World Baseball Classic

6 hours ago, Tranquility Base said:

They also had replay and no pitch clock and no one seemed to complain.   But I guess only hardcore baseball fans are watching the WBC.

I think the pitch clock was really a no-brainer for MLB executives. Their sport was on a tragic decline in followers and viewership, and had to find some sort of way to begin attracting new fans. Almost every non-baseball fan will say "it is boring to watch" or "it takes too long" when asking them why they do not follow the sport. Ultimately, the MLB was in a very rough spot and basically had to option other than speeding the game up. 

The replay is a mixed perspective from me. I do believe that the MLB is one of the smoothest replay systems in sports today. There aren't excessive ones in each game, and the process of doing it doesn't feel like ages. However, I do believe that the display of sports world would be a lot better off without it. While saying this, with all of the different social media posts, the refs would be to blame almost every single close game because of a missed call. It feels that the replay system is to try and take some of that blame off officials, and encouraging more to officiate.