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Baseball would probably have more game days in a year than the average international cricketer would, counting all levels they are involved in.

The US baseball season seems to make it impossible to watch all your teams games, even for the most dedicated fan.

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> even for the most dedicated fan

I watched 100+ regular season games of the Dodgers last season. It was a lot of baseball. That plus an exhausting World Series meant I had to decompress and avoid sports for a few months.

Think about how the players must have felt!

Meh, I watch (or listen to on radio) a good majority of SF Giants games. Definitely not all the home games, but I can usually watch 2/3 of just about every broadcasted home/away series, so maybe 120 games, give or take 15? That's not unreasonable.

This is a positive to me. Pretty much every day during baseball season, if I feel like watching baseball I have the option. I don't want to watch everyday, but I love being able to watch basically any time I want.

Us Cubs fans had a truly awful decompression in 2016. Don't get me wrong, winning the world series was amazing. But, I wish they did it in less dramatic fashion.

And, to stifle the high, there was an absolute (and ongoing) tragedy less than a week later.

You can watch an average American baseball game in a ‘condensed’ format in under 20 minutes. The condensed format shows key pitches and plays.

The blackout rules don't help either.

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