MLB

It’s the one big problem that never gets solved with baseball: The games are too damn long. Everyone wants MLB to speed up its games, but it never does, and in the meantime, the games are getting longer.

Baseball’s regular season schedule has been a source of trouble since expanding to 30 teams in 1998. With the Houston Astros moving over the American League, MLB has prudently accepted having at least one interleague series taking place…

This year’s MLB All-Star Game is scheduled for Tuesday, July 15th at Target Field in Minneapolis.

That sentence contains one of the several things that are wrong with the Mid-Summer Classic. TV ratings for the…