[Phlap]

Baseball is timeless. 27 outs with the lead has been the standard for over 150 years and now there has been talk about a clock. Replay has been a disaster and a clock would be the end.

[oh8eleven]

Replay has been a disaster and a clock would be the end.
Baseball has been, and remains, it's own worst enemy ...

• Seven or eight player strikes or lockouts in a 20 year period;
• canceling the '94 World Series;
• replay challenges;
• late night games during the playoffs and WS;
• steriod and drug use;
• Bud Selig's turning a blind eye toward steroid and drug use;
• "flex-scheduling" - allowing tickets to be sold to an afternoon game, then changing the game to a late night start;
• unending commercials between innings;

... to name a few.

[TBP]

You want to speed up the game? End walk-up music. That makes the process of walking to the batter’s box longer. 30 seconds of walk-up music times a minimum of 54 batters (27 outs per side) makes almost half an hour.

Limiting mound visits is fine with me. Some of teh other changes are fine. I do NOT like the no-pitch intentional walk (and it certainly seemed to surprise Yadier Molina last night.)

Technically, there has “always” been a pitch clock (at least, for as long as I can remember.) The truth of the matter, though, is that there is no penalty. if they called a ball when the pitcher exceeds the allotted time (or a balk if there are men on base), that would be MUCH more effective than a clock.