A fantastic article by Jeff Passan who takes a much more mature take than I ever would….but my take is “Win the Game, Destroy the Sport.” Read it.
What’s clear is that four-hour World Series games that don’t have high drama aren’t exactly digestible for a young generation that craves entertainment delivering constant hits of dopamine and oxytocin. That’s not exactly baseball, and that’s certainly not self-aware baseball, which is a shame, because the underpinning of the latter – that every single decision in a game is capable of sinking you, so don’t screw up – is inherently exciting. So far, it just hasn’t played that way. Game 1 was merely a prelude
Source: World Series: Get ready for long games, lot of pitchers, and a lot of strikeouts