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Pitchers n catchers and dreams of someplace warm. 

[Photo Credit: Francis Miller via It’s a Long Season]

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1 MSM35   ~  Feb 20, 2015 11:33 am

I usually keep track of the weather here and in Dawson in the Yukon Territory and Clearwater Beach, Florida. Last week Dawson was at minus 51. Today it is at 14 above and we are at 7. Clearwater at 45 is not much better. Play ball?

2 rbj   ~  Feb 20, 2015 11:54 am

I'm up to zero degrees.

3 Chyll Will   ~  Feb 20, 2015 12:01 pm

I'm home, sick in bed.

4 Bronx Boy in NC   ~  Feb 20, 2015 1:54 pm

More news about "pace of the game" changes. I don't have any real problem with staying in the batter's box, etc., but I don't like the overall spirit of it, and I agree with observers who say a pitch clock is coming.

Roger Ebert said no good movie is too long and no bad movie is too short. If you're watching baseball -- an activity that remains voluntary, as far as I know -- don't you think it's a good movie?

When the Yankees and Red Sox meet for meaningful games in August, I'm thrilled to contemplate that we're all still going to be biting our nails three and a half hours later.

And the absence of a clock isn't a detail in baseball. It's part of the essence of the game.

Curmudge-O-Rant powering down.

5 MSM35   ~  Feb 20, 2015 5:51 pm

A long game can be a good game but a short game is always a good game.

6 Chyll Will   ~  Feb 20, 2015 7:38 pm

[5] a lot of the games I watched last season were long enough; they lasted long enough for me to get up and turn the TV off halfway through >;)

7 The Mick536   ~  Feb 23, 2015 8:42 am

I don't have the patience to watch anymore, cannot afford the time effort or money to go to a game and the commercials drive me crazy. So, I read the game and follow it on my computer. Did I mention, I don't pay for ESPN. What am I missing?

8 Chyll Will   ~  Feb 23, 2015 12:55 pm

[7] Half the countries in the eastern hemisphere are "undergoing changes in management" since the end of the World Series >;)

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