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Steward: Calling a balk on the new intentional walk rule

Darting here and there …

–Aw, just take your base. We’re trying to move things along here.

–The new intentional walk rule comes about 20 years too late. Imagine the time we could saved on all of those Barry Bonds free passes. A year of our lives, maybe?

–So if you decide to just intentionally walk a guy on a 3-1 count, do you just hold up one finger? And which finger?

–Speaking of fingers, we wonder how Rollie Fingers feels about this new rule after faking an intentional walk pitch in the 1972 World Series and subsequently dealing one across the plate to strike out Johnny Bench.