Baseball Still Doesn’t Get It
A somewhat exciting baseball game was shown on television last night that lasted into the wee hours of the morning for us on the east coast. The MLB All Star Game went into extra innings with the American League once again winning with a sacrifice fly to right field that happen in the 15th inning. It was the homerun derby champion from one night ago that was the one to step on the plate and ended a baseball game that left a bad taste in the fans mouth once again. We did have a winner this time, but the game was looking at the last batter of the night and this was the only way a winner got determined. If Justin Morneau gets thrown out at home plate and the National League could have manage to sent the game into a 16th inning, that inning would not have happened.
Once again baseball had a problem and they have failed to correct it. They don’t understand that we don’t care that Brandon Webb and Scott Kazmir pitched on Sunday. The fans see a baseball game with a bunch of rich spoiled brats that can’t break a sweat and do a little work for us. We are tuning in to a game to watch the best players play and we want to see them play. We don’t want guys being saved so they can return to their teams all nice and healthy. We want to see action and we want to see the game winner to be determined on the field. If baseball wants to continue to show these mid-summer classics in the middle of the summer, the teams and players will have to understand that the All Stars for their respected teams are going there to play a baseball game and not to sit on the bench and party, while we fans are left holding the check.
Save your money and let’s teach baseball a lesson. Forget the plans you had made to go out to the ball park this summer or to buy MLB gear. Let’s save those hard-earned dollars for our gas tanks and show baseball we don’t need them. Let’s let them come to us with an offer we can’t refuse. Don’t pay these guys salaries, when they are not even willing to pitch more than 1 inning, because it’s only an exhibition game. It’s a real game to the fans with real stars that we want to see play. Ludwick’s diving catch in left field and Miguel Tejada’s sensational shortstop plays are what the fans are missing from these All Star Games, because the true stars don’t want to break a sweat or use this time to just rest up. We deserve much better than what baseball is giving us. I will not be spending any money on baseball, until they fix the problems needed. Baseball doesn’t care about us (the fans), so why should we care about them. I urge you to boycott Major League Baseball to send these guys a message, that the All Star Game of 2008 was NOT acceptable. Times are hard right now and our economy is in bad shape and we need to be spending and saving our money on the important issues of life and not to the people that make millions of dollars just so they can pull the rug out from under our feet whenever they choose to. Strike against MLB!
