Minor Leaguer Rey Navarro finally doubled after a marathon 6.5 minute, 16-pitch at-bat

Baseball has seen longer at-bats than Norfolk Tides second baseman Rey Navarro's 16-pitch adventure at the plate on Sunday. The longest, according to modern pitch-by-pitch records, was Ricky Gutierrez's 20-pitch at bat on June 26, 1998, which ended when a young Bartolo Colon struck him out.

But has baseball seen an at-bat as delightful and folksy as this one? As Navarro battled the pitcher, the Tides broadcasters found time to have quite a lively conversation. In the video below, as pitch after pitch is fouled off, you can hear thoughts on such disparate topics as:

- The weather

- Game scores around the league

- Bark in the Park

- The rules and quirks of cricket

- Whether or not an abacus is an animal, and, if it is, what it should be fed

Watch for yourselves:

Here's the CliffsNotes version: 

Finally, after six and a half minutes (allegedly the amount of time Tom Cruise held his breath in the newest "Mission Impossible" movie), Navarro doubled:

Navarro would eventually come around to score, though the Tides would lose to the Indianapolis Indians, 5-4. No word on if the broadcast team adopted an abacus from the local Obsolete Mathematical Devices shelter.