Baseball in December
Monday, October 19, 2009 at 8:23PM Is it just me or are the baseball playoffs going further into the fall then normal? I don't remember seeing Sid Bream in a ski mask while the Braves showed their postseason futility in the 90's. Not that they make ski masks for heads like ole' Sid's. It was like a giant Coors Light can with a mustache.
Seriously though, what's the reason for the never-ending baseball season? We all know that 90 percent of baseball fans checkout once NFL training camp hits anyway. I was on my couch Monday night, while two MLB playoff games were on (1 in extra innings), and decided to watch the meaningless week 6 Broncos @ Chargers showdown. Sorry baseball, something's gotta change.
Maybe we could shorten the season to 100 games. Are the last two months really necessary? Sure the Rockies would never make the playoffs and Ryan Howard's numbers would be horrific, but I look at it another way ... at least the Mets would have less time to blow a 7 game lead.
Another problem is going to arise when you get a Colorado/Detroit World Series and have to cancel game one twelve times because of snow. Then we've got baseball in December and it's so cold Jim Leyland's arthritis won't allow him to chew gum. The only way to conclude the series is to move it to Miami, where no one watches the World Series even if the Marlins are in it, so attendance will be somewhere around 652 a game. What a mess.
And while I'm talking about Monday night, why does Jon Gruden look like he has a robotic arm in the pre-game booth analysis? Weird.
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