Apr 5, 2010

isn't opening day something special?

We've endured months of snow; record breaking cloudy-sunless days; a 5-11 football season; a VERY long regular NBA season (still not done); but now summer is here!!  Tribe and others open the MLB season today and everyone of importance is tied for first place!  All is well for now and please make the call:   "PLAY BALL!!"  Let's go Tribe!!!

Apr 1, 2010

wouldn't you want to play Commissioner of Baseball? Part IV

Now this one is a no-brainer (kinda fits with Selig-huh!) get rid of the All-Star Game winner getting World Series Home Games!  For crying out loud Bud (I forgot, there is no crying in baseball, but..) the All-Star Game is an EXHIBITION GAME!!!!  Do you see the NFL having the preceding year's Pro-Bowl say who gets the Super Bowl?  Ahhhh....NO!  How about the NBA's All-Star Game love fest??? Ahhhhh....NO AGAIN!! Then why is MLB so STUPID to have an important league event (World Series home field) possibly determined by someone representing a team that has been out of the race since opening day (yeah, I could be looking at my young Wahoos!!)?  As much as I don't, or didn't like the home team being alternated every other year, at least that had nothing to do with a made up challenge.  Go back to 1971, Pete Rose v. Ray Fosse.  What if (then it was a BIG WHAT IF) the Tribe was in contention for the WS and because Charlie Hustle took out Fosse and the NL won, home field would have been Cincy and, and w/o the injured Tribe backstop.  Bud, you care about the game, I know I hear your passion on the Mike and Mike Show, but maybe it is time to go back to selling cars.  Either go back to the old way, or find a new way to determine home team, but whatever it will be, it has to be better than attaching it to a meaningless mid-summer game.