After playing organized, professional baseball, America’s pastime, since 1869, the powers that be, whomever that be, decided that the gamehad become boring. And we all know the powers that be are the advertisers. Americans became too busy to watch baseball. And Americans apparently have developed shorter attention spans.
Baseball needed more action and needed to take up less time in people’s busy lives. And improve parking and transit to make it easier for fans to get into and out of the park. Why do they call it a “park”? This 
reporter still has no idea. The only thing even remotely resembling a park is the grass, which fans should never, EVER, set foot on unless they want large security guards to tackle them and haul them off to the bowels of the “park.”
By speeding up the game and creating more action, the excitement of seeing one pitcher pitching eight or nine innings, allowing just one or two runs, is a thing of the past. Now we’ve got three, or four, or five pitchers giving up six, seven, or eight runs in dramatically less time. They’ve shaved a whole thirty minutes off the average game.
And the big bonus of this new strategy is that busy fathers can now rush to the game, sons in tow, and enjoy a faster, more action-packed game of baseball, spending less while still getting credit and checking it off the good father list! “Spent time with the kid, check.”
