This Week’s Baseball Insanity Is the Perfect Scandal for Our Age

So there are football games this weekend?

Yes, you can be forgiven if the NFL's conference championship games on Sunday have suddenly slipped your mind. Somehow, talk of baseball trash cans and buzzers and burner accounts have knocked football off the front page on the eve of the second-most important day for America's most popular sport.

Baseball, America's slog of a national pastime, has been locked in a years-long battle to win the hearts of digitally distracted youth.