Month: July 2007 (Page 17 of 17)

Sports agent Scott Boras wrote a two-page proposal to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about expanding the World Series to a best of nine. Part of Boras’ plan is to have the first two games of the series played at a neutral site, which he believes will create a buzz similar to the Super Bowl.

“I know from an owner’s perspective, this is a gold mine,” Boras said. “To have a World Series Weekend, WSW, I think it will create a stage that the game has not seen.”

Alright, there’s two problems with your grand plan there Boras. One, is a city like Baltimore or San Diego really going to give a crap about a Tigers-Cardinals World Series? Doubtful. Plus, if you have the first two games at a natural site and one team drops both, are you really going to ask that same team to go on the road for two more down 0-2? They could be down 0-4 before throwing one pitch in their home park. Sorry Boras, but I think this one’s a swing and a miss big guy.

Barry Bonds was officially voted into the All-Star Game by fans Sunday, leaping over Alfonso Soriano and landing a spot in the starting outfield with Ken Griffey Jr. and Carlos Beltran.

All anyone wants to talk about is how Bonds has cheated fans and the game, but then he still winds up in the All-Star Game, as a starter nevertheless. I can hear the conspiracy theorists out there right now saying, “Well, since the game is being played in San Francisco, MLB fixed the voting to get him in.” Go that route if it helps you sleep at night, but I don’t buy that, not with Bud the slug Selig making a quiet public stand against Bonds and breaking Hank Aaron’s all-time home run record.

Are we as fans hypocrites? It doesn’t make a lick of sense how this guy is public enemy #1 in baseball fans’ world, yet he’s still voted into the All-Star Game…by us. It’s not all San Francisco fans doing the voting either, folks. This goes right in line with fans at opposing parks that boo the hell out of Bonds, yet all the while are snapping pictures of him at a Mach Three pace.