Baseball remains a distinctively wonderful sport, but it is often one of delayed gratification.
That can make it a tough sell in this impatient age of social and antisocial media, which is why cockamamie corporate ideas like beginning extra innings with a runner on second base are given legitimate consideration.
Baseball is best at a slow burn over the long season. The commissioner and his league-partner cronies want straight fire every night.
In that quest, they had better not extinguish elements of what makes baseball great. Don’t retroactively ruin George Carlin’s famous bit on baseball versus football, you know what I mean?