Expansion & Realignment Can Save MLB | 20th and Blake: The Rockies Podcast

And it was a reminder of, and you've asked me to re-explain the premise of the magic beans every once in a

while.

I've realized over the course of this season, I've never fully slam dunked the point home the way I've meant to.

I feel like it's implied when I say, because it all feels like magic rules to me that don't make sense.

They feel like fairytale rules, right? Yeah.

Um, and I've mentioned before in all the fairy tales, Jack and the beanstalk, he gets three beans.

Aladdin gets three wishes.

It's almost always three.

So the fact that major league baseball went out of their way to do two, I was like, you're clearly trying to protect the umpires there.

But the big point that I've never actually said on this show is what is the reason a storyteller, a writer? Yeah.

We're talking literary critiques for less than three minutes.

What do we do? Right.

why not give Jack infinite magic beans? Why not give Aladdin infinite wishes? And the answer is because it would solve all the problems.

Well, you're trusting Aladdin and

Jack.

Well, sure.

You know what? Good point.

But right in a story, you need conflict.

If they could just use the magic whenever they want.

I would argue that in the strike zone, you don't need conflict.

You don't need it when Doug Eddings, who got one of these, I guess, from the...

I saw some headlines.

It was like, Major League Baseball sends clear message to Doug Eddings.

It was like, that what? He can...

mess up