MLB Draft Hard To Watch

The NFL draft is held in cities that have NFL teams  and are at sites where the public can attend.  They can get rowdy at times when ever a local team gets a pick and the fans either hate the pick or love it.  That is one of the reasons the NFL is so popular.  They try to cater to the people.  We all  know why the NFL is in the position it is in is gambling.  Sixteen games it  is easy to pull up your local paper and see that the Redskins are a three and a half point favorite over the Falcons this week .  Fantasy football once again is flourishing because it is easy to keep up with your team one day a week.

Baseball on the other hand is the so called leave the game alone we like it how it is and has always been.  If you are purist you love the game for what it is not  how much more it could be with changes.  Because games are every day unless you are a gamble-holic it is hard to keep up with every game every day and lay money down. Even fantasy is harder to keep up.

Baseball cherishes it's history.  Any baseball fanatic can tell you the all time hits leader and how many he hits he has.  Does anyone even know the all time NFL rusher and how many yards he has without google or NFL.com? Baseball hate changes.  They have fought tooth and nail on any replay while the NFL is making the extra point harder this year.  They try anything to make the game interesting while MLB thinks the history of the game is what makes it so enduring.

Major league baseball's draft is held in the studio of MLB.  It is set up to cater to TV or in baseball's case MLB.COM.  The NFL has ESPN and NFL.com all showing the same draft with the crowd  hollering and hooping in the back ground.  Great players from the past like John Smoltz of the Atlanta Braves are introduced to the camera to make the next pick with three people off camera clapping.

It is hard to watch that baseball draft unless you are waiting for a name you know to pop up.  It is so ho-hum it will put you to sleep waiting for the next pick.  There is so much excitement at the NFL draft that all the noise makes you forget that every thing you just heard about the player drafted you already heard 10 million times before.

I guess I am a purist in a way.  I would still like for MLB to have a fifth ump in a booth on all the cameras and any time there is an argument about a call let a team go to the replay booth.  Give them two red flags like the NFL coaches have and if they are wrong lose the next one or even lose one for the next game.

I think everyone would like to see a computer call balls and strikes and have the ump there to make call on plays at home.  If there is one place they truly need replay is second base.  I bet half the close plays at second at missed by the umps.

There are so many players picked in baseball it takes three days to do the draft.  They surely could go  into a live setting at some convention center the first night and let all the fans hoop and holler and  for the rest of the draft just flash it on the round by round draft tracker.  That's how I watched it. I couldn't take watching all day the second and third days.