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Tempus fugit, baseball. (Remote Patrol).
Baseball trying to speed itself up always struck me as bad feng shui--if I'm at a game and it runs longer than three hours, I think like a concessionaire: It's a bonus, baby! Yet, for years The Lords have been trying everything but nitrous oxide to make their business model more palatable in an ADD-infested marketplace where microwave burritos are the ideal.
"Time is a far more precious commodity than money," declares Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB's Advanced Media division, who claims he now can see the light at the end of the pastime's tunnel vision. Now playing on his MLB.com website: Condensed Games, virtual TV replays of virtually every at-bat from virtually every contest. How much time does it take to watch a Condensed Game on your PC? Less than it takes Domino's to deliver.
Bowman explains that in a typical 280-pitch game, 85 are strike threes, ball fours or balls put in play. For $4.95 monthly, MLB.com extracts those "action pitches" from local/national telecasts, posts them about 90 minutes after the final pitch and leaves them online all summer.
Condensations run 20 minutes, more or less. (The May 17 Twins-Yankees marathon starring Jason Giambi's 14th-inning grand slam compressed to 36 minutes, still a savings of 5 hours and ...
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