If there’s anything good about Major League Baseball’s new rules in 2023, we now have MLB teams are leveling out concession sales by extending alcohol purchases into the eighth inning of ball games. 

Through the first 3-4 weeks of the 2023 season, baseball games are now being played, on average, in two hours and forty minutes. Last season, they were taking about three hours to complete. 

It’s a significant change to the game and now MLB teams are switching up stadium concessions. 

MLB Teams extend concession sales

The eighth inning is definitely a good start but you would have to think that it will be only a matter of time before they treat concessions at baseball games (and other sporting events) just like regular bars and restaurants where there’s really no cutoff to order an alcoholic beverage. 

Listen, I know the conversation around speeding up baseball games jumped the shark after Opening Weekend but concession sales is just the first off-field thing that will likely change when considering the faster game times. 

I’m not even sure why they changed it in the first place. I guess they were trying to speed up games for people watching on television, but the ballpark experience and being able to waste 3-4 hours on a weekday night drinking at Citizens Bank Park was amazing. 

Now you’re basically in and out in 2.5 hours. Bummer. 

At least we can drink into the eighth though, right? 

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