MITCHELL BLATT

Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally arrived! Yesterday, Major League Baseball officially opened it’s season! Coincidentally, I was stuck at the Chicago-O’Hare airport waiting 6 hours for a flight back to Cleveland. That after my flight from San Francisco to Chicago was delayed by an hour, my connecting flight was canceled, and I waited along with 91 other people on standby for another flight I missed.

Why is this relevent? Because Bud Selig’s MLB schedule to open the season has reflected United Airlines flight schedules in how both make absolutely no sense. (Hey, they even had two games canceled!) Yesterday was opening day, but there had already been three regular season games played before then.

Boston and Oakland went to Japan on March 25 to play the first two reqular season games just so Selig could promote his Japanese players like Dice-K in their home country.

Then they came back to play more preseason games, not just in Arizona and Florida, but in hometown stadiums. How do you think the A’s feel after playing games that count overseas then coming back to play games that don’t matter. Baseball is a game of streaks; to win you have to stay consistent and get into a groove. How’s it feel playing games on the other side of the earth then coming back to play exhibition games?

You know, if they wanted to put some time between the A’s and Sox’s next series for travel, they could have just had them take a few days off rather than play in front of crowds in San Fran and Los Angeles, respectively, that didn’t care about the games.

On March 30, they had another regular season game one day before opening day, that the Nationals won 3-2 over the Braves.

The outsourcing of American sports and the promotional circuses they use to open a season are getting tiresome. They only serve to further the disillusionment of the American sports fan. Opening day used to mean something. Now it’s just a bunch more games in a season that has already started on foreign soil.

Hey Bud, keep pondering.

Maybe next year you will come up with a really great idea to open the season.

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