If you’re reading this, chances are you love baseball. And — at least for the most part — you love it just the way it is, quirks and all. The four-hour Yankees-Red Sox marathons, the strategic use of the LOOGY, the inscrutable rules that dictate a balk. Seriously, what the heck even is a balk? It’s all part of the anachronistic yet timeless product that America’s pastime has been delivering to fans for 143 years.
Yet these days, there are fewer and fewer of us fans showing up to the ballpark.