Subject: October Hot Dogs

A few months back you said something akin to we would be more likely to be eating Fenway dogs than
Yankee dogs come October.... just finished watching the Yanks beat the A's, and the Sox are nowhere in sight.
Didn't they finish around 16 games back of the Yankees?

Time will tell if the Yankees can go on to win the Series, but I had to call you on the Sox prediction.
 

Yes, and isn't it disgusting?
Looks like it's going to be the Yankees - again, against the Braves - again.

This isn't baseball.
This is checkbook wrestling between Steinbrenner and Turner.
This is runaway capitalism at the expense of sport.

The owners with the biggest checkbooks win the most games.
If I had a staff, I'd know if baseball has a salary cap - I'm guessing they don't.
Football has a salary cap and a draft system that makes it extremely difficult
for a team to win back-to-back Super Bowls.
 

That isn't baseball.
This is the guy who owns the ball and bat winning every game.

Next year Barry Bonds is for sale.
No doubt, Steinbrenner will purchase Bonds and get 60 extra home runs for the Yankees.
This is New York's power and influence against the power and influence of smaller markets.

If Bill Gates liked baseball, the Seattle Mariners would win 20 straight pennants.
Is that baseball?

Steinbrenner (A Republican) buys ball players like slaves - and they produce.

Compare it to college football:
If Oklahoma bought the best players from Nebraska, Miami and Florida - every year - they'd
win every game by 70 points and college football would be as worthless as pro baseball.

Why should they even bother to play the regular season games?
Playing the regular season has become horsehide masturbation - nothing more.
Why not just have Atlanta play New York seven games and call it quits?

Baseball exists to generate income for the big TV markets - that's it.
TV controls the money and the Northeast owns the most TVs.
The TVs in the Northeast want to see the Yankees win, so checks are written.

Baseball as sport no longer exists.
Baseball has become another whore - like the news media.
Generating cash is the primary goal and if a ball game breaks out - well, that's a bonus.

The Yankees have already won, just like last year and the year before.
It has already been decided.
It's in the script.
The trick is making it look like a different outcome is possible.

This isn't baseball.
It's as fixed as the Grammy Awards.
Do you think Britney Spears and N Sync deserved their Grammy nominations?
Of course they didn't, but the corporate advertisers demanded they be nominated so
the kids would watch and buy more products from the sponsors of a fixed and crooked show.

This isn't baseball.
It's as fixed as the Miss America Pageant.
Do you think it's a coincidence that California, New York, Texas and Florida
always have a finalist in the Miss America Top ten, and then the Top Five?

If the Top Five Miss America finalists were Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Kentucky and Rhode Island,
tens of millions of TVs would switch channels and revenue would be lost.

This isn't baseball.
It's as fixed as the election that put Bush in the White House.
 
 

It's sad.
I used to love baseball...