Charlie, Rich, Michael, and I discussed baseball rule changes on the latest episode of the Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast. I played the role of curmudgeon, in opposition to most of MLB’s recent innovations.
As I mentioned on the show, I hate the pitch clock less in practice than I hate it in theory. I simply was not as bothered by the pace of play as much as MLB insisted everyone was. Three hours for a baseball game is reasonable to me, and that’s around what most games were before the rule changes. (When pointless replay reviews make the games take longer, nobody complains about that, even though we all know a safe/out call at first base in the third inning really doesn’t matter that much to the outcome of the game.)
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