Ok Theo, it’s time to earn those ownership dividends. The Red Sox need the MLB Commissioner’s office to implement a new rule change: no more fifth innings. From now on we’ll just jump right from the fourth to the sixth, thereby evading these horrifying half-innings that have doomed the Red Sox pitching staff for the past two nights.
I know what you’re thinking: Baseball’s been played with a fifth inning for 150 years! We can’t throw out all that tradition!
I hear you and I love tradition, too. But just think about it for a minute: has anything cool ever happened in the fifth inning?