Tuesday, October 28, 2008

heckuva job MLB

Games that start in the middle of the night. Games that never end. Baseball-hating "umpires" umpiring baseball. A commissioner who changes the rules in the middle of the series, unbeknownst to the players. Inviting the Tampa Bay Jesus Rays to participate. And at the end of it all, a chance that the Philadelphia Phillies might win a championship.

8 comments:

Smiff said...

Like everything else baseball, i blame YOU.

Fungster said...

This would all be moot if everyone had listened to the Fungster and built roofs on their stadiums. Just sayin'...

k-mad said...

Then why can't they play real cricket indoors? When they moved cricket indoors they had to dumb down the rules. There, I've run rings round you logically...

k-mad said...

I might add that indoor cricket is one of the greatest frauds in cricket history, possibly destroying the very fabric of cricket.

Smiff said...

Of course, Brain Dead Bud passes the buck and says it's Philly Skilly's fault:

He says he canvassed everyone involved – umpires, groundskeepers, managers, officials from both clubs – and had forecasts from three weather services (which he refused to name). “We were told at about 7:45 that there would be only one-tenth of an inch of rain between then and midnight or after,” Selig said. “So everybody in the room wanted to play.”

Fungster said...

1. Real cricket requires a really large pitch or field or ground. Much harder to get that indoors.

2. So they came up with a game called indoor cricket, distinct from outdoor cricket. Not nearly as popular as a result.

3. I don't think Cricket has a "commish" that can just change the rules whenever he wants to. It's a proper sport, with a proper board that makes proper decisions after proper deliberations. None of this "my call" crap. Americans call that "leadership". Normal people call it "dictatorship" and wonder why you don't want it for your president but you'll allow it just about everywhere else (see: Chicago).

4. Cricket has rules for such a situation that wouldn't have called for the intervention of the "commish" already in place. Baseball - dey just make the $#!+ up as they go along. I think the Republicans call that "legislating from the bench".

k-mad said...

Yet they play "real" cricket in places that have - literally - monsoon seasons? I could go on...

Returning to baseball: if I were commish, all Saturday-Sunday World Series games would be in the afternoon. LOCAL time. Quit letting FOX tell you how to run your business. Quit thinking a World Series game can't compete with Falcons-Lions for ratings. (Also: news flash: they have this thing called cable, which shows football from dawn to midnight on weekends.) Maybe, I dunno, let parents and kids watch entire ballgames together and shit.

Smiff said...

All you need to know: a troglodyte homunculus of the highest order is in charge of MLB. Except yoooge, mind-altering, endless, idiotic, phokking delays...