Quit messing around and play ball.
We all gladly pay to watch Nolan Arenado play baseball. His glove, his bat and his passion are all worth the price of admission. The Rockies agree. That’s why the team is paying Arenado a hefty $26 million in 2019 to play baseball.
But I wouldn’t give you a bent nickel to watch Arenado stand around and wait.
Baseball moves slower than the line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, and commissioner Rob Manfred knows it.
So what is baseball going to do about it?
Purists, who hate any suggestion baseball is boring, insist the lack of a clock is part of the game’s eternal beauty.