--- title: Baseballl Must Change If It Wants to Survive description: Why baseball must change if it wants to survive, here’s how Facebook made your birthday into a business and 3 more ideas canonical: https://time.com/4430474/why-baseball-must-change-if-it-wants-to-stay-relevant/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-29T14:11:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:39.041Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Baseball Must Change If It Wants to Stay Relevant og:description: And 4 more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4430474/why-baseball-must-change-if-it-wants-to-stay-relevant/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Baseball Must Change If It Wants to Stay Relevant twitter:description: And 4 more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Baseball Must Change If It Wants to Stay Relevant by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 29, 2016 2:11 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 29, 2016 2:11 PM UTC **1\.** [**Why baseball must change if it wants to survive.**](http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/07/26/mlb-schedule-future-shorter-season) By Tom Verducci in Sports Illustrated **2\.** [**Here’s how Facebook made your birthday into a business.**](https://theringer.com/facebook-birthdays-business-5ddb9d73732f#.hdo3fit61) By Molly McHugh in the Ringer **3\.** [**This temporary tattoo will tell you if you’ve had too much to drink.**](http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/temporary-tattoo-keeps-tab-on-alcohol-intake) By Prachi Patel in IEEE Spectrum **4\.** [**Could the next source of powerful medicine be — in our nostrils?**](http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36910766) By James Gallagher at the BBC **5\.** [**Can a video game make you depressed — in a good way?**](http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/can-a-video-game-make-you-depressed-in-a-good-way/70631) By Fiona Zublin in Ozy  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4430474/why-baseball-must-change-if-it-wants-to-stay-relevant/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4430474/why-baseball-must-change-if-it-wants-to-stay-relevant/"},"headline":"Why Baseball Must Change If It Wants to Stay Relevant","datePublished":"2016-07-29T14:11:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:39.041Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4430474/why-baseball-must-change-if-it-wants-to-stay-relevant/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","Alcohol","Video Games","Baseball","facebook"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4430474/why-baseball-must-change-if-it-wants-to-stay-relevant/","name":"Why Baseball Must Change If It Wants to Stay Relevant"}}]}] ```