Today's the last day of the MLB regular season (I don't know what's going on with that Marlins-Mets makeup game Monday). It seems like the season has sped by more quickly than any other season I've watched. There is still a whole postseason to watch -- and it will be agonizing -- but while there's a break in the action, I thought I'd run quickly through some things that I liked and some things I didn't like about the 2023 season. I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff, because I didn't take very long to dwell on things -- and, frankly, I spend most of the baseball season watching my Dodgers and ignoring everyone else. But here's what I've got: THE BEST The pitch clock For the previous 15-20 years, if you wanted a fairly quick Major League Baseball game like we experienced in the 1970s and 1980s, you had to hope that a notorious quick worker was on the mound, like Mark Buehrle or Jon Lieber. Otherwise, hold onto your butts, you could be sit...
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