Passan’ Time: MLB Pitch Clock Debuts + Pablo Says Goodbye

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It’s about time we talk about one of the more interesting changes we’ve seen play out in sports: the introduction of the pitch clock to Major League Baseball. While the concept of a pitch clock is nothing new, its ratification has resulted in one of the biggest rule changes any major sport has ever seen. The goal is to reduce game time, which has run over three hours long since the turn of the millennium. But is this sweeping change enough to keep fans engaged with the game? Jeff Passan clocks in to talk about what we’ve seen from the pitch clock so far and its implications for the future…and Pablo says goodbye to ESPN Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	I'm going to try and blame this on my computer, but I'd rather blame it on the universe telling
0:07.6	me that it doesn't want me to do this, Jeff.
0:11.6	Does it want me to do this episode?
0:13.4	I'm sorry, I'm late.
0:16.0	Time is already a big theme of this incredibly strange thing we're about to do here.
0:21.8	Yeah.
0:24.0	One time a subject with which you're not particularly familiar, closing time that the
0:30.5	Doomsday clock, Pablo is ticking right now and we got about a half hour until it goes off.
0:37.6	Yeah.
0:38.6	Yeah.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:40.6	Yeah.
0:41.6	Countdown, um, commencing and and I look, we didn't.
0:45.0	Can I can I do some music in the background?
0:47.2	It is.
0:54.2	I think you have to stop there because you're actually too good at that.
1:01.4	And we're now venturing into copyright infringement.
1:04.4	By the way, your voice has gotten so good in the almost 700 episodes.
1:09.4	I've been hosting this show.
1:10.4	I've really seen you evolve and and I'm proud of you, Jeff.
1:14.9	I'm proud of you as as as as an artist.
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