Morning Brew's Jovial Opening today
Good morning. It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball, marking the second season a pitch clock has been enforced to speed up the game. In their first year, the clocks were impactful: The average nine-inning game was 24 minutes shorter than in 2022. Multiplying that across the 2,430+ games played during the season, it means more than 40 fewer days of baseball were played in total.
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With results that impressive, don’t be surprised to see pitch clocks added to other areas of society. Let’s get a 10-second timer on people choosing their sides at a restaurant.
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S: Morning Brew