At least the ESPN crew won’t spend innings 5 through 7 explaining to every fan still watching how terrible baseball is nowadays. Tell everyone how great bunts and weak contact the other way was 25 years ago.
Imagine if NFL announcers broke into a “do you think Favre or Ray Lewis would be sitting in that concussion tent right now?”. No, they would never contribute to boomer narratives like that and make their sport sound bad. Instead, NFL announcers are finding new ways to show new cool information to fans, calling in experts to convey the information and rules interpretations.