what i dont get

[Dubbya]

about the perfect game....

is that a sport with as many scandals as its had in the past few year, you would think selig would have the balls to stand up and do the right thing. instead he plays the "letter of the law" card, and does nothing. I feel bad for galarraga and even more so for joyce... selig had the opportunity to step up and do something, but instead he does what he usually does, nothing
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Major ... -Star_Game ). Another solid move. yet one day bonds, mcgwire, and palmeiro will be in the hall of fame, all under seligs watch.

What has Selig ever done to suggest he would know "the right thing" about anything?
He has taken a poorly-run sport and made it worse.

[Longtime]

expony 18: No, I wouldn't mind taking an extra five minutes to get a call right in a football game. I DO mind a football game taking more than three hours because of all the "media" timeouts - even when a game isn't being televised. Or outdated clock rules in a passing era.

Now that 3:20 is the norm for football, watch it stretch to 3:30, then 3:40 - where does it stop?

People put up with long college games because it's one game a week. For diehards, there are usually only six, maybe seven, home games all year. Not 81 home games out of 162 as in baseball.

Still, it's ridiculous to see college football games drag on and on, especially in scorching weather. You're eventually going to reach a point of diminishing returns. People aren't going to invest their time in a college football game because they don't have four hours to sit in the baking sun...or freeze their bollocks off.

Some college coaches think fans want four-hour games, because if they drive across the state to see State U play, they want to get their money's worth. Ridiculous. Are you telling me you can't pack the same entertainment value into three hours? The people who drove across the state to see a game also have to drive home.

[PonyTales]

I'd like to see football games go four hours, or five, or six, or a whole weekend.
I watch football all weekend, anyway — might as well all be SMU football.

[expony18]

expony 18: No, I wouldn't mind taking an extra five minutes to get a call right in a football game. I DO mind a football game taking more than three hours because of all the "media" timeouts - even when a game isn't being televised. Or outdated clock rules in a passing era.

Now that 3:20 is the norm for football, watch it stretch to 3:30, then 3:40 - where does it stop?

People put up with long college games because it's one game a week. For diehards, there are usually only six, maybe seven, home games all year. Not 81 home games out of 162 as in baseball.

The Yankees and Red Sox were the game’s top slowpokes last season. The Yankees averaged three hours, eight minutes a game, and the Red Sox 3:04. Both were longer than the 30-team average of 2:52, according to Stats LLC, a sports data company from Northbrook, Illinois.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-0 ... aster.html

They took advantage of Boston starter Daisuke Matsuzaka's wildness and dealt the Red Sox a 4-3 loss on Thursday night as Fenway's 576th consecutive sellout crowd, 37,940, watched.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd ... p&c_id=mlb

[ponyboy]

Hey, maybe someday we could get the liberal, activist wing of the judiciary to show the same level of restraint as Selig.