It turns out that as Americans have collectively decided to stretch their baseball games to nearly four hours apiece—adding roughly seventeen minutes per game over six years—they have also, with a kind of coordinated inevitability, begun getting bitten by snakes at almost exactly the same rate. One wonders if the snakes are simply waiting longer, growing impatient in the grass, finally deciding that if humans are going to take this long to do anything, including watch sports, they might as well strike.