Posted on 04/14/2016 12:48:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman attended a Yankees–Blue Jays game on Wednesday night and managed to make it through two entire innings before Googling the inevitable: "How long does a baseball game last?"
The person sitting behind her posted a photo of the moment she realized she'd be stuck at a stadium in Toronto in early April for at least seven more innings. It probably wasn't the worst moment of her life, but I'd bet it came close.
Of course, like all images on the internet, there's always the chance this one has been Photoshopped, but if it lies to us it's only so it can point to a greater truth: that baseball games are too damn long.
I have a little sympathy for her. For the Yankees, that game last night was WAAAAAY too long.
Do you like swarms of things?
Two best picture winners you should see:
The Kings Speech
The Artist
The English Patient was lampooned on Seinfeld: ‘What, did they make it longer?’
Baseball games are the only time I’ve found boredom physically painful.
They’re adding clocks as fast as they can. A nice parting shot by Selig, being run with by Manfred. It’s a travesty, and it isn’t going to bring one more person to the game. “Oh, it’s six minutes shorter on average! Whoo hoo! Buy me season tickets!”
So far, it’s time the batter has to be in the box, and timed mound visits. They are looking at pitch clocks, with any pitcher exceeding being charged with a ball.
What about the people who have been stuck at the theater watching The Neverending Story since 1984?
My son played football and baseball many years ago and one of his teammates was the most talented young man most of us had ever seen. His mom came to all the games for seven straight years, sat on the top row and read books through all of the events, spoke to no one and never looked up. She always made him ride home in the trunk of their Cadillac because she did not want him getting her car dirty. Never understood why she bothered coming.
I know how that one ends!
If you’re a Mariners fan, they last for eternity because YOU’RE IN HELL ALREADY!
“A couple of circular logos in the closeup missing from the longer view.”
Could be a photoshop, or she was scrolling through the responses as the person took the second photo.
At least they have a nice rainbow pride flag to look at at Safeco. The Twins and the Braves fans just have to look at their respective 0-9 and 0-8 records.
Baseball: 7 guys standing around watching 2 guys play catch.
Made him ride in the trunk? No one complained about that?
Before we were married my wife got me to see ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ a Tom Hanks snoozefest.
A couple decades later she talked me into taking my visiting brother in law to see ‘Vanilla Sky’ for a “guys night out.” Its almost impossible to get me into a theater now.
There’s no *Time* in Baseball!
Why would she pick the movie for a guy’s night? And why would you
actually go to the movie she picked, unless she was escorting you at gunpoint.
(With the exception of you having a history of going to see movies a married man
shouldn’t see?)
My husband likes to watch movies of tornados or sharks, or if possible, both.
I watch MLB, but I love AAA games and college.
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