Followup to Last Night's Comment Re: Baseball

Last night I commented on how silly the notion is that baseball does things only to please the fans (obviously that's a consideration, but during last night's Milwaukee/Minnesota game, they gave the impression that it should be the only factor). Now, on the ESPN website, columnist Rick Reilly (who I consider little more than a sanctimonious blowhard) reveals just how devastating that notion could be, by explaining the changes he would make if he were commissioner. Just for one example, he argues that the game should add a clock, thereby undermining what is one of the greatest characteristics of the game, it's leisurely pace and the prospect that you're always in the game until the final out. There's some other nonsense too, and I'm not even going to link to it because I think it's so stupid. If Reilly is the kind of sports fan who ever gets a chance to have a say in how the game should be run, I've little doubt he'd end up destroying everything that's special about it, just the way it is.