Pitchers are throwing strikes, hitters are swinging, you're putting the ball in play sooner. You have a tidier game. There aren't as many walks. There aren't as many 3-2 counts. It's crazy, we're in this Nintendo world, where everything is moving faster and faster.
Baseball just keeps getting slower and slower.
Palermo has been working on this since '95. And it's a worthy cause. I would donate money to it, if I could. Because the shrinking strike zone, in my opinion, has been the No. 1 factor for the home-run binges, the games that last longer than a Ken Burns documentary, the pitchers who throw 128 pitches in the first three innings. Just call the strike zone.