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good to know the 2nd base ump is looking at a stopwatch and not at other potential happenings (balks, pickoffs, etc). Although unlikely to get caught not looking at the ball in a MLB game.
Perhaps MLB notfied the crew that the Indians were averaging the longest time of games in the league, or close to it (can't find stats anywhere, just speculating on why Wegner would do this).
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I realize that the 12 second rule is only in effect when no runners are on. So scratch off the pickoff part of my arguement. Still, licking the hand is called more than 12 seconds rule is.
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