With all the technology we have, it seems like it could be possible. Maybe a good writer would be willing to try this or someone who works at ESPN. In the AL, there are normally, at most, 7 games in a day. If you do alot of fast forwarding, you might be able to watch each game in an hour. So it would be like a full time job. You could blog abot it every day. Maybe even turn it into a book.
No one has ever done this before. A good writer might be able to tell a good story or be able to bring something new to baseball analysis. It could drive someone crazy, too. Then there are the inter-league games. If you were doing the AL, you would have to watch 14 games per day. I don't think I would be willing to try it and even if I could take a leave of absense from my teaching job, it would be tough.
When it comes to awards and all-star voting, in a way, no one is really qualified to vote, since no one sees every game. But maybe now it would be different. Maybe several writers could do this and then it would be fun to hear all their different viewpoints.
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I think you'd have to have someone edit the games beforehand and put them on a DVD or something like that. That way you get all the game action and nothing else. No fast forwarding. Any fast forwarding would almost certainly require some additional rewinding to get back to the point you need. Surely someone could hire such a person to edit the games. More than one person probably. At that point I think it would be fairly easy to do. Time consuming of course, but if you're dedicated and lazy, you could sit back and watch games for 8 to 10 hours per day.
That might work better. I think I have watched games in an hour or less fast forwarding, usually between pitches. That could get hard on your thumb. Now if only every pitcher worked as fast as Mark Buehrle.
That's a good point, Cy. Not only would your thumb get sore, but your hand would, and maybe even your arm depending on whether or not you have a direct view to the receiver or not. We've probably all spent entirely too much time playing video games over the years and I remember in college my hand and thumb getting very sore from it.
It was mentioned in a comment on The Book Blog that Bloomberg is providing teams with this type of content. It's not available to the public, but it wouldn't surprise me if a team has hired someone to plot as much date from every game possible.
Interesting that something like this might already be going on. Maybe it is like some of the sabermetricians who got jobs with teams and we never hear from them again.
I've thought about this a few times too. There's 2430 games scheduled, plus potentially 49 more post-season games and the All-Star game. If hte average game is 3 hours that 7440 hours out of the 8760 in most years (8784 in a leap year) So it's possible without sleep. If we take out the commercial breaks between innings and pitching changes that should clear about 1800 hours. So that's 5640 hours, about 15 and a half hours per day. Yeah, if the between action could be filtered, it would be possible. In another generation we should have software that automates that speeding-up process.
Thanks for dropping by. Sometimes I can watch a game in an hour or less if I do alot of fastforwarding. But I was only think about doing one league, not both. If the AL has 7 games a day, it would take 7 hours
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