How Rob Manfred Saved Baseball

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  @BaseballDoesntExist · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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  @Roryz1 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m a 22 year NHL fan, I thought booing your commissioner at every opportunity was a normal sports thing

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  @bigben624 · 1 year ago

  The smartest thing manfred did was start the rule changes in the minors, it doesn’t matter what the fans or media think about the rules because they only effect the players. So by the time manfred was able to implement those new rules, there were already players in the league use to the new rules. Very smart implementation

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  @m.a195 · 1 year ago

  Pat McAfee ragging on someone getting paid millions to speak while drunk is HILARIOUS

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  @claytonmoore3027 · 1 year ago

  Gotta give him props. He has brought a lot of people back to the game and social media has allowed people In their early career to treat games as a social event rather than die hard fans

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  @therealfanmaster · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ll be honest, I love how this channel goes out of its way to challenge established narratives in the baseball community. It helps give new perspectives on ideas we all just assume to be true (The Astros are dirty cheaters, Angel Hernandez can&apos;t umpire, Manfred is ruining the game), and gives new perspectives on them. It&apos;s doubtful they will completely shift the narrative, but I think it&apos;s great that someone with a big enough following is trying to do this, despite as far as I know, not being directly affiliated with MLB.

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  @CorgiPuppie · 11 months ago

  Im 24 and i wouldnt have ever watched baseball without these changes

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  @veldementa · 1 year ago (edited)

  One big thing that you missed that I think isn&apos;t talked about enough is how much he&apos;s pushed for international growth in baseball. There&apos;s more foreign born players than ever and not only is the league doing a good job of marketing them, they&apos;re also doing a lot of cool things with the games in London and Mexico and Korea and Japan and so on. Not to mention all the investment they made into the World Baseball Classic, which saw huge returns especially in markets outside the US where that kind of World Cup competition goes insanely hard

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  @daryld149 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I’m not expecting him to look like a pro. But, Manfred throws a baseball like a toddler. 😂

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  @joshwilner5622 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Pitch clock alone has been one of the best changes to baseball ever so many people i know that hadnt watched baseball in years picked it up again bc of how much easier it is to watch the game with the quickened pace

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  @Robertoduran1106 · 1 year ago

  Pitch clock is the best rule change I can recall in sports.

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  @RJKilroy · 1 year ago

  I mean you gotta respect this guy for having the balls to challenge a narrative <i>over the internet</i>

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