Complaining about the length of a Red Sox-Yankees game remains in vogue in 2011, thanks to a season series of 180 million games, pitchers who take 30 seconds between pitches, and the virtual certainty that both teams will make the playoffs anyway. Even the players are getting annoyed. Mark Teixeira:
Yankees Game Length Is ‘Brutal,’ Says Yankee
↵↵“It’s brutal,” said Teixeira, the Yankees’ first baseman. “I can’t stand playing a nine-inning game in four hours. It’s not baseball. I don’t even know how to describe it.”
↵↵Meanwhile, Wednesday night’s Braves-Nationals game concluded after two hours, 12 minutes. It’s possible to play expedient baseball, and I think the Yankees and Sox could do it if they a) did away with the mandatory filling-out of 10-page waiver forms prior to each at-bat, and b) stopped playing baseball with their legs chained to Oldsmobiles with booted tires.
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