Rich, am I to read your take on MLB’s efforts to speed up and modernize the game to mean you’d support comprehensive baseball reform?

Can’t say I agree — I think this is one issue where I count myself and George Will as the same kind of conservative. Gradual, cultural reform to speed up the game, rather than a technocratic program, won’t undo its secular decline in popularity, but I’m not sure there’s anything tolerable that would.