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have no idea whether or not this is going to work. i'm going to have to say i'm cautiously pessimistic right now. but it is going to speed the game up, we hope. >> it is, jim. and baseball needs this desperately to attract young fans so people with the attention span of everyone now has changed from when we were kids loving baseball. so a pitcher has to pitch within 15 seconds once he gets the ball back. if there's a runner on base or runners on base, 20 seconds. and also, there are other little time periods involved here too. the batter needs to be ready eight seconds before the pitch. and the catcher needs to be ready before nine seconds. and what this means is that all the things we watch, all the little fiddles with his gloves, fiddles with the wrist bands where the pitcher's taking laps around the mound, that's done now. i think this is great.