The View From Wisconsin

One of our local sports talk guys (Doug Russell from WSSP 1250 AM) made a somewhat sarcastic comment on his Facebook page about being "done" with the Brewers after their 2-6 start. The truth is, eight games in the major league baseball season is a blip on the radar compared to the NFL and NBA.

In fact, being the stat geek that I am, I went as far as doing an equivalency table, just so you can tell your friends:

One out in baseball is equivalent to...

• 33.7 seconds in an NHL game (about a quarter of a power play, roughly two to three end-to-end rushes up the ice);
  
• 21.6 seconds in an NBA game (almost the same as the shot clock);
• 6.6 seconds in an NFL game (about the same amount of time as one play).

One full inning of baseball (six outs, each team) is equivalent to...

• 3:22.5 in a hockey game (practically all of a double-minor; also about the amount of time that a team would cycle through their entire lines in a typical game);
  
• 2:09.6 in an NBA game (last two minutes of a game = eternity);
• 39.5 seconds in an NFL game (about the time frame of a three-and-out series).

One nine-inning game of baseball is equivalent to...

• 30:22 in a hockey game (Just over half a game);
  
• 24:17 in an NBA game (about one possession in the second half);
• 5:56 in an NFL game (about the same time as a long, sustained scoring drive in the NFL; for example, Arizona's first drive of the second quarter of the Super Bowl was 5:20 in length).