Still, every year companies make baseball games with the same flaw and people still buy the games, so maybe it's just me – after all, offense in baseball is like
sex in the advertising world: it sells. So, while I was complaining throughout the 1990s that the powers that be were ruining the game by allowing a combination of factors - juiced balls,
juiced players, and even juiced ballparks - to turn MLB into a Nintendo league, the league was making money hand over fist. I was in my twenties, but I was looking like a bitter old guy: “When I was a kid ... now that was REAL baseball!”
