Perfect Game How To Fix Baseball

May, 2009

Baseball's approach to fixing its problems is to say that baseball is a perfect game. We know it is a perfect game be­cause, after 150 years, infielders are still throwing out runners at first base by a single step.Suppose an actor could, for his own reasons, hold up a movie for, let's say, 90 seconds before he delivers the next line. What would that do to the movie? I know: It would make it a Merchant-Ivory production, but that was a rhetorical question. The point is that when you go to a baseb...