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Message: [QUOTE="RuffRuff, post: 5333418, member: 1268"] Generally takes the soul and art out of sports and makes it more transactional, more “perfect”. I’ve had this conversation 100x different ways. It starts early too, it’s how colleges recruit. It’s why when you watch a MLB game every players stance and mechanics looks similar, why every pitcher throws 95mph. Back in only 2004 a pitcher came in to start a playoff game with his heel tendon stapled the night before, and pitched with a bloody sock. Today a pitcher wouldn’t even attempt that and is instead taken out at 90 pitches automatically. The players are as talented and as fit as ever, but the sports themselves so much less theatric. [/QUOTE]