It’s perfectly obvious to every NBA fan that baseball has never been more boring and out of touch with the average sports fan. These five solutions would fix MLB, America’s pastime overnight.
It’s no secret, dear friends that Major League Baseball is in serious trouble. America’s pastime has faced its fair share of turmoil over the years. The 1994 strike that cost fans the World Series and the fallout of the Steroid Era. But nothing holds a candle to the current crisis. All one can do is thank their stars MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has made it his mission to fix this problem once and for all.
That problem, of course, is MLB pace of play.
I can hear the objections now. The beauty of baseball is that it’s a timeless game that connects us with our past. That there’s no clock- it can go on forever, which is a good thing — with all the numbers and stats telling a story worth discussing. There’s poetry to an epic twenty-pitch battle between batter and pitcher. It’s a chance to relax, to reflect. An opportunity to eat a hot dog and discuss the merits of the DH, not just watch the day’s action.
Save it.
If you have time to watch a Major League Baseball game in 2018, it’s because you’re some loser who still uses the dial-up internet and a flip phone. Baseball has become hopelessly ponderous, painfully slow, and woefully out of touch with the average fan of sports in general. Things need to speed up. Pronto.
Other sports are blowing by baseball in popularity. Did you know that more people watched cross-country skiing and curling last week than they did baseball? Think about it.
The other three Big Four leagues are leaving baseball in the dust as well. I mean, what league wouldn’t want to be as smoothly operated as the NFL?
Consequently, the game must speed up. The following are five solutions that would fix Major League Baseball overnight.