Candy is correct that the seasons are longer. Colleges have add more games and extended playoffs. March Madness now extends to April.
Football has added more games and extended playoffs. The other pro sports have the same number of games but have extended playoffs. Endless commercials have made the games longer.
Originally posted by: tom
Candy is correct that the seasons are longer. Colleges have add more games and extended playoffs. March Madness now extends to April.
Football has added more games and extended playoffs. The other pro sports have the same number of games but have extended playoffs. Endless commercials have made the games longer.
Gotta pay those outrageous player contracts - it will only get worse.
Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
In the old days, baseball started up in the fall, except for spring training. Is it my imagination, or have all sports begun to play year around? Does hell with my TV-watching plans. I hate cable now, gonna call and cancel today (maybe...they've got me in some ways...in my old age I have to have it on to go to sleep...yikes!)
No, the regular seasons for major league baseball, football, basketball, and hockey ball have pretty much always been the same length and the number of games almost the same. But in each sport, there is more preseason training and with more teams in the mix, the playoffs take longer. So given that cable teevee pretty much always has to scramble to air content that won't make people throw up (and they fail, usually), those extra games are ubiquitous these days.
My guess as to the relative constancy of the season lengths is that all of the leagues have floated the idea of expanding their schedules but have been strongly opposed by the others. As it is, we associate baseball with summer, football with fall, hockey with winter, and basketball with spring.
Well said, Tom and Kevin. The major sports leagues and college football this past fall, have added more teams to the post season, lengthening it to have more televised games for increased revenue from ticket sales and advertising dollars.
Originally posted by: Edso
Well said, Tom and Kevin. The major sports leagues and college football this past fall, have added more teams to the post season, lengthening it to have more televised games for increased revenue from ticket sales and advertising dollars.
You...you mean...it's all about MONEY??? Say it ain't so, Edso!
Which just led me to a horrible thought. What if Trump ever got involved in major league baseball?? The umpires would be replaced by Trumpires. They'd never call a strike on a Mighty MAGA batter. The score would always be 35-0. And wearing those stupid red baseball caps would be mandatory for all spectators.
Gaah!!
I dont follow NBA/NHL/MLB much until the playoffs. College basketball too.
The pro sports have so many regular season games that any one of them is not significant. Why spend money and waste 3 hours of your life watching one of them?
I had a blast watching the hometown Pacers go to the NBA finals this year. But I didnt watch a single regular season game.
