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MLB 2022: Playing Ball, But Is Anyone Still Watching?

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Kepler said:
New MLB record holder and fuck whoever says nay.
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Under baseball originalism, isn’t the record still 60? Only Ruth and Judge got to 60 by game 154 and Judge didn’t hit 61 until game 155.
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That's a different record, homeruns per game. The better record is actually homeruns per PA, which is probably held by Ralph Kiner.
 
Last day of the regular season. I believe every game (or almost every game) is at 4:10. Why is that? I'm going to Fenway, well, just because. I was there last night in the miserable raw, cold rain. Saw what was probably Nathan Eovaldi's last appearance in Sox uniform, and Bogaerts' last home run in a Sox uniform (unless he hits one today) and it was a doozy - TOWERING grand slam. The umps called the game in the bottom of the 5th with two out. I was thinking they could just get that last one, but it was a complete game and on that last play it looked like a player slipped on the wet grass so they stopped the game.
 
Which today would have been a great setup had they kept the 163rd game, but nooooooooo, they had to do away with that with the expanded wildcard round.
 
I think it’s more for drama than anything. The common start time came about shortly after the final day of 2011 when the Rays pulled off a giant comeback against New York while the Red Sox were battling the Orioles and the Rays ended up with the wild card.

I don’t think they’ve ever been able to capture that magic again, though. Last year was the closest with like three or four teams battling for the final spot, but if I remember right, while the games were close, there weren’t many lead chances or jockeying positions.

That was the last chance at a game 163 and in one scenario the first and only game 164 would’ve been possible.
 
I think more wildcard teams is not actually helping them generate more interest and drama. There is a point when it's too many, and we are past that.
 
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