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Jeff Passan, over at Yahoo! sports, has decided that he can make interleague play better. I feel that he's a moron, but he gets a HUGE audience under his conglomerate at Yahoo!. I suggest you read that piece of trash before reading my rebuttal. Here's why...
 Jeff says: "The brilliant idea: Home-field advantage in World Series goes to the league with the best record in interleague play"
I say: bullshit. You want to reward the LEAGUE that has the better recode? So you're saying that if the Red Sox meet the Phillies in the World Series, and the Phillies won every single interleague game, while the Red Sox lost every single interleague game, but the collective records of each leagues determine that the Red Sox should get home field advantage? Jeff, you need to think this through a little more. The easiest thing to do here would be to rewards home-field advantage to the TEAM with the best interleague record. At least you're not giving it to the All-Star game winner. You do have a little more sense than Bud. But then again, so does my dog. Jeff says: "The logical idea: Designated hitter in both parks" I say: WHAT? You want to take the worst idea in the history of the game and EXPAND it? Let me guess, you're one of the people in your office who performs the worst and then gets the big promotion, right? Come on. You're taking away a good bit of strategy here. These games COUNT, and giving the advantage to ALL American League teams is not going to win you any popularity contests. The system as it remains is fine. National League teams get to play their games at home the way they normally do, and American League teams likewise. The next thing you're going to want to do is shorten the wall in National League parks to make it more like Yankee Stadium. Jeff says: "The simple idea: Better rivalries" I say: Can't happen. Once again, a person in the media wants to CREATE a rivalry out of nothing. You can't make a rivalry out of placing two teams in a park and saying, "go for it, kids." Rivalries are made from years of two teams facing each other again and again, with each team winning games at different times. Jeff says: "The progressive idea: Neutral sites for non-traditional matchups" I say: You're contradicting yourself. You want to make great rivalries, and then you want to take the games that suck and move them out of town altogether? FANTASTIC! Why don't we punish cities who have teams and make lesser cities without teams feel better about themselves, because THE YANKEES ARE COMING TO TOWN! I'm sure the people in Debuque, Iowa would be ecstatic. They can just cut the field out of corn! Jeff says: "The outlandish idea: The interleague draft" I say: Here's a guy who didn't keep score when he played Little League! Come on, Jeff. You know better than this. We can't punish the successful teams and reward the terrible teams. We already do that with the Salary Cap. Oh wait... The truth is, I think Jeff is trying to fix something that is not broken. Interleague is something that probably needs to go away, at least for a little while. Let the cities who have teams get to see other teams, but not every year. I believe MLB should institute a 5-year plan: 5 years on, 5 years off for interleague play. You can't just keep throwing garbage in the face of the fans. If changes are made, I just pray they never change the game. |
