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Originally Posted by Dragon
Apparently the chief ump for the Yankees/Sox series called both teams "emabrassing, a disgrace to baseball" and "pathetic and embarassing. They take too long to play."
Weird way to put it. If baseball really has a problem with times of games they can cut down on some of the stuff - taking forever to step in the box or the mound, trips to the mound, etc...but even after those things the games will still be long because both teams have a ton of patient hitters. No matter who the Yankees play they take forever because of this.
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There are already rules for stepping out and in between pitches, but rarely is that enforced. If the umps started calling the closer high pitches as strikes (expand the K zone) that would cause a faster game as well.