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Here's your host, Duane Calendar.

Welcome to the show everyone.

Baseball season is right around the corner so let's talk about what I expect to happen in the upcoming year and to do that we got to talk about the rule changes because for those of you who have not been following

baseball and to be perfectly honest baseball hasn't really given you much to want to follow if we're being at all honest with ourselves

from a marketing standpoint. Baseball has tried to do a number of rule changes to get casual

fans interested in the game again. And among them is the pitch clock.

So for those of you who do not know, moving forward,

MLB has implemented a pitch clock wherein the starting pitcher has to deliver a ball to the plate within 15 seconds

Otherwise they are automatically charged with a ball on the mount.

Now there's a runner-on-base,

they have 20 seconds to deliver the ball to the plate.

Obviously. to deliver the ball to the plate. Obviously this is a change for certain guys who like to get into a set routine and stare down hitters.

All that's gone.

So the Nolan Ryan approach you've got a

and even then no one was a fast worker. Like I know sometimes no one would

stare dudes down and Bob Gives us down but those guys actually work fast. I'm

actually in favor of this. I know people were complaining about the pitch clock

but truth be told, pitch clock definitely need to be implemented a years ago,

because we were getting way too long in terms of played out at bats because to trip be told batteries were abusing this too where

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