A recent study has shown that Baseball may in fact be more more action packed than the increasingly more popular sport of Football. The study tracked two Baseball games from this current season and one from 1962. Researchers used stop watches to track stand around time, commercial time, "strategy" time (umps conferring, manager coming out to mound) and action.
The research found that a typical baseball game has about 14 minutes of action! Woo hoo. Not quite as much as a Seinfeld rerun. The two games played this year averaged 40 minutes of commercials (10 for the older game) and 105 minutes of players standing around waiting for the next pitch.
But hold on football fans, before you use this as another excuse to bash Baseball, the same study was conducted for Football.
The Results? 11 minutes of action time, 55 minutes of commercials and 120 of stand around time. Meaning those who argue that not enough happens in Baseball, are technically wrong, as Baseball actually packs in a whopping 3 more minutes of pure action.
So does this study re-affirm Baseball as the national pastime? Of course not. Because that 14 minutes happens 162 times a year, where as 11 minutes of football occurs on a far more manageable 16 game schedule.
So while enjoying this years NFL football and MLB playoffs, take note of how much gameplay you are actually watching.
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