There’s not a lot about how baseball goes about its business
that makes sense to me. Their blackout policies might make sense
on some level most of us couldn’t possibly see, but it leads to
terrible press, and there just has to be a way to make more
games available to more people for the same (or more) money. The
policy prohibiting the free publicity for their product that
comes from unofficial videos on YouTube makes much less sense
than that. A more thorough, efficient instant replay system is
years overdue.  Even more than those things, though, I find
myself confused by the issues MLB, and the people covering it,
decides to emphasize (or not). It reminds me a bit of the
American news media, and its habit of sensationalizing and
harping on certain stories — many of which don’t amount to
anything — while largely ignoring other, more important ones.
Here’s a bit about the former that’s kind of like the latter:
The media and fans still completely lose their minds over the
whole PED thing, which, a few years d