Attendance and interest in MLB keeps going down and baseball keeps running headlong to its destruction. The game is not even affordable to other than the most wealthy with all of the high dollar training and "gurus", showcase after showcase, camp after camp, tournament after tournament. One recent article noted how few youths can actually afford to play sports anymore. Travel leagues destroyed Little League and made children's baseball into a money, time and life sucking monster demanding parents drag the other kids on hours long trips to watch one kid all weekend while laying out thousands and thousands of dollars on travel, lodging, food, entertainment and lesson after lesson.
The "everyman" aspect of the game has been removed. The grittiness of the game has gone away and been replaced with a spectacle. Baseball men are replaced by number crunching nerds and statistics that call for 5 man shifts to overload one side of the field. And, baseball thinks it should further dehumanize the game with auto-umps? A game that has sustained itself for 100 years can't get out of its own destructive path.