Dear baseball:

I write this to you from a place of love.

But.

You need to hire some goddamned game designers.

Like, now.

A Game Design Perspective on Baseball's New Instant Replay Proposal

Here are some basic rules of game design:

• Simple and elegant is always better than complicated and filled with special cases.
• Be aware of unintended consequences
• Playtest and prototype the hell out of things before you release them to your audience
• Don't train your players to do one thing, and then unexpectedly turn around and penalize them for doing what you've taught them to