided I didn’t want to chase the game until midnight so I turned it off. The game is still too slowly paced to sit there for two more hours playing on my phone waiting for something to happen,
Sometime around 4am I woke up and checked my phone, saw the score, and went back to bed. That’s my engagement with the sport these days.
This was baseball’s big chance. The TV numbers were up from the downs and they will have a nice story to tell, but what happens when the World Series ISN’T Yankees Dodgers.
I don’t think baseball has learned a thing. The biggest moments happen too late. The games are 4 hours long.
They will tell a story about how great a season this was, and sure it was less horrible than recent seasons, but I am not sure Baseball Is Back, I think a sexy match-up just hid the problems,.
