He takes a ball and then, as ever, steps out, checks the situation and settles back in. On some of the strolls some of these guys take, you wonder why they don't come back with the morning paper and a latte.
TV commercials are a part of it, but the dawdling has something to do with it, too.
But TV contributes to games seeming endless by showing too much away from the diamond. It has very little to do with the guys getting out of the box. Arthur Smith, executive VP at Fox Sports Net since 1996, is leaving at the end of October to start an independent TV production company.