Fastball.

A couple days ago, while Ben and I were watching a particularly long Giant's game on television, I expressed a desire for some sort of service which would basically edit all the non-essentials of the game.

It would sort of be like baseball wrap-ups, pitch after pitch of high-speed fun. Because, you know, sometimes you don't have the time to sit through a three-hour game.

Especially when you're just watching it on the television.

It turns out, MLB.com has launched just a service:

"Not just baseball ... fastball! Watch a game's worth of action in about 20 minutes. Watch every hit, run & payoff pitch -- about 85 pitches -- in an action-packed 300K stream."

From the Real Video free preview, I think it's safe to say that what I pictured in my mind was a whole lot cooler.

Of course, the "service" I had imagined also involved hi-tech goggles and data dumps to the brain.

Perhaps if they add the blooper-reel footage music to the background, it would be a bit more exciting.

Link via Raelity Bytes.

Comments

[Paul]

TiVo can do this. You can record a game and keep it for later viewing, then zap through everything - or let it record live TV for about 30 minutes and zap through the unnecessary parts.

When I do record baseball, I only watch the home team take the plate. It makes the game go that much faster, and it's so much more interesting.

[Robert]

I don't know. Part of the beauty of baseball is that it isn't hurried. There's no clock dominating the action. Each at bat is like a miniature psychological skirmish between pitcher and hitter and watching that play out is as exciting to me as watching other, so-called faster-paced sports.

Now if you want to talk long, go watch a 9- and 10-year-old kid-pitch game when they start walking eight batters in a row!

[meryl]

I can't sit through a MLB game anymore. I could when I was a kid and I loved it. I've grown up and lost interest in it. Sad.

The MLB.com speed game sounds like it would hold my interest, but I have to say that our society just keeps getting faster and faster. We want news in two seconds. We want articles in one paragraph. It's a miracle when people can sit through long films like Lord of the Rings and Titanic.

Slow down. Smell the flowers. Do you even have flowers?

[Paul]

I have a photograph of flowers because I don't have the time to grow them myself, Meryl. eFlowers.

[lynn]

baseball is my favorite sport. when spring training begins my spirits lift after the winter lull and the excitement of going to opening day again revives me.

ahhh, but the delight of baseball is the leisurely pace, it is the one sport where you can actually carry on a conversation with those seated around you.

what i can't stand in today's baseball games is all the time allotted to a commercials, scanning the crowd for exhibitionists and anything with implants.

that and that dam singing god bless america
instead of take me out to the ballgame

there is still nothing better than a day game unless it's a double header.