"... the story of baseball is that of a sport destroying itself..."

This would also make a nice title for this post or really just a subtitle after MLB, like "MLB: A Sport Destroying Itself"

For what its worth (not much), I dropped my Sunday Ticket and my entire Directv package because the NFL added an extra team from each conference to the playoffs. I even told the Directv salesman that the regular season in the NFL is hardly worth watching now.