MLB Solution # 2: Fans Pick the Winner
We’ve all been there. After finally plodding through nine innings of back and forth baseball, the game still isn’t over. Extra innings time.
Once in a blue moon, a tenth inning is cute. But every single week, some game goes way longer, ruining the MLB average game time figure. Time to bring that to an end. Luckily, there’s a solution that is both practical AND interactive.
- Let fans vote for the winner of the game.
- I know, right? How has this not been a thing since Season 1 of American Idol?
- The game is still tied after nine innings.
- No more tedious continued play to reasonably determine a winner.
Fans of both teams just text in their choice for who should win, be it based on performance so far or just pure fan love.
The jumbotrons at the stadium could just show the Twitter feed where the votes would be tabulated. Votes would be tabulated over a single, long commercial break packed full of advertising revenue. Once the numbers are in, we have our winner. Easy peasy.
For most games, voting would be closed off to fans in attendance. But for nationally broadcast affairs, the whole world would get to join in the fun. A Red Sox-Yankees tilt might well break the Internet.
If a team can win in regulation, nothing changes. All power to them. If not though…power to the people.