And I Quote: August 12, 2008

"The long-standing theory is that the beauty of baseball comes in its pace, in its deliberate nature, in the fact that players have time to assess before each and every pitch; the game was never intended to be played solely out of reaction or athleticism. The stops in play were part of the attraction, particularly to those who watched baseball and wrote about it, because the details changed constantly. Ball one. The batter has the advantage. Strike one. The scale is balanced. The subtleties triggered emotions, which played on the mind, which invariably got in the way."
(Tony Massorotti, "Dynasty")