# @puckdotnews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DIW-tFcPOZu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73247099-puckdotnews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-12T19:57:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Puck (@puckdotnews) — https://gondola.cc/puckdotnews

## Caption

Depending on which side of the aisle your team sits on, torpedo bats are either the best thing to happen to baseball this season or an illegal advantage masterminded by the most villainous organization in all of sports. ⁠
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If you’re MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, however, torpedo bats are a net positive—the latest micro-innovation, after the pitch-clock, to add enthusiasm around a game that has fallen behind its peers in media hype and deal size.⁠
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“Major League Baseball is facing a complex streaming challenge: The league’s social audience is growing while the once-reliable R.S.N. business is collapsing, and cable partner ESPN is going away (at least for now). It seems like a good time to get creative,” Puck’s Julia Alexander writes.⁠
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Read Julia’s full dispatch, at the link in bio.⁠
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Photo: Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images⁠
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#MLB #Baseball #Sports #Media #TorpedoBats

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