The lords of baseball need to sit up and take notice - the way they are managing the game is ensuring that they will not be growing a new fan base from younger people. Why? Well, how many kids are going to be able to stay up to watch the playoff and World Series Games? The NFL has the right idea here - they run the SuperBowl at a time of day when everyone can watch it. Forget the prime time audience - go for an audience that can stay awake.

This article makes a number of other great points, especially this one about the length of games:

Shorten the games. Seriously, can we start enforcing the time between at-bats, namely with the Red Sox and Yankees? These guys have routines between pitches with more gyrations than Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. If there's no consequence for those two teams, there's no way other players are going to abide by the pace-of-game rules.

He's got that right. All it would likely take is a few "no" answers to Jeter's constant requests for timeouts while at the plate, and a few "get in the box" calls to some of the guys who have insane rituals between each pitch.

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