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Anyone want to talk about pace of play changes?

i'd love to but it will probably take way too long..kinda like a baseball game these days

I'm all about the journey, not necessarily the destination. Kinda like a baseball game.

lets set a time in the coming weeks and hammer through this..invite pete and we'll go through a bottle of brown online

I really have nothing to say about it except that I like watching what everyone is doing on the field between pitches. I don't know that I'd have anything more to add, really.

you know when the catcher calls a quick time out to go talk to the pitcher? you'd be surprised to know that the conversation between them rarely has anything to about the game

That doesn't surprise me at all. I remember a line in the Ken Burns doc (I think they were talking about Earl Weaver) when a pitcher said sometimes they'd just point at people in the crowd.

"See that girl in the red dress?"
"Yeah, skip?"
"Okay. Just wanted to know if you saw her or not. Now go pitch."

thats pretty much true..sometimes they remind each other to exchange recipes

Wait. Why don't they just exchange them right then and there?

I have no problem with the current pace of play, but I fully understand why it's important for the league to keep things moving at a reasonable rate.

Fun fact: over the course of a season, assuming 32 starts and 100 pitches per start, the difference between the pitcher with the slowest pace and the pitcher with the quickest pace amounts to a little over seven extra hours spend standing around on the mound doing nothing.

Here I am talking about pace of play and integrity of the great game of baseball when my team's stadium has a train running up and down the left field concourse (which I love) and these god awful Chick-Fil-A graphics running down what are known as "fowl" poles. Everyone's a hypocrite, eh?