So, now when a sport tweaks things to increase scoring and/or implement safety measures, that is "radical"? Come on... if you're gonna label any significant tweak as "radical", well, why even use the word at all?
No sane person is gonna impose radical change on a functioning enterprise.... it's just not gonna happen.... because it *should not* happen. Radical change is just that: radical. Show me an instance in *any* kind of enterprise which is not about to fold where radical change has been implemented at all, let alone for the better. I can't think of one. AFAIK, nobody else can either. Because people in charge of successful enterprises aren't nuts.
To advocate radical change on a functioning enterprise just because it *might* work is reckless and irresponsible.
You're the one using the word, not me. I said no one knows if change is good or bad, and not making it for fear of it being bad, or just the unknown in general is dumb. Is there anything stopping changing something back if it doesn't work well? Is the world going to implode if it doesn't go well?
You decided to add the term radical. Just because you are resistant to change doesn't mean that other people feel that way as well, so don't project their feelings onto others.
Again, you are the one throwing out the terms. No one said to change things for no reason what so ever. I believe the hypothetical discussion started because people AREN'T completely happy with the game and would like to see some changes. I'm guessing the data behind that is that baseball which used to be "America's Sport" has lagged behind football, and is falling more in line with Basketball, Golf, NASCAR and other sports or "sports". So if less people are playing, and watching and coming out to watch, then maybe there is a problem.
Just remember not to point it at me, I at no point in any of this have even said if I was in favor of the change or not. My point is that nothing has to stay the way it is. Ever. Change can be bad. Change can be good. But the unknown will never get known without trying.