💬 Quoted…​​ “The whole world will be talking about it.”

That was Atlanta Braves bench coach Walt Weiss’ reaction after his team lost its first MLB spring training game over the weekend on a walk-off called third strike… due to a violation of the league’s new pitching clock.

• Starting this season, the MLB is implementing new rules that give pitchers a max of 15 seconds to throw when the bases are empty, and 20 seconds when there’s a runner on-base – or an extra ball is added to the count.
• On the flip side, batters must be in the box and “alert to the pitcher” with no less than eight seconds remaining on the clock, or they receive an extra strike.

P.S. Maybe not the whole world, Walt… but definitely us.

💰 Stat of the Day: American millennials in their 30s held a collective $3.8 trillion worth of debt by the end of last quarter, per new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; that figure represents a 27% jump from late 2019, or the fastest rate of increase since 2008.

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