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Games Drag On, Timelessness Becomes Less Than Sacred By Tyler Kepner

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Over the years, new rules and experiments have been brought forth to the world of baseball. After reading the article from the New York Times posted on January 17, 2015, “As Baseball Games Drag On, Timelessness Becomes Less Than Sacred” written by Tyler Kepner, an experiment will soon be taking place to speed up the pace of baseball games, The pitching clock. This will begin next season where every minor league team will begin using a pitching clock that will include a countdown. The pitchers will be required to deliver a pitch within a set amount of time, and if failure to do so they will receive a ball. One of the main ideas of this article is time. Time that the pitchers have and time that makes baseball what it is today. By bring the pitching …show more content…

My dad would pick me up from school, sometimes early, and we would ride the bart station 45 minutes to the Ballpark. After my first visit, I fell in love with the game of baseball. I was drawn to the game for those defining characteristics that set baseball apart. The individuality, constant strategies, the history, but most of all, its timelessness. Living in a world that is so worried about time and constant change, baseball has been the one thing I have felt completely drawn too. My reponse to the pitching clock would be that we do not need it. Clocks are for other sports, Baseballs timelessness is what makes it so appealing. I picked this article because baseball has a huge spot in my heart. I have been a San Francisco Giants fan since the day I stepped foot on Pac Bell Grounds. On June 13, 2012 I watched the Giants starting pitcher Matt Cain throw a perfect game. I watched this game on television but I can still remember the silence during the last at bat against Houston Astros Jason Castro. Every second, everything was hanging onto that very last pitch. My heart was pounding in my head and before I knew Matt Cain threw his first perfect game. That is exactly what I love about baseball. The intensity. When it comes down to that final strike that’s the essence of it all. There is no rush to it and would moment like this one still be the same if the pitching clock was

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