“Heck, these days baseball is trying to figure out how to create more offense because ultimately offense is what gets fans in the stadium.”
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Doing something to prevent 4 hour games would help too.
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I’ve always found the complaints about length of games annoying. Everyone knows what they’re getting into when they go to a baseball game. It could be over in 2.5 hours, it could take 4 hours. Even longer if it goes into extra innings. I don’t think length of games is keeping people away, attendance is still very high. In fact, in the last 40 years attendance has gone way up even as time of game has gone up. If you look at attendance figures in the early 70’s no team was drawing over 1 million fans a season. These days there really aren’t any teams drawing less than 1.5 million. So I’m not sure that length of game is really turning fans off.