
Can Baseball Keep Up With Us?
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Theo Epstein and the Speed of Baseball
When you're actually watching a game there is urgency. Urgency is not a word that anyone would ever associate with baseball in recent years. Baseball has slowed down and finally they just sort of decided to all at once just get very tough and say okay there is now a clock in baseball. Lo and behold it has already shaved 25 maybe 30 minutes off a game in the first couple of months in this season. The main architect of speeding baseball up? There are a few of them but probably the best known is a guy named Theo Epstein who is this legendary figure in baseball.
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