warrrreagl

I never played organized baseball past third grade, but I love to go to the games (college and MLB). At every single park I've attended, there are signs hanging on the outfield fence that say, "No pepper."

What is pepper, and how do you play? Why don't ball parks like it played there?

Also, why don't scoreboards in basketball games list the Timeouts remaining for each team? I've followed basketball very closely for years, and I STILL have no clue how many timeouts each team has remaining.

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djtestudo

Pepper is a practice game where one player uses a bat to tap balls to a group of fielders standing close by. It's designed to help reaction time. The reason there are signs like that is so they won't play the game near the fence and, presumably, risk hitting spectators.

Basketball scoreboards in some places do list timeouts; I've seen them in at least three places that I remember for sure.

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Halx

I know the scoreboard at Staples Center lists timeouts

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radioguy

American Airlines Center in Dallas lists them as well. Maybe your scoreboard just sucks!

quicksteal

My college's arena doesn't list timeouts, but our team sucks. Maybe there's a correlation.

warrrreagl

quicksteal, based on your location, the scoreboard you're talking about is the very same one I'm talking about.

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Shpoop

most NBA facilities list time outs, but the reason its impossible to keep track is that they only list main time outs, they also get 20-second time outs, i dont know how many, or if they are randomly initiated for tv...and if they are, they still call them time outs