MLB can’t stop ruining its own product with needless modifications
When I nod my head, you hit it.
I’m a dope. I spend more time worrying about what baseball’s doing to baseball than those who run The Game.
But a good laugh warms the chill.
Reader Pat Esposito sent a screen shot from the Mariners-Red Sox game, as televised Thursday by the MLB Network. After he’d stopped laughing, he felt the need to share a good joke.
The Red Sox had the bases loaded — Alex Verdugo on third, Trevor Story on second, Bobby Dalbec on first.
That’s when MLBN — from a high, wide shot — decided to graphically explain what it means to have the bases loaded. You know, just in case there wasn’t enough to impede the view or that a viewer, just arrived from the Isle of Duh, needed help.
Above Verdugo, MLBN posted a graphic, an arrow pointing down at him. It read, “...