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We can all agree that baseball is no longer America's pastime. For sure, right? The NFL is the undisputed king. No contest. Scarcity is a big reason why. Millions of us are waiting for pro football
training camps to open and any nugget of information on our beloved teams and players.
We're also dreading the end of the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup, because that means baseball is all there is for a long spell.
The MLB season is 162 games long, or should I say, approx. 62 games too long. How people cover this sport for a living in The Year 2024 AD and have the attention span to do so is beyond me. Big salutes to all around, not to mention the players who have to grind through that many games, only to have their playoff fates decided in comparably blink-of-an-eye fashion.
So how do you spice up Major League Baseball, besides a
Shohei Ohtani gambling scandal that was surprisingly short-lived, and a pitch clock? By bringing Snoop Dizzle to your Televizzle during Saturday's otherwise sleepy NL Central showdown between the Brewers and Reds, via the broadcast both. That's how.
https://twitter.com/Brewers/status/1802089667078050109
Two minutes and thirty-four seconds of footage cut up by Milwaukee's X/Twitter handlers gives us plenty of gold, but the highlight of Snoop Dogg's time on this particular mic was no doubt his fascination with Cincinnati shortstop Elly De La Cruz. The cannon-armed 22-year-old made an off-platform throw that'd make
Patrick Mahomes swoon on a bang-bang play at first — much to the surprise of Snoop.
https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1802084119268278564
Not to be, like, too much of a Negative Nathaniel when it comes to MLB, but come on. This is the coolest thing to happen to that league since the transient spike of excitement from Opening Day. It's not even close. For the record, I really enjoy going to the ballpark for a game. Watching it on TV, though? Nowadays? Maybe I'll tune in for the AL/NLCS and the World Series. Before that? Hard pass.
...That is, unless we get more Snoop Dogg breakdowns. Baseball people twist their brains into pretzels to create all these obscure stats and gaslight themselves into thinking their game is more interesting than watching paint dry. I'm being totally sarcastic and facetious with that last sentence, but still.
The point is, Snoop Dogg is more entertaining than 99.99999% of anything that happens during an MLB regular season. We're beaten to death with 162 games of it. Something's gotta change. An
in-season tournament like the NBA, maybe? Gladiatorial matches in the infield between innings? Snoop Dogg taking over the PA system to rap, live-announce segments of any given game?
Charles Barkley is apparently retiring from breaking down the NBA on TV. MLB, throw the damn bag at him.
Do
anything, Rob Manfred. I would say, "Not holding my breath for any meaningful change!" but I'm so used to hurrying up and waiting as is when it comes to the sport of baseball.
