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Originally Posted by zappa1
I've decided the day the rule was announced. It stinks. So does the minimum 3 batter rule for pitchers.
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At least you had an open mind about it.
The runner on second rule was implemented to shorten games. It does that.
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These are the 2 worst rules so far to date. There are many others they've made, but, these 2 stink the most. And what a sneaky way to get the DH in for National League teams. Come next year, do you think they'll go back to pitchers batting. No they won't. I can't smell this one coming and this stinks, too. I'm hating modern baseball more and more and so are a lot of fans as the overall fan attendance goes down year after year. They don't give the fans what they want. They give them what they THINK they want. And when the fans run away, they think it's cause the game is too long. Well then why are fans still leaving? There must be something they don't like. Baseball refuses to fix it.
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I'm not sure that yearly attendance is a great way to measure baseball's popularity. Sure attendance numbers are down about 6 million fans per year since their peak in 2012, but subscriptions to MLB.TV have certainly be rising during that time.
If baseball is "dying", maybe it's just dying and not being killed. There are roughly infinity choices people can make for their entertainment. New ones are coming into existence all the time. It would be expected that older ones would start to lose popularity