PaulThology

A big thanks to the Rays for silencing Red Sox nation this year, and saving us at least 2 hours of our lives, all of that time after midnight EDT.

The average game time of the LDS and LCS not involving the Red Sox this year was 3:06 per 9 innings, the games with the Red Sox 3:38.  Even if you remove the two Red Sox games that went beyond 9 innings, assuming you’re making some kind of argument along the lines of “extra innings always take longer than a regular inning due to the pressure and pitching changes”, their games were 3:28.

The World Series games averaged 3:21.  Given that they were 15 minutes longer than the average prior to that, is it fair to assume that a World Series involving the Red Sox would have approached a 4 hour game time average?  What is this, cricket?

On a side note, “hope” will not change this nation any more than it helped my Cubs this year, at they lost their 9th straight postseason game.  I was in attendance for their only postseason series win in my lifetime, a 3-2 NLDS win over the Braves here in Atlanta in 2003.

Any my apologies to the Rays, for having made them the butt of many a joke over the past decade, and they’ve now progressed farther than the Cubs have in the last 63 years.  But please get that “TB” off your hats.