Everyone At Sports Illustrated Loves Short Baseball

The Game 5 Bud Selig-Will-He-Or-Won't-He-Clusterf--k is over now, and we're already looking ahead. Let's finish this thing out, huh? No rain! Probably!

Sure, baseball kinda-sorta embarrassed itself the other night, but that's over now. It's time to move on, to look on the bright side -- people with ADD will be able to watch the World Series now!

Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci and John Donovan -- who apparently did not coordinate their columns today -- both agree:

Fox should be working overtime to promote this game. It is an unprecedented situation with the urgency you never get from baseball. It can guarantee viewers that the game, if not the entire World Series, will be decided in the late innings -- without asking anyone to invest the time of watching the first two-thirds of the game. And there's yet another bright side to what people thought was a mess: Kids can watch the end of the game on a school night (assuming no rain delays or extra innings). The first suspended game in World Series history is not bad at all for baseball.

It's not a bad argument, but it's also a slippery slop. Before you know it, our National Pastime That Everybody Rips On All The Time will be shot in 10-minute segments and hosted on Vimeo. Complimentary 10 mg Adderall tablets will passed out at games. If plays are particularly good, they will earn endless reblogs. Is that what you want, Tom Verducci?