The Evil Empire Strikes

Alright already, who’s ever heard of a baseball season ending in a tie and having the winner determined by an NFL type tiebreaker? Nobody, of course, and that includes the media, Boston Red Sox players and everyone in New England. Clearly, Red Sox Nation was shafted by Major League Baseball and its dominant franchise, the New York Yankees. America should have been treated to a game between the aged muscle-bound denizens of the Bronx and those wonderfully innocent home grown New Englanders from Fenway Park. But what kind of conspiracy would that have created?

While it will surely turn out well in the end, the clear intent of the secret rule was to assure that the Evil Empire would have every advantage in the post season. The juiced up Bronx Bombers need every edge that a $200 million dollar pumped up payroll can provide, and MLB has provided it in the form of rule obviously adopted to frustrate honest New Englanders at home and wherever the Diaspora has taken them.

While Wild Bill is confident that the Beantown locals will prevail, he finds it terribly sad that the owners of such small town franchises as Minnesota, Milwaukee and Kansas City would allow themselves to be intimidated and gulled by The Boss in picking on their fellow regional team and allowing the money boys from Wall Street to determine off the field which franchise would get all the breaks. That’s a sad commentary on Red States and honest conservatives everywhere.

While I have no doubts that my loyal readers from New York are clear eyed when it comes to the issues of Iraq, budget and trade deficits and such, it is demoralizingly sad to see their hubris when it comes to the Yankees. While the supporters of these juiced up monsters from the Bronx are able to be objective when it comes to politics and world affairs, it is awful to see their blind spots when it comes to the far more important issue of baseball and the place of their overpaid, over-muscled, slow thinking representatives from the Bronx.

It’s very sad, and I’m tempted to call for baseball to break up the Yankees but that might lead a player addicted to steroids being shipped to the Back Bay. I’ll just settle for saying it’s unfair and that it’s disappointing.

The paranoid among the Red Sox Nation are certainly reading much into the fact that the opening day pitcher for the Chicago White Sox – a team with its own post season scandal riddled past, Jose Contreras, might have been planted by The Boss to assure a less than stellar start to the BOSOX post season. Wild Bill will just say, “Noted.”

Fair Play Forever! Blog on!

Wild Bill