It’s over.
Baseball season is over.
Life now becomes just a sad, passionless existence, until
spring arrives.
Try as I might, though I was certainly partisan for the
Cardinals in the World Series, I can’t hate the Red Sox. Since they’ve broken the Curse, the Red Sox
are every bit the big spending, pointlessly game lengthening bunch of bastards
that the Yankees are, but they’re not a bad bunch of guys. Somehow even now, the franchise has an
inherent charm to it, in spite becoming indistinguishable from the enemy of all
baseball (again, the Yankees).
You have applaud the Red Sox move to rid themselves of
another self-inflicted Curse last year, by getting rid of Bobby Valentine and
unloading a bunch overpaid, cancerous players on to those dimwitted Dodgers
(enemy of all baseball in training).
Certainly they made some great pickups in the off season, such as Mike
Napoli and Kogi Uehara, vital contributors to the team. Yeah, the Rangers only brushed those guys off
their team like lint, but I’m not bitter or anything.
I fear that this World Series victory may somehow validate
American League East style baseball and cause it to spread. You know, the batter OCD, fouling off a
million pitches, the pitchers deliberating over each pitch like it’s of
national importance, the reason why everyone says that the baseball is
boring. All it takes to create a non-fan
for life is to show a potential new fan a Yankees-Red Sox game. Couple this with instant replay and you’ve
got four-hour nine-inning baseball on a daily basis, whether the Yankees and
Red Sox playing each other or not. Soon,
more teams while have the potential of hitting a 0.0 TV rating like the Astros
got this year for a game.
I’d like to thank ESPN for their tremendous post World
Series coverage. Why just today, I was
listening to Colin Cowherd talking to John Lester. Their entire conversation focused on whether
World Series MVP, David Ortiz, was doing steroids or not. That’s just feel-good coverage there. Good thing Colin wasn’t talking to me. “I’m glad we’re just discussing PED’s in my
sport, as opposed to the murderers and thugs in the NBA and NFL.” Cue apoplectic fit from the host. And one last thing while we’re on the subject
of the media, goodbye forever Tim McCarver.
Feel free to take your overbearing, useless opinions and Joe Buck with
you.
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