Can you hear them now? Calls for bullpen relief going wireless

Major League Baseball is a game that clings to its history like no other.

“Tradition,” it shouts in a way that would make the Fiddler on the Roof proud.

There is a reason things have always been done this way,

even if that point seems long forgotten.

Change, it seems, has a place only as the name for an off-speed pitch.

Alas, Tevye and baseball purists will be dismayed. One of baseball’s great traditions has yielded to progress.

Hang it up.

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