used to enjoy the contest of pacing between batter and pitcher. baseball is a lot less relaxing now with that fucking clock ticking down in the corner of the screen. if you must have a clock at least stop fucking showing it on the overlay graphics MLB
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Now this is a baseball crank take!
Only thing I'd change about the pitch clock is turning it off in the 9th + any extras, maybe lengthening the time between half innings slightly, and making it a teeny bit longer in the postseason.
Unfortunately this would just mean longer tv and radio ads lmao. I will say I can definitely agree about the 9th inning or any further, maybe add a "within 4 or 5 runs" clause. Also I'd go so far as to say they should bump it to :20 with bases empty and :30 with any runners on in the playoffs. It's just weird because compared to a 162 game regular season, even though only the best teams make the playoffs they're still somewhat of a crap-shoot. Just look at the Phillies last year, they knocked off Atlanta in 4 games in the NLDS last year when Atlanta finished 14 games ahead of them in the National League East Division lol. I think it'd be good to minimize potential greater-stakes cluster-fuckery in the playoffs with a much more lenient pitch clock.