For all you fans of watching
athletes function in unbearable humidity, take heart, for baseball may indulge your
fondest wish. For you fans of watching
athletes wilt under an unrelenting sun that gives off a “dry heat,” fear not
that you are forgotten. Baseball may
give you what you want, too.
All of which is to say the “brain
trust” of major league baseball has come up with another idea to play this
season. According to a story by Bob
Nightengale in yesterday’s USA Today, for one year the National and American
Leagues would give way to their spring-training counterparts, with teams
divided equally between the Florida-based Grapefruit League and Arizona’s
Cactus League, each with three divisions and heaven knows what kind of
postseason structure. Be still my
beating heart.
The big advantage of this plan is
it throws an extra two MLB stadiums into the mix, assuming Tropicana Field and
Marlins Park qualify as major league. Nightengale
also mentioned the possibility of all thirty teams adopting the DH. That should send the pretend-purists howling.
How this idea improves on my
suggestion of an Iowa/Illinois/Wisconsin/Indiana or Pennsylvania/New York
grouping of D-I college field beats me.
But if the big thinkers keep throwing ideas out there, something more sensible
than playing in insane conditions has got to stick. I think.
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