Baseball
In reply to the discussion: How to fix baseball from dying. Please add your suggestions to mine. [View all]brush
(58,447 posts)Baseball should look at changes to speed the game up so it isn't so boring. Basketball has over time added the shot clock, widened the lane, the 3pt shot and even the zone. Football has also made many changes as the need has come up. Both sports have made changes and kept it moving without digging in their heels and crying out in anguish that you can mess with the rules of the game. Go back 150 years and you wouldn't even recognize baseball as it was played back then. It changed to make it more interesting then it froze itself for 150 years but the country kept changing.
Baseball has remained stagnant and it shows in the increasing disinterest in the game year after year. We can do nothing and watch the game continue to wither or add innovations as other leagues have to keep interest in a nation whose pace has sped up since baseball was THE major sport. It isn't now because it hasn't kept up with the pace of the nation.