C’est un mot francais, et donc, on met un extra l la-dedans.

C’est tout.

If they want to speed up games, then don’t allow hitters to call time-out. Assign a certain amount of time before the pitcher is allowed to pitch (to allow signals). After that time is up, give the pitchers a time limit before they have to pitch (it already exists). If they don’t make a move (pitch, or a move to first base etc.) call a ball. If hitter’s can’t call time out, they will keep paying attention, which will eliminate injury risk.

I agree with the goal. I hate watching Nomar readjust his gloves. It’s infuriating as a fan.

If you allow a quick pitch while a hitter has called time and puts his left foot out of the batter’s box, you’re going to get a 5 minute tirade from an opposing manager. Which if anything slowed the 2 hr 50 min game up

This league’s attempt at speeding up is a joke. If the league really feels the game is too slow like most people who don’t watch baseball regularly in the first place commonly complain, the real way to cut time down is between innings and pitching changes. That would mean having some innings in which pitchers warm up by the batting cages in the clubhouse or taking up Bill James’ idea of only allowing mid-inning pitching changes after and only after the pitcher has recorded an out to attempt to limit pitching changes in the first place.

But that would cut down on ad revenue which no sane business would do, so let’s pretend like we’re trying. Tell managers to jog instead of walk when making a pitching change and have unenforced time limits between pitches.

Not that the Twins were going to win that game. The way Mota was throwing he was probably going to strike Harris out anyways, but these speed up suggestions are a laughable and insulting joke.

MLB keeps setting attendance records, despite batters unvelcroing and velcroing their batting gloves at rates that alarmist reptiles feared during the Mesozoic era.

So what’s the problem, Bud?

...how do we all correct our misspelled headlines. This one originally read “Speed up folies” which I guess might have been correct for the French-language posters here.