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Baseball is evolving. You'll get over it.That's the blunt way to say that none of either from ownersor players would keep fans from watching and enjoying baseball. I know you think they will, but they won't.Sure, you'll complain and tweet, but nothing will ultimatelychange. You'll still be the same fan you were last season and season before that and the season before that.You'll accept baseball with the DH in both leagues. Ben Gamel Jersey You'll accept it with a 20-second pitch clock. You'll acceptit with batter limits for pitchers. You'll acceptit pretty much no matter what.Because baseball has always evolved, and you've always adapted.MORE: Don't think I'm talking down here. I've been skeptical of changes in the past, but I've always moved on. Just like you. Just likealmost all fans.To pretend the game has stayed unchanged in any significant way over the decadesis to romanticize things to the point of revisionist history. You Burch Smith Jersey were a fan when there were 26 (or fewer)teams and four divisions. You were a fanwhen there were 30 teams and six divisions. You were a fan during the Steroid Era. You're a fan after. You were a fanwhen the All-Star Game was an exhibition. You've been a fan when it's not. You were a fanwith one wild-card team. You're a fan with two. You were a fanbefore replay. You're a fanafter.Because baseball has always evolved, and you've always adapted.True, the game'sevolution has sometimes irked you, and sometimes even made you outright mad, but you've always Jim Gantner Jersey gotten over it.This isn't an endorsement of any proposal (thoughI am pro-DH). It's just to say that, if you're a baseball fan, you're probably more willing to forgive and accept thanyou realize.Nothing will change now, no matter which proposalgains approval. You'll get over it because you're first and foremost abaseball fan, andthe e sence of the sport has never changed: Pitch the ball, hit the ball, try to score runs.The beauty of baseballisn't inrules or technicalities.The Hernan Perez Jersey beauty of the game isn't in pitchers hitting, or the time between pitches,or in the distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate. The beauty is in the game itself:the liner off the bat,the diving catch, the runner cro sing the plate.There will still be dominant pitchers if the mound moves back a few inches. There will still be late-inning drama if a reliever is forced to face three at least three batters. You'll still enjoy watching your team hit, even if one of the hitters isn't a pitcher.FOSTER: | GATTO: When changes come, theinitial complaints are loud butthe noise eventually goesaway and we're left with a simple idea: That's just baseball.Because baseball has always evolved, and you Corey Knebel Jersey 've always adapted.The noisehas come many times throughout baseball history."I'll never watch another game!""I won't enjoy this!""I won't spend another dollar."Gue s what: You watched another game, you enjoyed it and you spent another dollar.So with or without a universal DH, with or without the mound at 60 feet 6 inches, with or without a pitch clock, Travis Shaw Jersey and dare I say with or without a runner at second base to start extra innings, you'll still watch andyou'll still enjoy it.It's what baseball fans do.Because baseball has always evolved, and you've always adapted.