MLB 2022 The beginning of the end ?

[TecmoBengals]

(03-28-2022, 02:36 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Yep

I grew up in the 70's, Big Red Machine/baseball was my first love. I ate, slept, walked, talked baseball around the clock. I had half a dozen shoe boxes full of Topps baseball cards in 1975 or whatever.

Baseball has never been a fast paced sport full of action. And it never will be. Perhaps it's just not adaptable to the new age fast food everything has to come in a nano-second, instant gratification age ?

Watching a game today is like watching paint dry. Homerun or a strikeout baseball is just not fun. Players can't bunt, there's very little hit and run, how many suicide squeeze's you seen lately ? steals ? on and on.

Perhaps we're just to old ?

It might be that we're too old. I loved my 1980s baseball for the bunt, hit and run, the stolen base and the guys who could flash leather. As you said, it's long ball and strike outs now. I also dislike the extent pitching has become specialized because it has slowed down the game.

I don't lose sleep over all this, but from time to time I'll think about how I enjoy the NBA & NFL more than a MLB game. 10 to 18 years old me knew every player in MLB, batting orders, stats, and so much more. Now, not so much. Life and tastes change I suppose.