The Plan to Save Baseball From Boredom

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Major League Baseball is putting in effect some of the biggest changes in the sport’s history in an effort to speed up the game and inject more activity. As the 2023 season opens, Michael Schmidt, a Times reporter, explains the extraordinary plan to save baseball from the tyranny of the home run. Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, a national security correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	I have a mild amount of light buzzing.
0:06.0	Is that okay?
0:07.0	That's because Rob has got his mic on in that control room.
0:10.6	Okay.
0:11.6	But he's going to turn it off now.
0:12.6	By Rob.
0:13.6	Yeah, see ya.
0:14.6	See ya.
0:15.6	That's a home run call.
0:17.6	Oh, really?
0:18.6	What's that?
0:19.6	Can you just explain that to me?
0:23.0	So I think the lead announcer for the Yankees on television when they hit a home run goes
0:29.5	see ya.
0:30.5	Oh, because like the ball is gone.
0:32.7	Yeah, yeah.
0:33.7	Not like it's going.
0:35.3	It's going.
0:36.3	Well, there's the other one.
0:37.3	The other Yankees wants it.
0:38.5	It is high.
0:39.3	It is far.
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