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Opinion, observations and arguments from the SportsArena365 desk, clearly labelled.
Two leagues, one very long season
The MLB blog: opinion, rankings and arguments from the SportsArena365 desk. Clearly labelled as opinion, and kept separate from anything we report as fact.
Opinion · 3 min read
The long baseball season still earns its keep
Opinion: a schedule that asks for attendance every single day is out of step with how people watch sport, and it produces something no other league can.
Opinion · 3 min read
Pace of play rules changed more than the clock
Opinion: shortening the dead time between pitches also changed what players can do inside a game, and that second effect deserves more discussion than it gets.
Opinion · 3 min read
The broadcast booth as a second narrator
Opinion: how a game is called shapes how it is remembered almost as much as what happened in it, and baseball leans on that more than most sports.
Opinion · 3 min read
Watching alone with a radio on
Opinion: baseball is one of the last sports that genuinely works as pure audio, and that says something about the kind of attention it asks for.
Fandom · 3 min read
Why a losing team still fills seats
Opinion: attendance for a struggling club is often treated as a mystery or a failure of standards. I think it is neither, and the reasons say something good about the sport.
Opinion · 3 min read
The count is a conversation
Opinion: balls and strikes look like a simple scoreboard, but treating the count as a running negotiation between pitcher and hitter is the better way to watch.
