re: MLB approves no-pitch IBB for 2017 pending union approval

But see, I don't think time between pitches is what has turned people off of baseball. I'm not going to dispute facts the people at the MLB network obviously tracked. But I think it's the nature of the sport itself just doesn't resonate with younger people now. They like the flash and excitement the NBA and NFL bring that baseball just can't. i think what is lacking is marquee players and players chasing records. The steroid era saved baseball after the strike and the ensuing effort to punish steroid users and distance themselves from it killed baseball. A good number of the better players in baseball the past 10 years or so have been universally vilified by the baseball community, whether it be Bonds or Arod or Clemmons. And the media and investigations basically tarnished Sammy Sosa and McGwire's 1998 season, which was probably the peak of baseball the last 25 years.