If you were watching the Mets/Cardinals broadcast on ESPN Monday afternoon, you’d have heard a half-inning full of discussion on rules changes (i.e. the pitch clock and the shift ban) and how they’ll affect play, especially early on in Spring Training.
If you were listening to or watching Boomer & Gio earlier Monday, you’d also have heard that as least when it comes to the pitch clock, the boys are loving it.
“There is no question watching games over the weekend, that it is going to have a profound effect on us watching the game because it is, it is moving at a pretty fast pace and that's what it needs to be,” Boomer said.
“That’s what it needs to be; baseball needed to adjust and it did, this is finally something that really, really changes things and Pace of play is a big issue,” Gio responded. “I mean, I'm not someone who is Gen-Z, 18 years old who really has a terrible attention span, but I'm 40 and I've got a pretty bad attention span – and it’s getting worse because of the world we live in, and stuff like this is more appealing to me when it's faster.”
Boomer then spoke for the 60 and over crowd, understanding there are some older folks who might not like it because they enjoy the slower pace
“As someone who does love baseball and who does watch it for a living, not only my own team, but other games and watching other games,” Boomer said, “I'm just telling you it's fascinating just watching the whole thing.”
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Boomer was watching old friend Wayne Randazzo do an Angels-White Sox game over the weekend, and chronicled an at-bat with Yoenis Cespedes’ younger brother as an example of how much he loves the clock.
“There was a young pitcher on the mound, and this guy was getting the ball and throwing it, get the ball and throwing it until the point where he was going so fast, Cespedes struck out looking,” Boomer said, “but to me, that little glimpse of what it was going to be like is made me very satisfied.”
Gio agreed, getting back to that whole attention span deal again.
“I was thrilled, because it made me more excited for baseball season,” Gregg said. “To me, a regular season game in a sport other than football, 2 ½ hours is the perfect amount of time.”
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