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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Now objectively demonstrate using facts and evidence those other matters were trivial whereas your complaints are the only substantive ones. I'll wait.
The problem you're having is that you mistakenly think your preferences are objective facts to which everyone must agree. They're not and never will be. You can personally prefer whatever baseball period you like but stop acting as if your preferred period has been empirically demonstrated to be superior to all others. It's fallacious argumentation.
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I'm not having any problems. When baseball decided to lower the mound it didn't simultaneously do something else not nearly so evident to help the pitchers.
But when MLB decided to let proven inferior teams into the playoffs, it did things to try to prevent them from winning. The current system gives the best teams byes thus making the weaker teams play more games, it makes the weakest teams play more on the road, and thereby hopes to have its cake and eat it too. It wants the money from the big playoffs but it doesn't want the weak teams to win.
So by viewing baseball's own actions, we can see the dishonest gaming going on.