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Wed Jul 18, 2018 7:21 pm
I agree with the original post here. Also, last night's All-Star game looked more like a love feast, fraternity party where everyone was trying to be uber cool. A red carpet fashion stroll of ballplayers?? Gimme a break!
The game is definitely changing, for the worst, mostly. If starters are devalued, then we will lose a lot of stars and big personalities -- who cares about relievers? The big game starter is the pinnacle of being a pitcher, and if MLB loses that, then it hurts itself in branding and promotion.
Meanwhile, I don't think I've heard a bigger dolt than Rob Manfred, MLB commissioner. He never played the game. He never played the game, repeat. He is a lawyer. And yet, he wants to "open the conversation" about a host of reforms to try to get the millennial generation interested in baseball. A fool's errand. Manfred is a tool of the owner establishment, freaked out over the loss of young people. They will destroy the current game to make money and more money, trust me.
The most fantastic aspect of baseball is its history and culture. The players and teams of days bygone are far more authentic, interesting than the hyped, money-driven people and MLB system of today. Sure, the old days involved money and greed too, but on a lesser scale, and at least it did not dominate the consumer like it does today. Witness announcers injecting commercials into actual play-by-play and commercial graphics crawling across the screen during plays. At first when this started happening, some people complained, but now no one gives a rat's ass. We've become numb, passive, brain-dead to the greedheads' utter dissolution of our sport.
The game is definitely changing, for the worst, mostly. If starters are devalued, then we will lose a lot of stars and big personalities -- who cares about relievers? The big game starter is the pinnacle of being a pitcher, and if MLB loses that, then it hurts itself in branding and promotion.
Meanwhile, I don't think I've heard a bigger dolt than Rob Manfred, MLB commissioner. He never played the game. He never played the game, repeat. He is a lawyer. And yet, he wants to "open the conversation" about a host of reforms to try to get the millennial generation interested in baseball. A fool's errand. Manfred is a tool of the owner establishment, freaked out over the loss of young people. They will destroy the current game to make money and more money, trust me.
The most fantastic aspect of baseball is its history and culture. The players and teams of days bygone are far more authentic, interesting than the hyped, money-driven people and MLB system of today. Sure, the old days involved money and greed too, but on a lesser scale, and at least it did not dominate the consumer like it does today. Witness announcers injecting commercials into actual play-by-play and commercial graphics crawling across the screen during plays. At first when this started happening, some people complained, but now no one gives a rat's ass. We've become numb, passive, brain-dead to the greedheads' utter dissolution of our sport.
