The MLB - MLBPA conversation that has ramped up to discuss putting lipstick to the rule book is not something that is going to fade away. Something will come out of this. The game will be changed from what it has been.
The game has already changed from what it has been. We have been living within a 20-year information revolution that has been accelerating, at an accelerating rate. And that information has had a direct impact on the field itself. We (well, most of us who are computer users on a global Internet) have been open-minded to those information-driven changes.