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Major League Baseball has tremendous concerns about its pace of play, of being too slow for younger audiences, which will shove the sport off a demographics cliff probably within the next generation. The majority of the people thinking through this problem and being the public face of the solution are, on average, much older than the demographic they’re losing.
Still, without getting into ageism here (although, in a sport that’s all about metaphorically murdering men once they turn 30, discussing age shouldn’t be controversial but it’s the Internet, so, I know it will be), it should be abundantly clear by now that the people making decisions for Major League Baseball in the 21st century do not have a firm grasp on how the 21st century works.