Twitter Users Gave Us Their Best Ideas To #MakeBaseballExciting, Most Probably Aren’t Legal

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Another day, another superb trending hashtag on Twitter. Last night’s hashtag of choice was #MakeBaseballExciting, which was surely the result of baseball becoming relevant again seeing as how we have officially made our way into October.

ESPN may have recorded its best baseball television audience in a decade two days ago, but I failed statistics, giving me good reason to ignore the absurdity of it all and enjoying a night of Twitter ridiculousness. I may have a midterm in two hours, but Twitter is a trap, and I am thoroughly ensnared at the moment.

Drugs? Nudity? Explosives? Do Twitter users desire the deaths of America’s professional athletes? As always, Twitter left me with nothing but questions. Questions of a nature only the internet can provide. Questions that have you wondering if the majority of society has undiagnosed mental illnesses. If anything in that Petri dish of stupidity and questionable ethics is certain, the game could use some historical changes if the internet is any measure of opinion.

Rob Manfred is likely unaware of my existence, but if I were to throw Grandex’s deceivingly pathetic crew of lobbyists behind any suggestion listed above, I’d stick my money on the revamped “kiss cam.”

Very few activities are more American than a solid handy on the video board of a professional stadium. The mental image of two of St. Louis’ finest residents performing some hand-to-gland combat on the Jumbotron as I scarf down a half-frozen ballpark pretzel has me yearning for an extra inch of desk height. Besides, anyone who is opposed to some video board PDA is welcome to move to Philadelphia. They usually struggle to meet kiss cam qualifications.

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  1. Fratasaurus

    Baseball has been doing it right for the past 100 years.. maybe the average American needs to change.

    10 years ago at 9:52 am
    1. What Is Haze Prevention

      Exactly. Kids AND Parents go to games now and all they do is sit on their phones.

      10 years ago at 11:33 am
  2. Jameson Von Budweiser

    All you could come up with was two awful examples? Maybe you shoulda waited until after the mid-term for this riveting story, champ

    10 years ago at 9:55 am
  3. NightriderNoisewater

    Only thing that should be allowed is 5 minutes where the umpires and coaches fight after every game.

    10 years ago at 9:59 am
  4. NEIL_Armstrong

    Why don’t we try to make basketball exciting again? What’s fun about 3 ballhogs trying to show each other up while traveling every play?

    10 years ago at 10:04 am
  5. LazyRican

    Can’t we go back to the times were almost all the players were coked up or even playing under the influence of lsd? Ohh and also steroids because everyone loves homers

    10 years ago at 11:01 am
  6. Shoeless_bro_jackson69

    One way to make baseball exciting is actually understanding the game and appreciating how difficult it is to hit a 103 mph Aroldis Chapman heater that’s running in on your hands.

    10 years ago at 11:23 am
  7. daddyslittlegirl

    Really? I watched Mark Buehrle’s perfect game with my dad, that was extremely exciting. Why do we have to have people get blown or blown up to be entertained? Can’t we just appreciate the game for what it is?

    10 years ago at 12:16 pm
  8. Jim_Webb_2016

    Baseball has been dealing with this forever and the games keep getting longer not shorter. I have a feeling it will be fine. If anything concussions and the lack of them in baseball will keep it going for the next 100 years.

    10 years ago at 12:21 pm