Grandfather Time

I enjoy reading that people prefer preserving the pace of the game over the correctness of the calls made during it. It's this type of misdirection that is plaguing the League. The integrity of baseball will be solidified once the Office of the Commissioner does everything in its power to emphasize that the pace of the game is nothing without accuracy.

“I think my position has been clear,” Selig said. “This is a game of pace. I’m worried a lot about that.”

This quote is at the centerpiece of my argument against Major League Baseball - its priorities are so skewed that even during the playoffs, people spend too much time discussing the errors of play-calling and mis-managing than the actual game itself. Proper tools to diagnose the match-ups (i.e. better statistical analysis tools) and less of a reliance on umpires to make calls will open up the game to more praise and preserve its integrity, not destroy it.