Major League Baseball has fundamentally changed the game to appeal to an addle-brained generation that gets its info in less than 60 seconds, in 280 characters, or through a filtered picture of an illusory life. It has not and will not work. Like the guy who changes himself to get the girl, all that he has done is lose her respect and ultimately lose respect in himself. The guy who looks within himself, finds, and amplifies the things that make him unique, is the guy who truly gets the girl — a lesson MLB refuses to learn.
To learn this lesson would mean that MLB needs to look within itself and find the things that make it uniquely special, things that no other sport can provide, and then amplify them to the audience it so desperately wants.