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04-18-2008, 07:19 AM
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The 22 Inning Game
ESPN - Rockies vs. Padres - Recap - April 17, 2008
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Originally Posted by ESPN.com
Rockies top Padres 2-1 in 22-inning marathon
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Let's play 22!
Colorado and San Diego did just that Thursday night and into Friday morning, slogging through a 22-inning game that was the longest in the majors in nearly 15 years.
The Rockies finally won 2-1, with Troy Tulowitzki's two-out RBI double bringing in Willy Taveras with an unearned run in nearly empty Petco Park. A game that lasted 6 hours, 16 minutes was decided by an unearned run.
Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy threw the game's first pitch at 7:05 p.m. The game didn't end until 1:21 a.m., when Padres pitcher Glendon Rusch took a called third strike. Colorado's Yorvit Torrealba, who caught all 22 innings, wearily pumped a fist in celebration.
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04-18-2008, 07:54 AM
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holy shit is the only thing i could think of this morning when i saw that.
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04-18-2008, 08:15 AM
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this is a baseball game that not even i could have slept through...granted 17-18 innings maybe but at a certain point a man only needs so much sleep...
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04-18-2008, 10:54 AM
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This is why ballparks shouldn't cut off beer sales in the 7th inning.
Nobody has the fortitude to drink a couple of beers through 6 innings of a game, then sit there with nothing to eat or drink through the extra innings after all the concessions close. It doesn't matter what teams are playing or how suspenseful the extra innings are, the fans are going to start leaving around the 12th or 13th.
More evidence of how MLB is one of the worst run professional sports leagues. $8.00-$12.00 for one damn beer. With those prices people are going to regulate themselves, so there isn't any need to cut off everyone. Nobody is going to the ballpark and dropping $240.00 to drink a case of Budweiser.
If a fraction, say 1/10th, of the attendance at a major league park for an evening game during the week buys one beer every 3 or 4 innings, that could be 10,000 or more bottles the stadium isn't selling. It's just stupid: Leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table and encouraging your fans to leave because you cut them off after two hours.
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04-18-2008, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Dryden
This is why ballparks shouldn't cut off beer sales in the 7th inning.
Nobody has the fortitude to drink a couple of beers through 6 innings of a game, then sit there with nothing to eat or drink through the extra innings after all the concessions close. It doesn't matter what teams are playing or how suspenseful the extra innings are, the fans are going to start leaving around the 12th or 13th.
More evidence of how MLB is one of the worst run professional sports leagues. $8.00-$12.00 for one damn beer. With those prices people are going to regulate themselves, so there isn't any need to cut off everyone. Nobody is going to the ballpark and dropping $240.00 to drink a case of Budweiser.
If a fraction, say 1/10th, of the attendance at a major league park for an evening game during the week buys one beer every 3 or 4 innings, that could be 10,000 or more bottles the stadium isn't selling. It's just stupid: Leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table and encouraging your fans to leave because you cut them off after two hours.
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actually i was at the air canada center for a hockey game this year where 1k was dropped by 4 people on beer. i had about $100 bucks worth...
that being said the reason they put in the time limits is limit those who are the same people who cause a stink at the bar. they want to keep some sort of sembelence to a family atmosphere...
i think pretty much every profesional sport has a time in the game (before its over) when they stop sales... |
04-18-2008, 11:17 AM
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This is why ballparks shouldn't cut off beer sales in the 7th inning.
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Precisely why I sneak in booze. 
Well, maybe not precisely since the wifey usually drains the flask before the stretch... 
Oh, and Go Rockies! 
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04-18-2008, 11:26 AM
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Well, maybe not precisely since the wifey usually drains the flask before the stretch... |
Hopefully not in the last nine months. 
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04-18-2008, 11:39 AM
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