And I follow the Dodgers, so it's not as if no one I know anything about is involved.
This series sucks, and the playoffs weren't much better.
IMHO, baseball went seriously downhill when it started sounding like physics class. I don't want to hear about launch angles, spin rates, and velocity. Just because we invented all manner of whoopie-doo technology to analyze the ball's every move doesn't mean it should take over. Everything's about mechanics, with the goal that every ball goes over the fence. Base running is a lost art, as is strategic hitting with runners on. BORING.
Pitchers, yuk, they're for the most part bionic (the famous Tommy John Surgery). They change them every 5 innings at first, and more like twice per inning if it's close at the end, which it usually is, since there's no offense.
Then take the TV coverage... please. The announcers are brain damaged, and the commercials have lost all touch with sanity. Whazzis Google thing? Any respect I had left for that company departed during the league championship series, which they apparently bought, lock stock and ad space.
Hey Google, what's a wretched excess?
Now, in the World Serious, it's all IOT all the time. Am I the only one who hates the IOT? I don't want my toaster telling the whole Internet whether I left the bread in too long again. I'll pass on my enema bag sending me an e-mail when it's time to use it. I certainly don't want some Orwellian speaker lurking in the corner sucking in everything while waiting for me to ask it dumb questions. I must be the tiny Luddite fringe, because every info company you can think of seems to be advertising one of these, all with cute names.
Then you have a game go 18 innings........................
Baseball is a slow game and that helps to make it boring.
Maybe I shouldn't talk bad about baseball being boring since I watch professional bowling which, for most people, would be very boring. There are technical aspects to bowling that I like to watch such as the style of the bowler, the angles, revolutions of the ball, speed, as well as lane adjustments as the oil pattern deteriorates. Plus, the action on the lanes is faster than in baseball.