Modern Day Use of the Bullpen in Baseball

Fair Warning: This is one of my major league pet peeves! The use of the modern day bullpen is a sore point with me. In my opinion, this practice is holding baseball back from gaining more widespread popularity. In order to gain more attention, all unnecessary down time needs to be eliminated. It is my opinion that the length of the games prevents people from becoming fans. The game can be just too darn long for the non-fan to cope with. One of these bottlenecks is the unnecessary use of bullpen "specialists" (I use that term loosely). A "specialist" is a pitcher who comes in just to face one batter and then is replaced by another pitcher who happens to throw with the other arm. If you are a major league pitcher, you should be able to get out major league batters no matter which batter's box they're standing in! This is a situation where I throw Sabermetrics out the window. To me this was the idea of a few managers, which worked so well at the time t...