Saturday, February 21, 2015
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How do the more serious baseball fans feel about MLB's pace-of-play rule changes? I don't watch a ton of baseball as the Tigers are never on here, but when I do I almost always watch something else at the same time because of the pace of the game. I've found I can pretty easily follow a movie and a game at the same time because of all the down time. I don't see any real drawbacks to the changes and it might get me to watch slightly more.
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Didn't you once do a post about the actual amount of game time in an average game. Wasn't it something like 17 minutes? I've got more to post on this later, but wanted to drop a quicky.
Yeah, from the WSJ, right here: http://casscitymonkies.blogspot.com/2013/07/play-ball.html
They calculated 17 min and 58 secs.
Thanks. I actually was able to find it last night.
I just don't see how you police some of those plans. Who is going to be watching all 400 pitches in a game for when batters do not keep one foot in the batters box between pitches? If they have a 5 pitch at-bat and break the rules on 2 pitches, do they get fined twice in that one at-bat?
I have always wondered what the time was between innings. In high school, it's supposed to be 1 minute or 5 pitches. I understand HS games are not selling advertisements, but 2:45 for Nationally televised games seems a little ridiculous.
I've also been bothered by the replay "tricks" that managers use. But I don't blame them. They are playing a game with the umps where they waste time arguing/discussing a play with the umps and then wait for their clubhouse guy to give them the signal that they think the play is reviewable or not. That would save a little time if they could nip that in the bud with more consistency.
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