World Baseball Classic
The World Baseball Classic. 16 of the best baseball-playing nations in the world, competing for 3 weeks for the title of "World Champion" for the next 3 years. The tournament has incredible potential, and only gets better every time it rolls around. However, its main purpose isn't to put on a prestigious playoff-style tournament. Its purpose is to promote the game of baseball, and the MLB, to a world wide audience. While choosing to market the tournament more as a regular event every four years, the MLB misses out on the tournament being the key to something way bigger. See, the MLB has a few issues reaching the younger demographic of North American fans. Since the MLB has existed for such a long time, the tradition of unwritten rules hasn't lent itself to much change. And because of this, most fans of the MLB are 40+. Since the tradition of unwritten rules are so steep in the league, the only time exuberant play and emotion is allowed is during the Postseason an...
