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Interleague Play Go Away

Posted by pauliesplatform on July 2, 2008

I know it’s not going to happen but baseball needs to end the interleague play experiment right now. Yeah, I know its all about the money and that’s why it will keep going but from a pure game standpoint this is an exercise in futility. You want Exhibit A as to why? Try this on for size: Can someone explain to me how in the rotating division setup you have the AL East playing the NL Central this year and neither the Red Sox or Yankees played the Cubs? I mean, come on, that’s a joke. The Cubs still haven’t visited Fenway Park since this fiasco began!!! Now does that make any sense?? I know as a big baseball fan that it makes zero sense to me. Red Sox or Yankees vs the Cubs would actually be something people would want to see. Instead we are treated to such gems as Red Sox-Astros and Yankees-Pirates. If the intent is to give fans something different then schedule the right teams against each other when the division alignments match up. But there doesn’t even seem to be division alignment anymore. For example, this year it was AL East-NL Central yet the Red Sox played Arizona (NL West) and Philadelphia (NL East) while the Yankees played San Diego (NL West) The Yankees didn’t even play the Cardinals!! I don’t understand this scheduling at all. It makes no sense and simply sends teams back and forth across the country for no good reason. It’s time to go back to tradition so the World Series has more drama to it. It actually might boost viewership if in the Series we get to see something we didn’t already see during the season. But that would be logical and Bud Selig and his cronies certainly have little of that at their disposal. But they have plenty of money as they continue to kowtow to their TV partners at ESPN and FOX. Interleague play exists only to rake in TV cash and promote inner-city or state rivalries such as Yankees-Mets, Reds-Indians and White Sox-Cubs. For the rest of the teams with no natural rival, it is just a forced entity that got tired long ago. Please end the madness now, Bud, for the good of the game. Yeah, again, I know. It ain’t happening.

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