Major League Baseball passed the point of no return on Friday.

Intellectual property, collective brainpower, superior data – all were chucked into a dumpster by MLB’s competition committee.

Baseball, sweet baseball, that timeless sport without a clock, a glorious afternoon spent without a care in the world – this pastoral, time-honored ritual passed down from father to son, generation to generation - was unscrupulously ruined in the service of satisfying TV partners and hooking TikTok-obsessed youth to care about a pastime on the verge of being surpassed by pickleball.