Filed under: Baseball, No dh | Tags: Baseball, Dodgers, Interleague Play, Los Angeles, No dh
Interleague play, perhaps the worst idea in baseball since the 1975 Chicago White Sox tried Bermuda shorts instead of pants (it happened, look it up). I despise interleague play with a passion that is real and fervent. Who in the hell wants to watch the Mariners and the Padres? (Or the Mariners or the Padres for that matter?) Baseball, as a game, is largely untouchedover the past 100 years. The rules are essentially the same, the bases are the same distance, we have more teams and more divisions, we have a wild card now (I didn’t think it would work but it has and I actually like it). However, I draw the line at interleague play! Enough is enough. I could truly give a damn about what some network executive thinks would be a “neat” idea or the next brilliant idea from Alan H. “Bud” Selig, the same man who brought you home field advantage in the World Series determined by the All-Star game a.k.a. the Red Sox and Yankees against the Cubs (sorry Bryan, but it’s true, Cubs fans are the NL equivalent of BoSox fans).
To think that my Dodgers would have to stoop to the level of going to Disneyland; sorry, I mean to play the Angels in Anaheim. To have to insert a DH into the lineup, to have play on the same field as AL swine, to have to listen to the cheers of people who think that the pitcher still having to bat, a.k.a. play baseball, as a quaint idea. Interleague play destroys the integrity of the game. For 90+ years one of the things that made baseball unique was the fact that it was impossible for the two teams that played each other in the World Series to have met in the regular season. Now, that is no more. Having to watch the Dodgers play in an AL stadium by their rules is like having to listen to listen to Bach or Mozart, or the Stones or Zeppelin (Steven Kellog and the Sixers accepted) on the Kazoo. But alas Bud didn’t ask me, he asked the masses and the networks. These are the same people that brought you “Survivor” and Britney Spears, so clearly, they are an enlightened and brilliant group capable of great vision and foresight. So I propose a new amendment to the Constitution: No interleague play!! This amendment will follow those of the great “Crash” Davis, banning AstroTurf and the DH.
I may be shouting at the rain and my voice will probably not be heard over the din of the masses, but let it not be said that I did not shout.
-Dodgerdave
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