Speeding Up Baseball Games: Here's Why It's a Myth

All this talk about having to speed up the game of baseball over the past few years is a bunch of nonsense. Basketball was losing viewership because the quality of the product on the court had significantly dropped. The NFL is crying about losing ratings, too, unable to see the obvious flaws in their game (two-and-a-half-hours of beer and truck commercials to 30 minutes of football play. As a fan of all these sports, I contest that a three-hour baseball game isn't the problem with baseball, just like it's not the problem with the NFL, NBA or NHL... it may be the problem with NASCAR, but that's beside the point. Baseball isn't too slow, and here's why.

Tom Lawless was a career .207 batter with two home runs in his career... then he jacked this shot in the World Series in 1987 against the Twins. Now, he's a legend for having the greatest bat flip in the history of baseball.

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