Just a Series and a Game

I just read a rumor that, if baseball happens this year, the All-Star Game and Homerun Derby could take place after the World Series.  This would all be part of an 89-game season, give or take, basically half a season in ordinary times.  Why not reflect that by cutting the name in half to a simple “Series”?

 

And nothing like turning the All-Star Game into a variation on the Pro Bowl.  The one thing Bud Selig ever did as baseball commissioner that made sense was have home-field advantage determined by the outcome of the All-Star game.  This made the game count for something.  But, hey, it’s just entertainment, so no more meaning attached to the All-Star Game.

 

Who knows, maybe it never had any beyond the desire of individual players to stand out.  I keep thinking of Ted Williams, and I’m too young to remember him play.  Williams played in sixteen All-Star contests, batting .304 with a .439 OBP.  Teddy Ballgame cared, Teddy Ballgame always came to play.

 

And what night of the week in late, late October would they play the mid-summer classic?  It couldn’t be Sunday, Monday or Thursday, not with the NFL around, and not Saturday night because college football has claimed that.

 

That leaves Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday.  Who’s going to watch on date night?  I go with Wednesday.  They could hype it as the big Hump-day Game.  Yeah, that has a ring to it.