I was planning on writing about this anyway on Wednesday – but then Steve tweeted so I pushed it back a day – but much thanks to Howie Rose for illustrating the point.
Almost daily, the Mets will tweet something like this:
….faceless guys you’ve never heard of replacing faceless guys you’ve never heard of.
When I got into baseball, the Mets may have sucked, but at least it was a consistent group of guys who sucked together. Now it’s Vulgar Pete, a guy who disrespected Mets fans, and random reliever of the day.
Howie Rose must have noticed something similar because he tweeted:
36 different pitchers? What are we even doing? Why would I watch this? I know the old joke about rooting for the laundry, but you can’t even do that now because Steve and Alex messed that up with all the uniform variants.
This sport is a bad product. It’s probably unfixable now unless someone wants to make draconian rule changes (like if you pitch you have to stay on the roster for x days). The nerds came in and exploited all the flaws (much like what is happening in politics right now) and broke the system.