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Baseball was getting less and less fun to watch. MLB is trying to fix it by speeding up the game, and basically penalizing people for turning every game into m
by wombat-man 3y ago
Baseball was getting less and less fun to watch. MLB is trying to fix it by speeding up the game, and basically penalizing people for turning every game into marathon low hit count affairs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/07/baseball-mlb-rule-changes-2023-pitch-clock/674291/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/07/basebal...
- SkyPuncher 3y agoI think baseball is eventually on it's way out. 162 games is far too many for any game to be meaningful and the actual games have very few exciting moments. To me, baseball is the sport that gets put on as the background noise in the bar when nothing else is on.
- wombat-man 3y agoI think it's still pretty big worldwide. There might be fewer people at the games but it's still a massive industry.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoAttendance depends heavily on the market. Dodgers fans fill the seats no matter the premium the owners put on the ticket.