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In reply to the discussion: (potential) Changes to MLB [View all]

brush

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9. The automatic strike zone is needed but probably will never...
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 10:30 AM
Nov 2021

happen, just as all the other suggestions will never happen. Baseball doesn't want to change and will continue to die off as it has for the last forty years.

What was once the most popular sport is now overshadowed by football and basketball. It's premier time, the playoff season is almost an after thought as football, basketball and hockey games dominate sportscasts during October.

And baseball keeps trudging along and losing viewership every year. And the thing is, players don't want to change. They keep stepping out of the box after each pitch to adjust their their wrist bands, or batting helmet or their crotch or whatever while the pitcher does sundry other things on the mound. Everything but the next pitch is more important. Who even watches regular season games anymore? They're so boring.

The games now consist of a parade of strikeouts or home runs as hitters swing for the fences...it's one or the other and that makes the game monotonous.

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