[Leaning Right]

> Just speed up the pace and get more excitement in there!! <

I couldn’t agree more (see my post #13). As it is, you could walk away from a baseball game for 15 or 20 minutes, and hardly miss a thing.

But no way will MLB change a thing. Because of tradition and such. And that’s a shame. Because baseball could be an interesting sport, if only it were updated.

[hanamizu]

Because baseball could be an interesting sport, if only it were updated.

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Cricket, baseball’s big brother, has been willing to change, despite its traditions. Instead of games lasting 3 days, one form now can be played in the time of say an MLB game—three hours or so. Another form 20/20 can be even shorter.

Rugby has devised a format—7s—7 players on a side instead of 15, played in two 7-minute halves instead of two forty minute halves. So the game can be played in less than a half hour. But with this format you get to see several games.

So it can be done. Very traditional sports can evolve to suit more modern tastes.

[TBP]

They’re experimenting with numerous changes.

[kosciusko51]

The designated hitter and inter-league play shows that the MLB is willing to sacrifice tradition for $$$.

So when someone in the MLB organizations starts talking about tradition, I don’t believe it.