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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
MLB owners should listen to Selig
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Time and again, Bud Selig has urged baseball owners to shorten the regular season, and time again, they’ve essentially told the commissioner, who is better than you think, to shove a Louisville Slugger down his throat.
A shorter regular season would mean the World Series wouldn’t end near November. It also would mean fewer pennies in the owners’ pockets, and that’s the problem.
If you don’t know by now, it’s all about money in professional sports when it comes to your average owner.
So baseball is getting what it deserves, which means this World Series is nearly as brutal as the 1994 World Series.
That’s right. There was no World Series back then, because of the Mother of All Work Stoppages. This World Series involves Mother Nature, period, and this was so unnecessary.
All baseball had to do was listen to Selig and do something such as go from 162 games to 154 in the regular season. Then the division series would begin no later than the last week of September instead of early October. Then you wouldn’t have what you have now: A World Series featuring television ratings dropping as fast as the temperature in Philadelphia.
With game-time temperatures slated for the low 40s (with the wind-chill factor in the upper 20s) tonight, the Phillies are scheduled to hit in the bottom of the sixth inning during their suspended Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Rays.
And did I mention the possibility of rain and snow?
If not shorten the regular season, then get rid of the division series and all of those wild cards. Oh, that’s right. Then the owners would lose more revenue.
What a mess.
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