[Amazin69]

Good for y'all. I can zoom through an entire 4-5 minute ad-break with a few taps in a grand total of 13 seconds (never hearing a word from the good scam artists at Pfizer), and I don't have to get out of my chair every 3 outs to avoid the ads. I go to refrigerator/the bathroom/feed the cat/whatever whenever I want, for however long I want. (Well, 90 minutes' worth of pause time, anyhow.)

Heck, if the Kings are playing like crap (remember, I'm not watching Manfred-ball these days), I can go into my video library and cue up my favorite episodes of Star Trek or Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Law & Order and take a break before I go back to the game, exactly where I left it.

To quote Ultron (because I have most of my favorite MCU flicks in there, too), "There are no strings on me." Enjoy running to the fridge to dodge the latest promo for whatever idiocy is on Bravo. I'll just sit and pet my cat, tyvm.

(As for the whole pace-of-play issue, it's been noted that the players policed themselves once the umps got on their ass…which the umps have had Taylor Swift's entire life to do, since there are no "new rules" about pace, just better enforcement. So forgive me if I don't claim this is some brilliant innovation and encourage Manfred to keep battering the game into an unrecognizable mess.

Hey, why don't we bring back 1887 rules? 3 balls, 2 strikes, like they do in some softball leagues. Bound to speed things up, right? [/eyeroll])