How to fix baseball from dying. Please add your suggestions to mine.

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This is no time for the faint-hearted. Attendance is down year after year. Stadiums are nearly empty for most games. There are too many unprofitable teams. And there's a reluctance to make needed, wholesale changes to the game to stir interest because of baseball's adherence to its "sacred" records/numbers.

I'm a fan but I don't watch the games until the post-season , and only the ones with teams I have a routing interest in.

Changes need to be made ASAP or the game will keep on dying. You used to see kids playing ball in parks or playing catch. You never see that anymore. Basketball and football have long since supplanted baseball's popularity.

I say cut the season to 100 games, cut the perennially under performing teams, put in a time clock for pitches to be delivered to reduce the length of games, award a base to the batter if the pitch is not delivered on time, thus creating more scoring/interest/excitement, cut the games down to seven innings (like NCAA women's softball where games move along swiftly), introduced a shoot-out/homerun derby at the end of seven inning, tied games so that there are no more hours-long, extra inning games, limit pitching substitutions to only 3 per game, leave it at 3 strikes for an out but cut balls needed to walk to also 3 for more base runners/potential scoring/excitement. That's all I can think of now but forget about the sacred numbers. Saving the game is more important. Make these changes and interest will come back.