Daily News | Ain’t that American: Baseball finally returns | Marcus Hayes
The past two years weren’t the same. Baseball’s truncated 60-game season as COVID-19 raged through the country, and its socially distanced, social-justice adjusted season in 2021, served more of a reminder of our challenges and our differences than of our bonds. But, as COVID cases diminish and as we strive to better understand each other, this summer promises to be a better story. Not a perfect tale, but, again, this is America.Baseball is back ...
As thrilling as the weekly holiday the NFL gives major cities, and as interesting as basketball can become when its supernovas collide, America remains tethered to a ridiculous venture: a timeless, clock-less game that cannot be played in precipitation. A game made ever more unappealing by Ivy League accountants in caps who have so distilled the game to an unnatural calculus problem that analytics have literally been litigated out of the game.
The average nine-inning regular-season major league game this year was played in an all-time high of 3 hours and 10 minutes, three minutes longer than last year and 19 minutes longer than in 2011. The changes should both speed the game along and produce more action than the all-or-nothing proposition it has become, in which batters either hit a home run, walk, strike out, or smack a ball at one of the seven players positioned to the pitcher’s left or right.
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