Coffee and a Script

The Tampa Bay Rays are a well-run organization with zero plans to elevate their budget, their outreach for superstars, or even their attempts to actually building a future site in a viable location. This all leaves me in a disinterested state of fandom purgatory that feels distant from my past supporting this team.

Now with MLB and MiLB closer than ever, maybe its time to install a summertime tournament that could spread the popularity of MLB to new areas as well as places that had been forgotten by time and the evolution of professional sports. It is time for MLB’s very own Eurosoccer-like tourney.

Baseball fans deserve better than what they’re seeing. But the current crop of owners, executives, and commissioners in baseball and beyond have done some severe damage to a sport that has so many opportunities to improve and grow.

Nintendo Switch Online has been a success story, but can clearly, easily be so so much more if Nintendo wanted to dive deeper into its past as well as the community of retro gamers playing older titles in different, creative ways.

If MLB wants to improve the flailing television ratings of the World Series, then maybe it should become a much longer journey towards the championship destination.

I don’t want a rematch, I want a wide-open race, and we have to find ways to ensure more voices are heard in the 2024 presidential race for the future of this politically-backwards country.

Expanded bracket of a notoriously-unpredictable sport will never produce the television ratings of the past. Evolving the game has been a hit, so why not evolve the way we view the product?

There is so much potential to the idea of dedicating a block of your overly long regular season to an in-season tournament. But if you aren’t going to fully commit to Euro-style madness, why bother trying?