E.L. wrote:
I think what makes baseball different than other sports is baseball has always been more of a game, a heavily romanticized one at that. Other sports are more about who's the best, so any technological advantage is welcome. But baseball has this historical throughline and we want that purity of the game where a Babe Ruth season can be contextualized with a Shohei Ohtani season because the game is fundamentally the same in a way other sports aren't.
I think where I draw the line is robot umps. The flawed human element of baseball is baked into the game. Then again, the pitch clock ended up working so maybe I'm just being too resistant to change.
So long as complete and utter morons like Angel Hernandez continue to be employed by MLB I want robot umps. The human element there is TOO flawed.
I just hate how the game has now had to be severely legislated because teams are just blindly looking at the numbers and acting accordingly. They now have to force teams to use pitchers for 3 innings because before they were just telling them to hurl until their arms bled and yanking them out of the game too quickly.
And don't even get me started with the absolute HORSESHIT going on in extra innings and doubleheaders.
It ain't even just how on-field strategy has been affected. Rob Manfred effectively used a spreadsheet handed to him by that cheating douchenozzle Greg Luhnow to effectively destroy minor league baseball, and basically half, if not two-thirds of the entire league just up and tanked for 2-3 years. Except for the Rockies. They never really tank, they're just bad with no discernible direction or purpose.