What’s your opinion on the Catcher wearing earpiece?

The problem is that deliberately playing slow is a century old tactic in baseball. Same as golf. All these panels and rules to speed up play, when half the participants don't wont to play faster and in fact slow down on purpose.

It's certainly different. Bianco has always called the pitches, and it seems to have sped things up a bit in getting the calls in. So, I'm liking it so far. I'm just waiting for the first time some team decides to start intercepting the signals.

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If it takes the batter longer than the throw back to the pitcher, the catch signalling the call + pitcher getting set, it is the batter's fault

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No doubt. Slow playing in order to throw off an opponents rhythm is an old tactic

College pitchers and catchers don't call their own game?

Nothing will disguise the fact that it’s baseball, slow and boring IS the game. I enjoyed playing it, but it’s always bored me to tears watching it. Shaving some minutes off the game won’t change that.

Here’s to it falling further down the list of most watched sports in America, and soccer taking over in the next several decades.