The Ringer had a Hottest Take last week that involved 3-inning games. Fennessey suggested it somewhat confusingly for the playoffs, when in my opinion it's not the playoffs that need fixing.
But it did give me an idea.
What if for the regular season, instead of going to see one 9 inning game... you got to see a doubleheader of 3-inning games. So you're still playing 162 a year. But only playing one-third of the innings, and you only need half the days, and the TV window is two-thirds of the time.
Sean's point of late-inning/extra-inning situations being more dramatic is correct. It would definitely speed up the game, make it more accessible to younger audiences / TV windows.
Owners would lose half their ticket gates as each fan's ticket would be for two games. And baseball is all about tradition, so they'd never go for it in a million years. But hey, more perfect games.
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