>> ^Shepppard:

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just, so we're clear, because I highly doubt you watch baseball at all, I will re-state that there isn't a whole lot of standing around.
People don't stand there and hold up the game while they warm up, that's what the batter-on-deck system is for, so when one batter has hit/walked/struck out, the next one can just walk up and take his place at home plate. There's roughly 1-2 minutes between innings, except for the 7th inning stretch when they usually bring out some form of pep squad, but on the whole, baseball has no down time other then time outs, which in the long run probably spells out less time lost then a soccer game because of the cards/penalties/free throws/penalty kicks, etc.
Batter is up to bat, pitcher pitches, the MOST pitches one batter can ever take is 6. All the while, there's bases potentially being stolen, and the pitcher continues to throw, with maybe 20 seconds of transition while the next batter steps up to the plate.


20 seconds of transition? time between each pitch for the same player is longer than 20sec.
any game that doesn't use 'dirty time' is a snoozefest...short of hockey

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just, so we're clear, because I highly doubt you watch baseball at all, I will re-state that there isn't a whole lot of standing around.

People don't stand there and hold up the game while they warm up, that's what the batter-on-deck system is for, so when one batter has hit/walked/struck out, the next one can just walk up and take his place at home plate. There's roughly 1-2 minutes between innings, except for the 7th inning stretch when they usually bring out some form of pep squad, but on the whole, baseball has little to no down time other then time outs, which in the long run probably spells out less time lost then a soccer game because of the cards/penalties/free throws/penalty kicks, etc.

Batter is up to bat, pitcher pitches, the MOST pitches one batter can ever take is 6. All the while, there's bases potentially being stolen, and the pitcher continues to throw, with maybe 20 seconds of transition while the next batter steps up to the plate.

On November 20, 2004. Yale students posed as a Harvard pep squad and distributed posters to the Harvard fans, telling them it would spell out "Go Harvard", while in reality a different message would be displayed.
Although the final result wasn't as clear as it could have been (you can barely make it out if you squint just so), I'll give the Yalies credit for attempting to pull off something like this.
Interestingly, if you see the picture in print anywhere, it's much clearer, obviously photoshopped!