Goose Gossage, Pete Rose and “unwatchable baseball”

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You've either heard me go on about them in the past year or two or you've heard others go on about them, but a short, non-exclusive list includes the view that there are too many home runs and strikeouts now, bullpen use has changed the nature of the game in less-than-great ways, and the game-going and sometimes merely game-viewing experience has become prohibitively expensive for some and annoying in many respects to everyone, to the point where it has become a barrier to even enjoying the product in the first place. Baseball has been around a long time, it changes more often than our nostalgic view of its history suggests, and all of us have our blind spots. One person's ideal game is one person's “unwatchable” game and it has always been thus.

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