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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/4/2023 7:42:35 PM

Karl Juhnke

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Their pitcher pitched the whole game? That’s allowed??

Rocco is stunned. He should protest.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/4/2023 7:44:18 PM

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Game time 1:57.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 7:08:27 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Mister Ed

quote:

ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

Amazingly brisk game. Thanks to pitch clock and good pitching.

Too fast for me

Clock is ok, maybe a touch longer.

Hurry up and be done in 2 1/2 hours is not going to draw more people to games.

Hate it!

Now that you have just two hours of entertainment at a game, they have raised the prices of food to make up for the loss of revenue because of shorter games.

More money out of your pocket for less entertainment. And somehow they think this is going to equate to better fan support? Good luck with that.

It's bad enough that they have thrown out 120+ years of history with ridiculous rule changes. As a fan the original game of baseball, I'm offended and turned off by the league leadership.

Starting with a guy at second base in extra innings? It's just silly.

Not being able to align your defense how you want to? Beyond silly.

Last season the average attendance in baseball was around 26,500 per-game. 10 years earlier it was 30,800.

Last weekend in Kansas City, the second game of the series was on a Saturday. It was the first Saturday game of the season in Kansas City. 16,633 in attendance. Sunday's game, played in 72-degree weather.....14,589 in attendance. Baseball purists are not going to watch this garbage.

< Message edited by Brad H -- 4/5/2023 7:26:04 AM >

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 11:59:52 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Brad H

quote:

ORIGINAL: Mister Ed

quote:

ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

Amazingly brisk game. Thanks to pitch clock and good pitching.

Too fast for me

Clock is ok, maybe a touch longer.

Hurry up and be done in 2 1/2 hours is not going to draw more people to games.

Hate it!

Now that you have just two hours of entertainment at a game, they have raised the prices of food to make up for the loss of revenue because of shorter games.

More money out of your pocket for less entertainment. And somehow they think this is going to equate to better fan support? Good luck with that.

It's bad enough that they have thrown out 120+ years of history with ridiculous rule changes. As a fan the original game of baseball, I'm offended and turned off by the league leadership.

Starting with a guy at second base in extra innings? It's just silly.

Not being able to align your defense how you want to? Beyond silly.

Last season the average attendance in baseball was around 26,500 per-game. 10 years earlier it was 30,800.

Last weekend in Kansas City, the second game of the series was on a Saturday. It was the first Saturday game of the season in Kansas City. 16,633 in attendance. Sunday's game, played in 72-degree weather.....14,589 in attendance. Baseball purists are not going to watch this garbage.

Problems I see:
1) Tanking teams like "KC Royals" is the problem---you won't see that in a St. Louis game. The baseball purists in St. Louis don't mind 36,000 but attendance is always worse before school is out (also). Twins attendance sank last year after they couldn't win a game in September.
2) Cold weather teams should start on the road for the majority of their first 2 weeks.
3) Prices on beer and food were high before the changes.
4) Covid affected attendance also.
5) Everyone hates the runner at 2nd but it all but eliminates the 15-22 inning games.

< Message edited by Phil Riewer -- 4/5/2023 12:09:00 PM >

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 12:10:33 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Brad H

quote:

ORIGINAL: Mister Ed

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ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

Amazingly brisk game. Thanks to pitch clock and good pitching.

Too fast for me

Clock is ok, maybe a touch longer.

Hurry up and be done in 2 1/2 hours is not going to draw more people to games.

Hate it!

Now that you have just two hours of entertainment at a game, they have raised the prices of food to make up for the loss of revenue because of shorter games.

More money out of your pocket for less entertainment. And somehow they think this is going to equate to better fan support? Good luck with that.

It's bad enough that they have thrown out 120+ years of history with ridiculous rule changes. As a fan the original game of baseball, I'm offended and turned off by the league leadership.

Starting with a guy at second base in extra innings? It's just silly.

Not being able to align your defense how you want to? Beyond silly.

Last season the average attendance in baseball was around 26,500 per-game. 10 years earlier it was 30,800.

Last weekend in Kansas City, the second game of the series was on a Saturday. It was the first Saturday game of the season in Kansas City. 16,633 in attendance. Sunday's game, played in 72-degree weather.....14,589 in attendance. Baseball purists are not going to watch this garbage.

Attendance is a MAJOR problem for MLB.

Of all the major sports, baseball is, by far, the most financially reliant on putting butts in the seats.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 12:51:49 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

quote:

ORIGINAL: Brad H

quote:

ORIGINAL: Mister Ed

quote:

ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

Amazingly brisk game. Thanks to pitch clock and good pitching.

Too fast for me

Clock is ok, maybe a touch longer.

Hurry up and be done in 2 1/2 hours is not going to draw more people to games.

Hate it!

Now that you have just two hours of entertainment at a game, they have raised the prices of food to make up for the loss of revenue because of shorter games.

More money out of your pocket for less entertainment. And somehow they think this is going to equate to better fan support? Good luck with that.

It's bad enough that they have thrown out 120+ years of history with ridiculous rule changes. As a fan the original game of baseball, I'm offended and turned off by the league leadership.

Starting with a guy at second base in extra innings? It's just silly.

Not being able to align your defense how you want to? Beyond silly.

Last season the average attendance in baseball was around 26,500 per-game. 10 years earlier it was 30,800.

Last weekend in Kansas City, the second game of the series was on a Saturday. It was the first Saturday game of the season in Kansas City. 16,633 in attendance. Sunday's game, played in 72-degree weather.....14,589 in attendance. Baseball purists are not going to watch this garbage.

Problems I see:
1) Tanking teams like "KC Royals" is the problem---you won't see that in a St. Louis game. The baseball purists in St. Louis don't mind 36,000 but attendance is always worse before school is out (also). Twins attendance sank last year after they couldn't win a game in September.
2) Cold weather teams should start on the road for the majority of their first 2 weeks.
3) Prices on beer and food were high before the changes.
4) Covid affected attendance also.
5) Everyone hates the runner at 2nd but it all but eliminates the 15-22 inning games.

another problem is the uneven field that is in play.

New York Yankees, Mets, Dodgers can spend spend spend. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati etc etc can't hope to keep up and still make a profit. When you start every year with the assumption that all or most of the Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers are automatically in the playoffs...you have a problem.

You will inheriantly start losing fans int he smaller market as they start to feel like there is NO hope for their team to reach the promised land.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 1:22:35 PM 2 votes

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Why would I want to make a 4 hour round trip drive to watch 2 hours of baseball? Sure, as an outlier or unusual circumstance and one-time novelty, that's cool. I remember being at game at the Metrodome with Buehrle vs Silva and it was like a hour and 50 minutes. It was memorable. I don't want every game to be like that. It's not worth my time or effort driving there for a short game. In a way it's also not worth my time or effort to turn it on the radio or watch it on TV either. I'm here to invest my time and interest into a game. There's not even time to comprehend what's going on. There's no feel. Tempo does not equal feel. It becomes monotony in fast-motion, and that doesn't work for me as a baseball fan.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 3:00:10 PM

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Why would I want to make a 4 hour round trip drive to watch 2 hours of baseball? Sure, as an outlier or unusual circumstance and one-time novelty, that's cool. I remember being at game at the Metrodome with Buehrle vs Silva and it was like a hour and 50 minutes. It was memorable. I don't want every game to be like that. It's not worth my time or effort driving there for a short game. In a way it's also not worth my time or effort to turn it on the radio or watch it on TV either. I'm here to invest my time and interest into a game. There's not even time to comprehend what's going on. There's no feel. Tempo does not equal feel. It becomes monotony in fast-motion, and that doesn't work for me as a baseball fan.

Average game is 2 1/2 now previous 3 1/4. You know why that particular game went that way; 2 of the quickest working pitchers ever.

Most that come to a game come early and walk around and check out the stadium.....especially if it is a 2-3 time/event/visit a year. I think they will eventually adjust the clock but it is a necessity now just like it was for basketball.

My uncle likes to finish golfing and get home right when it is time to go to bed (10ish during the summer).....sounds exactly like you Matt.

< Message edited by Phil Riewer -- 4/5/2023 3:11:16 PM >

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 3:53:04 PM

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: Brad H

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ORIGINAL: Mister Ed

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ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

Amazingly brisk game. Thanks to pitch clock and good pitching.

Too fast for me

Clock is ok, maybe a touch longer.

Hurry up and be done in 2 1/2 hours is not going to draw more people to games.

Hate it!

Now that you have just two hours of entertainment at a game, they have raised the prices of food to make up for the loss of revenue because of shorter games.

More money out of your pocket for less entertainment. And somehow they think this is going to equate to better fan support? Good luck with that.

It's bad enough that they have thrown out 120+ years of history with ridiculous rule changes. As a fan the original game of baseball, I'm offended and turned off by the league leadership.

Starting with a guy at second base in extra innings? It's just silly.

Not being able to align your defense how you want to? Beyond silly.

Last season the average attendance in baseball was around 26,500 per-game. 10 years earlier it was 30,800.

Last weekend in Kansas City, the second game of the series was on a Saturday. It was the first Saturday game of the season in Kansas City. 16,633 in attendance. Sunday's game, played in 72-degree weather.....14,589 in attendance. Baseball purists are not going to watch this garbage.

Attendance is a MAJOR problem for MLB.

Of all the major sports, baseball is, by far, the most financially reliant on putting butts in the seats.

So they idea is to invest up front in building a team that the butts feel like is really in the mix, and the butts will come?

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 4:17:10 PM

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The idea is trying to figure out how to raise the popularity of the game.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 4:34:56 PM

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I want the Twins games to go so fast that Pagan has no time to warm up and get into the game.

One of the main problems with long games isn't so fans like Matt lose interest but rather that kids lose interest.
Baseball is terrible at grooming young fans to like MLB. They play the game but watching the game is boring.

And they have priced families out of attending the games.

It doesn't help that baseball is essentially the last entertainment segment to figure out streaming. To block out games for your team when you subscribe to MLB is dumb and dumber. Not to mention that the only streaming service showing Twins games on BSN was Direct TV Streaming.

As I understand, FUBO TV is now partnered with BSN. How long BSN is in business remains to be seen.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 5:09:19 PM

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Lopez was cruising. Struck out the side in the 7th, so our genius manager goes to the pen and watches them give up 4 runs in 1 inning...

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 5:45:22 PM

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Lopez was cruising. Struck out the side in the 7th, so our genius manager goes to the pen and watches them give up 4 runs in 1 inning...

He had thrown 88 pitches.
His arm was barely attached to his shoulder.
He had faced the top 5 hitters 3.
.THREE times.
Rocco's analytics cookbook says replace the starter

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 6:44:27 PM

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ORIGINAL: MDK

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

Lopez was cruising. Struck out the side in the 7th, so our genius manager goes to the pen and watches them give up 4 runs in 1 inning...

He had thrown 88 pitches.
His arm was barely attached to his shoulder.
He had faced the top 5 hitters 3.
.THREE times.
Rocco's analytics cookbook says replace the starter

Rockhead is so bad at managing pitchers, I actually miss Gardy.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 6:57:09 PM

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The idea is trying to figure out how to raise the popularity of the game.

Faster games is not it. Ever

The more I follow, the less I like it. Agree with Matt, it's hurry up and get ready for a pitch, hurry up again.

Gonna be a lot of low scoring boredom. That will make things worse.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 6:58:22 PM

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: MDK

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

Lopez was cruising. Struck out the side in the 7th, so our genius manager goes to the pen and watches them give up 4 runs in 1 inning...

He had thrown 88 pitches.
His arm was barely attached to his shoulder.
He had faced the top 5 hitters 3.
.THREE times.
Rocco's analytics cookbook says replace the starter

Rockhead is so bad at managing pitchers, I actually miss Gardy.

Can't
Fix
Stupid

Or the sheep that rallied to support him. It was another idiot manager move.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 6:59:25 PM

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How long BSN is in business remains to be seen.

Missed a payment to the Twins

Streaming I'm told is sporadic

Another excellent selling point.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/5/2023 8:33:57 PM

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ORIGINAL: Mister Ed

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: MDK

quote:

ORIGINAL: David Levine

Lopez was cruising. Struck out the side in the 7th, so our genius manager goes to the pen and watches them give up 4 runs in 1 inning...

He had thrown 88 pitches.
His arm was barely attached to his shoulder.
He had faced the top 5 hitters 3.
.THREE times.
Rocco's analytics cookbook says replace the starter

Rockhead is so bad at managing pitchers, I actually miss Gardy.

Can't
Fix
Stupid

Or the sheep that rallied to support him. It was another idiot manager move.

Gardy would at least let a veteran starter at hit the 100 pitch mark before a premature hook. Rockhead over analyzes things, just as Miles broke it down. Lopez was dealing. As David pointed out, he struck out the side in his last inning and had only thrown 88 pitches. Here comes the hook.

< Message edited by TJSweens -- 4/6/2023 8:10:28 AM >

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/6/2023 7:23:19 AM

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ORIGINAL: Brad H

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ORIGINAL: Mister Ed

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ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

Amazingly brisk game. Thanks to pitch clock and good pitching.

Too fast for me

Clock is ok, maybe a touch longer.

Hurry up and be done in 2 1/2 hours is not going to draw more people to games.

Hate it!

Now that you have just two hours of entertainment at a game, they have raised the prices of food to make up for the loss of revenue because of shorter games.

More money out of your pocket for less entertainment. And somehow they think this is going to equate to better fan support? Good luck with that.

It's bad enough that they have thrown out 120+ years of history with ridiculous rule changes. As a fan the original game of baseball, I'm offended and turned off by the league leadership.

Starting with a guy at second base in extra innings? It's just silly.

Not being able to align your defense how you want to? Beyond silly.

Last season the average attendance in baseball was around 26,500 per-game. 10 years earlier it was 30,800.

Last weekend in Kansas City, the second game of the series was on a Saturday. It was the first Saturday game of the season in Kansas City. 16,633 in attendance. Sunday's game, played in 72-degree weather.....14,589 in attendance. Baseball purists are not going to watch this garbage.

Problems I see:
1) Tanking teams like "KC Royals" is the problem---you won't see that in a St. Louis game. The baseball purists in St. Louis don't mind 36,000 but attendance is always worse before school is out (also). Twins attendance sank last year after they couldn't win a game in September.
2) Cold weather teams should start on the road for the majority of their first 2 weeks.
3) Prices on beer and food were high before the changes.
4) Covid affected attendance also.
5) Everyone hates the runner at 2nd but it all but eliminates the 15-22 inning games.

another problem is the uneven field that is in play.

New York Yankees, Mets, Dodgers can spend spend spend. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati etc etc can't hope to keep up and still make a profit. When you start every year with the assumption that all or most of the Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers are automatically in the playoffs...you have a problem.

You will inheriantly start losing fans int he smaller market as they start to feel like there is NO hope for their team to reach the promised land.

BING!

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/6/2023 9:13:43 AM

Karl Juhnke

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Why would I want to make a 4 hour round trip drive to watch 2 hours of baseball? Sure, as an outlier or unusual circumstance and one-time novelty, that's cool. I remember being at game at the Metrodome with Buehrle vs Silva and it was like a hour and 50 minutes. It was memorable. I don't want every game to be like that. It's not worth my time or effort driving there for a short game. In a way it's also not worth my time or effort to turn it on the radio or watch it on TV either. I'm here to invest my time and interest into a game. There's not even time to comprehend what's going on. There's no feel. Tempo does not equal feel. It becomes monotony in fast-motion, and that doesn't work for me as a baseball fan.

I heard that on the radio.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/6/2023 9:20:17 AM

Karl Juhnke

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How long BSN is in business remains to be seen.

Missed a payment to the Twins

Streaming I'm told is sporadic

Another excellent selling point.

Can no longer stream Twins games direct with Bally’s standalone subscription. You have to be a DirectTV subscriber.

Good thing I paid for a year in advance to get a discount.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/6/2023 9:24:26 AM 1 votes

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I like the pitch clock. I’ll take 2.5 hour games. Every game I’ve been to in recent history starts to feel like a marathon after 3 hours. And they all did go over 3 hours. I pay to watch baseball, not a batter adjusting his gloves after every pitch or a pitcher pacing around rubbing down baseballs and making sure his jersey and jewelry are on straight. Just throw the ball.

< Message edited by Karl Juhnke -- 4/6/2023 9:26:41 AM >

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/6/2023 9:25:14 AM

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Edit: oops duplicate

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/6/2023 9:58:34 AM

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ORIGINAL: bstinger

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ORIGINAL: Trekgeekscott

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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

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ORIGINAL: Brad H

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ORIGINAL: Mister Ed

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ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

Amazingly brisk game. Thanks to pitch clock and good pitching.

Too fast for me

Clock is ok, maybe a touch longer.

Hurry up and be done in 2 1/2 hours is not going to draw more people to games.

Hate it!

Now that you have just two hours of entertainment at a game, they have raised the prices of food to make up for the loss of revenue because of shorter games.

More money out of your pocket for less entertainment. And somehow they think this is going to equate to better fan support? Good luck with that.

It's bad enough that they have thrown out 120+ years of history with ridiculous rule changes. As a fan the original game of baseball, I'm offended and turned off by the league leadership.

Starting with a guy at second base in extra innings? It's just silly.

Not being able to align your defense how you want to? Beyond silly.

Last season the average attendance in baseball was around 26,500 per-game. 10 years earlier it was 30,800.

Last weekend in Kansas City, the second game of the series was on a Saturday. It was the first Saturday game of the season in Kansas City. 16,633 in attendance. Sunday's game, played in 72-degree weather.....14,589 in attendance. Baseball purists are not going to watch this garbage.

Problems I see:
1) Tanking teams like "KC Royals" is the problem---you won't see that in a St. Louis game. The baseball purists in St. Louis don't mind 36,000 but attendance is always worse before school is out (also). Twins attendance sank last year after they couldn't win a game in September.
2) Cold weather teams should start on the road for the majority of their first 2 weeks.
3) Prices on beer and food were high before the changes.
4) Covid affected attendance also.
5) Everyone hates the runner at 2nd but it all but eliminates the 15-22 inning games.

another problem is the uneven field that is in play.

New York Yankees, Mets, Dodgers can spend spend spend. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati etc etc can't hope to keep up and still make a profit. When you start every year with the assumption that all or most of the Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers are automatically in the playoffs...you have a problem.

You will inheriantly start losing fans int he smaller market as they start to feel like there is NO hope for their team to reach the promised land.

BING!

I look on this and have to disagree:
https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/

I see more big payrolls and TB, Cleveland, Milwaukee seem to get it done in the bottom 10 of payrolls.

I see Oakland as barely trying but they are supposed to get a new stadium.....there are just some horrible FO out there also.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 4/6/2023 9:58:41 AM

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I like the pitch clock. I’ll take 2.5 hour games. Every game I’ve been to in recent history starts to feel like a marathon after 3 hours. And they all did go over 3 hours. I pay to watch baseball, not a batter adjusting his gloves after every pitch or a pitcher pacing around rubbing down baseballs and making sure his jersey and jewelry are on straight. Just throw the ball.

Bingo

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