KAISER SELIG’S TRAVELLING FREAK SHOW of BASEBALLERS

MLB has decided that a west coast team and an east coast team need only 18 hours between starting times for playoff games. There’s just not enough time for common sense when there is the option of competing for ratings and money. To ensure that Bud Selig can blame the A’s for a poor TV rating, he has decided that Game 1 of the ALDS should be at 7:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. In a matchup pitting Pedro Martinez versus Tim Hudson, it is essential that the majority of the east coast be asleep by the third inning.

To make matters more interesting, Kaiser Selig has decided that the usually festivities of a playoff game have good nutritional value. This must be why the A’s and Red Sox will finish game one, probably around 10:30 (playoff game in prime time = extra commercials). The players will shower, talk to the media and probably leave the Network Associates Coliseum sometime around 11:30 or midnight. Then, the teams will fight morning traffic to report to the Net around 8:00 am for their 1:00 PM start time.

That’s good thinking there, Kaiser. While you’re at it, why not make the teams spend the night on the outfield grass and charge admission; say two bits a gander? Four bits to get a look at them eating their vittles.

MLB has screwed up their playoff system for the umpteenth time. They have game fives culminating on a Sunday and competing against the NFL and game fours competing against College Football. At least we don’t have to sit through Mary Kate and Ashley commercials on ABC Family this year.