Is changing baseball as we’ve known it for years messing up the game or is it past time its sped up to appeal to a larger audience with an increasingly shorter attention span?

a Fair Weather Fan

After a century or whatever of 9+ inning 162 game seasons, an absolute eternity of baseball to our early existetnce, albeit a grain of sand in the cosmos, the pitch clock, in theory, makes all the sense in the world.

It’s the perfect regular season game to rip a quick snooze to. It carries along the same yacht rock kind of tune, in which Golf and Sunday Soccer share the genre. The pitch clock is a golden addition to the game.

Baseball fans should benefit. Curious to see what the end of season ratings look like versus last year.

Opening day is always a treat, but there’s too much baseball played between April and October for my interest & attention to remain grasped. But I suppose it does make me want to catch some of the big games and great matchups throughout.

That… and a hell of a Red October.

Trea Turner. Harper at 1st. Realmuto still gunnin fools on the shortened bases. Gonna be a hell of a Summer and a season.

Speaking of October…

Playoff baseball needs no changing.

Year after year, the drama seems to follow the fall season. It feels guaranteed. Like March Madness, baseball can feel like the most unpredictable of the four major sports. The NBA & NFL tend to feature the best teams start to finish, but like the Phillies did last year, the cinderella stories tend to happen at a higher clip.

The last 6 seed to reach the Super Bowl was the 2005 Steelers. The last finals surprise might’ve been the Bubble Heat and that wasn’t too far-fetched. Jimmy Butler is a goddamn dawg and it still sucks he’s not a Sixer.

Whatever, we’re rockin with a reckless squad of our own right now. Could see those boys in the ECF

In recent Basketball years. Lebron, Warriors, Spurs, had the finals on lock for a decade.

Brady and the Chiefs in Football. These Eagles might one day join those dynasties that are able to churn out consistent Conference Championship and Super Bowl appearances. Hell of a time to be a Birds fan, ladies and gentlemen.

Hockey? I don’t really know shit about hockey but I feel like there’s a lot of turnover there. I know the Blues won recently, that’s gotta mean something.

Moving on…

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You KNOW one of these attention-hungry hippos of Umpires this season is going to make the moment about him. Calling somebody out a full second early on the pitch clock because they want to make a *splash* of their own theatrics.

But The Question on my mind…

after 162 games of speed ball Will They Return to Form for The Unmatched Drama of MLB Playoff Baseball?

Apparently, they won’t go back… as reported to me by a guy at my brother’s bachelor party and likely other reputable sources I don’t feel like researching.

Other head nods in the group confirmed the source. So I’ll run with it.

Hypothetically, if they diiiddd go back during the playoffs… I think it would be like riding a bike for some and for others, the absolute routine psychos that so many baseball players are, it could throw off their medulla oblongata in

And that’s according to the latest report from the renowned Philadelphia Sports Psychologist, Dr. Shago Marlin.

I’m sure the players would adapt easily despite the fact that a lot of these guys are psychos about their routine so they won’t bother to change come playoff time.

The thought of a massive Game 7 at-bat being decided by a play clock is nauseating. I don’t think the MLB is dumb enough to allow that to happen, but then again, maybe they are.

They could keep the timeout rule but add a second for both pitcher and batter to make sure things don’t get crazy.

We shall see.