Steve:
This whole thing might be a false alarm; if so, sorry.
Very difficult to quantify, but here’s a dump from short-term memory after playing parts of a game.
When I click to check the Pause box at the same time that a PbP message is scrolling onto the display, the check mark does not immediately appear. This I sort of understand, because the PbP text is still running, and of course that series of messages does not just stop. However, I do expect my Pause command to take effect between pitches, and when I click while viewing a still-running PbP message, this doesn’t happen.
Between pitches, the PbP display is blanked, a little bit of processing takes place, then I see the defensive drop-down menus to the right display for an eyeblink or two, and then the display stays blank for another hunk of a second before the next play starts to scroll.
If I click the Pause box between pitches, it seems to work only occasionally if I click before the flash of the drop-down menus, but it works pretty often (if not always) when I click after the menus have flashed but before the next PbP has begun. Clicking at precisely the right time (if that’s what is needed to get this command to register) isn’t all that difficult, but it’s nonetheless a little frustrating to issue the command (during PbP) and see it ignored. I guess I thought my click would be stored in a buffer somewhere, ready to be brought into play after the PbP finished.
If the Pause toggle works only when you click between pitches and not during a PbP display, I can get used to that. If I’m hallucinating, I guess I can get used to that too.
BTW, forget what I said about early vs. late innings. A bad observation from sketchy anecdotal evidence.
Also, the screen doesn’t matter. I get the same results (or lack thereof) in either place, Broadcast or Webcast.