Someone has to get rid of Rob Manfred... NOW, please!!!

I don't know what the Hell Rob Manfred is trying to do to the sport of baseball.  I and my anonymous friend, a baseball historian who is about to swear off the present game, have had several discussions the last few days about two stories about the rules of baseball:  One that's going to happen starting this year, and something completely out of left field that might soon after...

• The pace of play rules are going to be strengthened this year, against the wishes of the MLBPA.  The main impetus this year appears to be pitching mound visits.  Limit of six for the game, catchers' visits count.

Is it any secret to ANYBODY that Manfred wants pitching to suck to the level of incompetence, so that every game turns into a Home Run Derby-esque Game 5 of the World Series from last year's rigged farce?

Look, I get people don't want games five hours long and all that shit, but the facts are facts:  Rob Manfred has a vision of baseball that is offensive, and offensive to the history and traditions of the game, where offense might get you there, but pitching and defense will usually make the final say on the matter.

• Of course, this might be blown away by a reported discussion about changing the entire situation with respect to the rules of the game.  CBS Sports and the Rich Eisen Show reported yesterday that there are discussions which, if they come to fruition, may allow the trailing team in a baseball game in the 9th inning to bat any three players they want to start the 9th inning. 

WHAT??

And the reasoning is even worse!

"The unbelievably flawed rationale, via a text Eisen received: "No other sport has the best players sitting on the bench in the final minutes of a game. Imagine LeBron [James] or Tom Brady or Sidney Crosby or [Cristiano] Ronaldo watching on the sidelines.""

This IDIOT masquerading as a Commissioner wants to blow up the entire sport, once and for all, and replace it with Home Run Derby.

He knows the regular American has the intelligence of a kumquat, the attention span of a flea, and the perspective of a Pakled.

So he wants to outdo them on all three counts!

Oh...  SHIT.