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Against endless tweaking: Keep baseball from becoming football

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Position players pitching is a fun part of the game. Of course they want to change it

George Will, for whom I have a soft spot despite my inimical opposition to the cornerstones of his life (Cubs baseball, Republicanism, General Dweebishness) has a really good line about how football combines the two worst aspects of American life: violence and committee meetings. He was quipping about huddles, of course, but he was also on to something particularly grim about the sport — the way every aspect of the game swirls around the rules.

Football is weird in that sense.