Baseball is beautiful. Don't wreck it.

There's a moronic plan to "fix" baseball by totally ruining it. Please, don't.

Daniel Murphy of the Washington Nationals.
(Image credit: Rob Carr/Getty Images)

I love baseball. But even I must admit that sometimes baseball is too slow.

Last year, the average Major League Baseball game took 3 hours and 5 minutes — almost 10 minutes longer than the (already very long) 2:56 average of the 2015 season. In trying to address the game's snail's pace, Minor League Baseball (a.k.a. MLB's Petri dish for terrible ideas) announced new rules and procedures last week. While many were perfectly reasonable, if not overdue (there is no reason to allow mound visits for the obvious purpose of buying time for relief pitchers to warm up), there was one change people universally agreed was extremely, exceptionally terrible: the extra innings rule.

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.