The Cincinnati -Reds go faster than any team ever

It may be pretty easy to please MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, but you would never know. Recognition to him: The man always looks like a traffic police officer on a rainy day. Manfred was accused a long time ago not to have enjoyed baseball. Because of his usual expression, he clearly spent a plea for this special change instead of the assembly of any defense.

But there is a team that Manfred can love without reservation. They do baseball like all other teams, absolutely, but most important to stop Rob, they do it quickly. Actually absurd. They are the Cincinnati -Reds, and if Manfred understands what his audience wants right, this is less of what they paid per portion, these red are the team that saves the game.

Guess which side you should bet on.

Manfred was a driving force behind most of most changes in the rules that baseball made less leisurely pastime in recent years, especially in the Pitch clock. The game Times, which allegedly Were Killing Interest in the Games as Opposed to the Panoply of Ailings and Failings that actually Have Customers Away, Have Been Reduced by a Half-Hour Since 2021, and Though Neithe Attendance Nor Ratings Hve Boosted in Ways That That Reflect that Nearly 20 Percent Reduction in Elapsed Game Time, The General Feeling is that Less Baseball is Better than Better, and that less standing around Between Act of Baseball is fantastic.

Now enter the Cincinnatis that Manfred’s rage for hurry more enthusiastic than any other than any other. You have to. Apart from Elly de la Cruz and maybe the young stadiums of Hunter Greene’s career, they are deeply faceless and result light. They play in the second smallest of MLB’s media markets, their salary bills are modest and they are particularly angry about it and their participation in the lower half of the business. At 8-8 in the new season you are firmly defined in the Midpoint des Sports.

Despite all of this, the reds can at least say with pride and convincing confirmation of the evidence that they lead less than everyone else, and as such as such by default, Manfred’s favorite team, even if he can neither say it nor can say loudly. They whirled the 4-0 win against Pittsburgh on Sunday in a hyper-lively 2:03 and found the fastest game of the season. In addition, it was the 13th time in their 16 games that the red two and a half hours didn’t even play. Their average playing time is less than 2:20. This is not just 55 minutes faster than the 2021 -Reds, although this is a remarkable performance in itself. Since the average playing time this year is 2:40, the Reds are the fastest team in baseball by about the length of one and a half inning, and at this speed it will be the fastest team in baseball since then 1953.

This may not mean much, certainly not with basketball and hockey playoff season, but it clearly means a lot for Manfred or should. He can pretend that he wants to be the impartial referee, what is not as much or so meaningful in view of the fact that he works for the owners-but the red have brought his no-loaning campaign to their chest. If these Brisker games mean less sold beers and less top-class nitrate threats, they at least follow the preferences of the big boss.

The Reds were the first team in history to lose three consecutive 1-0 games at the beginning of this year, what a statement they would think about how committed they are to continue. When it happened, it was only an indication of what they could do and how quickly they would do it. Sunday was the third shutout victory in the last six games, all of which were completed in less than two hours and ten minutes. This does not seem to be an anomaly to enable the small sample size. Under the new manager Terry Francona, the reds seem to play with their cars in the parking lot. This may be due to the fact that Francona, who retired in this off -season to take over the job, may have unpublished problems with the bedtime. But you could also be honest.

The actual tipoff can be found in her two longest games, the agonizing marathons that hardly reached the average time of any other game in sports. The two longest games from Cincinnati were an 11: 7 victory in Milwaukee, the 2:40, the league and an 8: 6 defeat in San Francisco with 10 innings and 2:41. The last time the Reds played an 11: 7 game before the pitch clock’s advent, this game took 4:08, a figure that reflects an era in which we all live forever and never made ourselves over disgusting objects like the finite nature of time. You know 2019. In 2023, the first year of the pitch clock, they defeated the Orioles 11: 7 in a 10-end game that did not quite reach for almost four hours. Something scary works clearly here.

We now live in another world and the things we still have to do, we will want to do quickly. The reds are not typically referred to as progressive thinkers when it comes to trends, show us the way. By playing less actual baseball than any other, she drives on the new leader of the entertainment. Due to the worst crime of a team, which is not called Pirates or White Sox, who are their own category, the Reds have significantly reduced the CO2 footprint of RUN production, which was previously a sign of competitive prosperity. As a related by -product, they also diligently prevented them from preventing the other team’s rackets from pollution of performance. In other words, the Reds are the model of contemporary American life-weniger of everything for the same costs, while they still deliver the veneer of target-based effort.

See that everyone can be Pittsburgh or the southern sides of Chicago, although in view of the anonymity of witness protection of these roster, it could be more precise to say that he could actually be someone. In any case, it does not need a imagination to be terrible, provided you are okay with everyone in your city if you hate them or worse, ignore them. The reds don’t do that. They are a model of branding and just-in-time meanness of the middle of the 21st century. The red bring you home to dinner in time. With the red you can sneak into a ball game and bring them back to the office before the boss knows that they left. They improve their health by reducing the time in which they spend their inside with a baseball stadium and drink that turns their arteries into torpedo bats, and the time in which they sit in the sun and absorb threatening sunburn. “Do I bring me to the ball game?” Hah! “Bring me home from the ball game”, rather.

At a time when people over the Dodgers model, everything that the METs cannot buy not Do what they are paid for. Like these Peruvian colibris, they are in the America The Tom Hanks series tells – they didn’t know anything about them until they saw them, and they were only there briefly before they were gone again. The only thing they have to find out is how to be as unforgettable as the Kolibris, and that is not easy if their great export is out of view. At the moment you have to be satisfied with being Rob Manfred’s model team for the new baseball – if you can see it.