Zohn reader Pat Carlin just sent me an email I love. Pat writes the length of baseball games has increased to the snore point because of batting gloves.

This is brilliant, honest it is, and I wish I had thought of it.

Next time you watch a game notice how much time batters waste adjusting their gloves after every pitch. The pitcher throws ball two, the batter doesn’t swing, he steps out of the box anyway and adjusts both gloves. You want to die of boredom at this meaningless tic, this nothing habit. And it adds time.

In the old days — I know, I’m old and senile — Gil Hodges took ball two and hung in there and waited and the pitcher threw the next pitch. And baseball happened.

Now batting gloves happen.

You almost wish they’d ban batting gloves.