"2023: first year of the pitch clock. This is really literal but... before the pitch clock, I had a rhythm going where much baseball was watched while working or doing other stuff, and I had pitchers timed pretty well to be able to look up for the pitch and then go back to whatever I was doing in between pitches."
"2006: Nothing to do with baseball, but this was my first season that started when I was at college. Before 2006, I watched basically every game from 2001-2005 because there wasn't much impeding me. In 2006 I had to transition to lugging my laptop with MLB.tv around for day games, making arrangements at my part-time jobs to leave before games, and really started watching games as a secondary thing as opp"
A set of generic questions for February was distributed; some felt redundant while others simplified prompt creation. Personal reflections identify season-specific changes that affected viewing behavior and team-building thinking. The 2015 juiced-ball era shifted emphasis away from pitching dominance and influenced roster construction priorities. The 2023 pitch clock eliminated long between-pitch intervals, disabling multitasking and turning games into more background noise or causing missed pitches. A 2006 transition to college and part-time work forced portable viewing via MLB.tv and made watching games a secondary activity. Practical changes in rules and life stages reduced passive viewing and reshaped expectations about team performance.
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