IDK. Seems peculiar to me. Baseball is dying, they need to breath new life and what better way than use record breaking feats. I am a baseball fan(evil empire).
It is a sad state, that baseball and boxing are slowly going into that goodnight. UFC, football, basket ball, and hockey are making the push for the lime light. I listen to a alot of radio and basketball news was going on still until late July, and Football new started in late August. So Baseball had a whooping half a month of exclusive coverage(it pissed me off). Baseball and boxing promoters need to step up their game or they are going to lose their games. Period.