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Originally Posted by rodgerdavies
Agreed, that was what made me think "this is exactly what I used to spend ages 'watching' that they're getting rid of".
Obviously a small adjustment period whilst players push those rules, but better for watching along.
However, I would like to hear more from people who are lucky enough to go to games and their feelings about it.
When I have been in the US (worked in Florida a bit) I much preferred the stadium experience of college games than the pro sports, because of the quicker pace (watching the Miami Dolphins killing time in the stadium between plays whilst waiting for ad breaks to end sticks with me).
As a Brit, most of my stadium-going is sports that only have a half time break (rugby, football), so I'm not the sort to go fetch concessions between innings or plays or anything, but the new pace means there really isn't any sort of obvious break at any point (like half time is in football/soccer), so intrigued to hear from more regular goers about their MLB experiences.
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Plenty of time still for concessions in Spring Training games between half-innings. MLB has not messed with the time for commercial adverts on radio and TV and in the ballpark. Hypocritical to adopt the pitch clock but still have the delays between half innings IMHO. If MLB cut the time to 90 seconds, or even 60 seconds, that’s 16 or 17 intervals that would be shorter. A painless way to save half an hour over the course of a game. That’s why they have vendors in the stands; although the visit to the loo would be problematical.