The staggering unpredictability of Major League Baseball means that predicting any part of it can make one look like the dumbest person to have ever lived (and, occasionally, like a terrifying oracle who must be destroyed by a thousand armies), but we’re all here for baseball because of the drama. Doesn’t matter if it’s coming from on the field or off, we really, really crave conflict and intrigue and bullpen carts
... magnificent. And dumb. But if we didn’t have the drama (which, admittedly, can only ever reach 80% of the drama of the NBA), then it wouldn’t feel like baseball.