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IIt’s been over a week since Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred gave up the latest bomb. As we know, Manfred likes to throw his ideas into the universe to make his movements pop easily while seeing the reaction of the masses. Just a few months ago, he made the brains of baseball fans climb up the brain with the idea of ​​”Bat’s Golden”, which would allow a player to have a game, a game, and it wasn’t yet. Oh, he got the publicity: Many of us bait. Is this a real, real idea? Probably not. When Major League Baseball changed the rules severely, we tend to see it play in the minor leagues, and what I heard in the end is that the baseball lineup is still linear on the farm.

Now Manfred brings unprecedented changes to the rules of the field – court clocks, shift bans, minimum batsmen’s minimum, ghost runners to name just a few – this time playing with the public’s mind, this time, the plan to surface the baseball’s 30 teams re-form 30 teams, and if the sport would increase to 32, it would add two more and more capabilities, which would add two tours, which was an expansion through the civition do Citderion, a growing citizenion, a cross-country-increasingly more. Nashville, Salt Lake City, Raleigh and Portland Considered a former runnerMontreal is imminent. This can effectively end the alliance structure that has been dominating baseball since 1903 Peace with the High-Level Alliance of Nations And agree to settle in the World Series to score instead of trying to close each other.

Manfred’s latest ideas have led to a freak on the internet, when everyone holds their breath, A wave of reorganization ideassome of them completely blow up the league, some of them left them mostly intact, flooding the area. As a 50-year-old baseball fan, my knee Jack reaction works side by side with Howie Rose, the New York Mets’ precious radio voice.

Ross said on X: “That’s the inevitable period I’ve been telling you. The American League (1901) and the National League (1876) will no longer exist. We know them.

During the week, I held my breath and started to collapse all, and started to change my tune. I asked myself, “How did these leagues fit together because of the cruel, 19th-century trade turn, possibly responsible for the tradition of baseball’s greatness?”

The more I think about Ross’s claims, the more doubtful the “traditional” the complaints from other fans are. Of course, it’s players, teams, games, dramas, field feats, records, stadiums, hot dogs, peanuts and cookie jacks, not the game the team plays in the league that makes us fall baseball. We have some evidence from half-children to support this. this Milwaukee Brewers He used to perform in Al West, Al East and Al Central and then moved to NL Central in the 1998 season. The Houston Astros once played at NL West and NL Central before playing at AL West in 2013. Almost nothing.

Therefore, after this reflection I want to satisfy Adam Curtis: Those who oppose dramatic reorganization—I probably mostly talk about fans over 35 years old—perhaps subconsciously, protecting their childhood memories and stories. That was when their love for baseball formed, there was a significant difference between the AL and the NL – from the strike zone to the league president who actually had a say in the game – and the All-Star game, people really care about the wins that the league won. More and more baseballs are getting rid of the sport, and more, the older fans are confused by the world they live in now. When it comes to this topic, they seem to be the loudest online.

This may be a little bit more for the baseball column, but in reality, that’s why nostalgia is so powerful because it puts people in the comfortable world they know best. In fact, this involuntary spasm is unfounded, which means that when I panic about NL panic is actually a waste: generic DH is here, good!

This is in stark contrast to young fans. Young fans entered the baseball game when the referee and the strike zone were all folded together, the inter-league matches had begun and run, with central departments and wildcards introduced, the league office was history, winning the All-Star game, and its importance for fans and players began to decrease. These fans are often more open and have changed the emotional attachment of the structure of the United States and the National League.

So for older traditionalists and reactionary young fans, if we say goodbye to the U.S. and the National League, then don’t worry. Welcome the potential of four team partitions. The super division of the Red Sox, the Phillies, the Metropolitan and the Yankees. Seattle can finally have a semi-local team like Portland. Competitions such as Minnesota and Milwaukee can be revitalized. Cats and dogs can indeed live together! No, it has nothing to do with the baseball set up in my childhood, no, this acceptance is not an endorsement of Manfred, whose job is to try and Cross out as many pennies as possible for the owner. However, a major change to the baseball structure is inevitable, as long as the game on the field is recognizable, what they threw at us, and they kept the gold bats away from the MLB, I was there.