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Every baseball fan on the planet except me wants a fast tempo, but I've never been able to understand why. It's totally opaque to me, why a two-hour movie is better than a three-hour movie. People sit and watch TV for like seven hours in a row. Okay, it's 9:00, time to leave Safeco. What are we doing next?
Bill James once observed that 3-hour ballgames have the same number of pitches, but more dead space. That answer didn't jell with me either. While they are lining up the next pitch, I'm thinking about the game.
Maybe you can 'splain it to me EA. :- ) To me, JASON VARGAS is like watching paint dry, because of the lack of incisiveness of his pitches. Iwakuma is fascinating because he speaks an alien pitch-sequence language.