{"id":6087,"date":"2012-03-28T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=6087"},"modified":"2012-03-28T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:39:10","slug":"bud-selig-is-blowing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/6087","title":{"rendered":"Bud Selig Is Blowing It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I first heard the news that MLB was sending two teams to Japan to kick-off the 2012 season I didn\u2019t think much of it.\u00a0 Now that I am stuck in a classroom full of 6th<\/sup> graders taking state mandated tests, I have some time on my hands.\u00a0 Major League Baseball is a monster-sized, multi-national, money making operation.\u00a0 This is fine.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, this is great.\u00a0 I have no problems with this whatsoever.\u00a0 But hosting Opening Day in a different country\u2026that\u2019s some bull!<\/p>\n

You can talk all you want about how Japan is a great consumer of all things MLB.\u00a0 You can praise them over and over for what they have done for the game.\u00a0 And don\u2019t get me wrong; they have done positive things for the game of baseball.\u00a0 But they are still number 2 when it comes to fans.\u00a0 I know how much it sucks to be an Astros fan right now.\u00a0 Bud Selig publicly humiliated us.\u00a0 Try being an A\u2019s fan today, though.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t even watch their team play on opening day.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 Imagine how it must feel to know that you woke up to catch the 3 AM start time, only to see that the Oakland regional network was not carrying the game, the MLB channel would be playing it on tape delay 3 hours later, and then trying MLB.com to see that the game has been blacked out despite any amount of money you have already paid.\u00a0 This is where the beef lies with Opening Day held across the world.<\/p>\n

Bud Selig and Major League Baseball will try to tell you different.\u00a0 They will try to explain to you that once every 4 years (Baseball has opened up the season in Japan in the years 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012.) baseball needs to make its way over to Japan to help expand the game.\u00a0 They will try to tell you that we still have Opening Night this season- April 4- and Opening Day- April 5.\u00a0 Malarky, I say.\u00a0 That rhetoric is purely diarrhea of the mouth.<\/p>\n

If it is so damned important to make sure games get played in different countries, does it really have to be the first game of the season?\u00a0 Certainly not.\u00a0 Bud, you do know it is called America\u2019s Pastime<\/em>, right?<\/p>\n

Give the people what they want.\u00a0 All we want here is this American sport of baseball to hold its Opening Day in America.\u00a0 This is hardly asking too much.\u00a0 Expansion of the game is great.\u00a0 I really do believe that, and so do most of you readers out there.\u00a0 Keeping American fans from not being able to go to the park to watch their team\u2019s opening game is horse manure.\u00a0 Making it so that fans of a team playing their Opening Day game in a different country can\u2019t watch said game is down right blasphemous.\u00a0 And hosting the very first baseball game of the season in a different country is just the worst idea ever.\u00a0 Figure it out, Bud Selig.\u00a0 You\u2019re really starting to wear out the knees in those pants\u2026if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

 
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