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With one of the World Series games having lasted 7 hours 20 minutes, how do you feel about the average length of a professional baseball
game being 3 hours? Do you feel like the length of the game could be shortened without compromising the integrity of the game?

Name: Kyla Riopelle Name: Brendana Bedard
Grade: 7 Grade: 7
School: St. Andrew Catholic School
Answer School: St. Andrew Catholic School
Are you a true baseball fan? I have been a proud Toronto Answer
Blue Jays fan since 2014. MLB games should not be Are you kidding me? A seven hour and 20 minute
shortened. Baseball players get paid BIG money to play, baseball game is crazy. They need to find a way to keep
so they should play the game correctly, no matter how MLB games at a reasonable length. Come on! To shorten
long it takes. the length of a game they should limit the amount of time
When fans purchase tickets, they risk having to stay between pitches. Coaches seem to switch pitchers about
longer if the game goes into extra innings. Fans can leave every five minutes. They should have batters go right after
the game whenever they want. They’re not in prison. Yes, it each other. And, when switching from batting to fielding,
may be annoying when there are many delays throughout the
players should move faster, instead of dillydallying. I can see
game, but those breaks give the teams opportunities to discuss
why the longer the game, the fewer fans there are. People have
plays, or make pitching changes. Seven hours and twenty minutes is a long lives to go to!
time, but baseball is baseball and that can happen. This year’s 7 hour game was part of the If you’re watching the game on TV, and need a break, then you can just record it and
World Series, so they had to determine a winner, no matter the length.
Attending a baseball game with family and friends is a great bonding experience; for me watch when you want to. However at a live World Series game, it’s different because
it was with my grandparents. Although that game lasted ten innings, I enjoyed having the you are there for the whole game. The seven hour game was way too long. People were
extra bonding time with my grandparents, and to prove that I’m a real fan by staying to probably falling asleep. Players were probably falling asleep too. It’s infuriating that
watch. My first Blue Jays’ game was the best experience ever and I sure wouldn’t have officials and team owners have let games become so long! Fans are complaining about
wanted to shorten it! the length of a baseball game and it’s time to do something about it!

Name: Daisy Primeau Name: Madix Morgan
Grade: 7 Grade: 7

School: St. Andrew Catholic School School: St. Andrew Catholic School
Answer Answer
Is a 7 hour and 20 minute professional MLB game too In my opinion, the world’s classic game,
long? In my opinion it isn’t too long. If you bought which has been in existence since 1869,
a ticket, or wanted to watch the game at home, you
should know that the game could last longer than should not be altered. Only five times in
expected. It’s your choice if you don’t stay or watch history has a game run over seven hours. If
the rest of the game. the game was shortened the fans would not get
The game can’t really be shortened too much without the same value for the tickets they purchase. A
compromising the integrity of the game. The most you shorter game would mean tickets need to be
could do is make shorter breaks in between innings, or allow fewer
time outs for the coaches. If you shortened the game, it could be over too quickly, kind cheaper!
of boring and not entertaining. It wouldn’t matter as much for the non-professional There are a few things that can be done to shorten the game a little
teams if you put a cap on the length of a game. However, in the MLB, fans love that bit. For example, cutting out some commercial breaks, taking out the
“can the team make a come-back?” factor that the extra innings create. chatting between pitcher and catcher at the mound. But would you
A 7 hour and 20 minute MLB game is rare, so why bother to put a limit on such a really cut out the classic 7th inning stretch? That might be going too
classic game?
far. I say leave the game alone.

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