Hey, Rob Manfred! Don’t ever take away MLB’s long extra-inning games

Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty ImagesOver the last couple of weeks I’ve been examining some of the things Jayson Stark of The Athletic says could happen in Major League Baseball over the next decade.

One of those changes, he says, might be the elimination of long extra-inning games:

We’re sensing increasing momentum toward some sort of rule change that will pretty much pull the plug on those extra-inning games that go on and on and on and on, wreaking havoc on box scores, million-dollar arms and roster construction from the big leagues to the hinterlands.

So what’s coming? Most likely, it’s the adaption of the minor-league extra-inning rule, in which all extra innings begin with a runner on…