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If you’re a fan of the game, you’ve certainly read about Major League Baseball being at a crossroads.
But the way I see it, baseball ran the stop sign and is already a mile down the road toward permanent cultural irrelevance.
And without a neck-jerking, tire-squealing U-turn, the sport will cement its status as part of the ever-growing tranche of culturally unimportant regionalized sports leagues, right alongside hockey in America and Major League Soccer.
Yes, the nation’s pastime is certainly living up to its name these days — it’s a sport of past times.