Thread 2 1/ I also find the argument that baseball needs to appeal to a lower attention span crowd to be short-sighted and self defeating.
2/ The very design of baseball as a game is a long, relatively slow-paced game, where some of the key moments of winning a baseball game are silent ones. Baseball the sport itself is designed to not appeal to short attention spans.
3/ Unless you change the very basic structure of a game of baseball, it's going to be far worse a short attention span game than things actually designed to appeal to a shorter attention span and you're not changing that with playoff structure.
4/ Baseball abandoning its core fans in order to bring in more short attention audiences, who already have entertainment choices far better suited to their needs, just kills baseball even faster.
5/ There are far more people tuning in to dota2 championship than have ever tuned into watch a Mahler symphony. That doesn't mean that a symphony's business model should be having Gustavo Dudamel put down the baton and learn some Bounty Hunter ganking in dota2.
6/ Baseball should focus on what baseball actually does well instead of what it's not. And if it really wants to change that, then it has to be radical. Three-inning games, four man lineups that start at the top, 10 man rosters.