If two teams play a classic playoff game on the West Coast and no one can stay awake to watch it, does it make a sound? Or better yet, if no one under the age of 12 can stay up to watch postseason baseball, will we have anything to watch in 20 years? The Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies squared off in a NLCS game 4 for the ages late Monday night and into Tuesday morning. The game, which lasted almost four hours, ended after midnight on the east coast. Most Philadelphians probably stayed up to watch it, but did the casual fan make the effort? There two problems at play here. One, playoff games take way too long. The average length of game for the two Championship Series’ is 3 hours and 35 minutes, being paced by the 5 hour an... (view full text)