Is action & scoring everything Manfred & TV make it out to be?

Saturday I sat through 8 hours of two games that could not have been more opposite. The first went 15 innings in a scoreless tie, won by a rookie hitting a walk-off homer. The second only went 9 innings, but was cram full of offense, 10-9, with all the excitement of one team coming back from a 7-run deficit and the entertaining side-bar of the remote "rally shoe" antics feeding into it. Call me a curmudgeon, but the first had the feel of a crisp cliff-hanger; the second a reminder of Casey Stengel's infamous quote about the expansion Mets' team: "Can anyone here play this game?". And without seeing the TV-ratings yet, I suspect they lost most of their audience when Toronto ran up a 7-run lead.

All I know is I was so exhausted I had to leave the next two games recorded for future viewing.