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Originally Posted by Caporegime
Hey, why not? It's supposed to be a feel-good solution designed to help baseball keep pace with today's high-tech, fast-moving world. Haven't you heard?....Baseball is dying! Oh my!
If anything, the rule doesn't go far enough. Maybe all games should start in the bottom of the 9th with a runner on third. The games will be shortened on average of 98% and contain all action! Markus can rename OOTP to "Out of the Park in Thirty Seconds or less". Trust me, in today's fast-paced, high-octane, trans-fat-free America, it'll be a monster hit. We can then spend all that time we used to waste watching baseball discussing our feelings over a bowl of artisan chick pea salad or gluten-free hummus.
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Well said! And if you want to really hook kids on baseball, a team should sign an iPhone 7 to play second base. All kidding aside, I do not think any of the proposals put forward by Rob Manfred and company will do nothing to turn kids onto baseball who already consider it a "slow" sport. Perhaps Markus and the team should proposition Major League Baseball with a proposal of dispensing with live games altogether and let's just run them on the OOTP simulation engine. Forgot trying to shorten your average game to under 3 hours - we can get through a game in 10 minutes!
I think the problem is that we have a "get on with it, get it over with" culture that demands immediate gratification and immediate results. The pace of modern society has surpassed human scale and what society needs is more baseball, just as it is, with all the things that make it "slow" - which are the same things that make it beautiful.