[canthonytucci]

The lack of a time limit is to many one of the key elements of the game that differentiated it from pretty much every other professional sport.

“It ain’t over til the arbitrary time limit” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

[Arainach]

Pandering to the few diehards who can pay attention to more than 100 games a year on every day of the week including weekdays for 4+ hours at a time is not a sustainable way to build or maintain interest in your sport in newer generations.

[canthonytucci]

Just let it die with dignity. Baseball’s subtlety and pacing is incompatible with the current zeitgeist.

Desperately gimmickicng it up isn’t going to save it.

See also NASCAR’s fake cautions that make the first 3/4 of the race pointless.