Baseball is always tough for me to let go of. It's that last whisper of summer before the return of long cold nights, snow, rain and the holidays. I cling to it like a life preserver. Sure the games are getting way too long (Umps, call the high strike!) and it's hard to remember just what channels are broadcasting each playoff game, but we eventually make it to the World Series. There is something satisfying about witnessing the best millionaires money can buy competing at a level far beyond those of us less skilled. Hell, I didn't even have a decent Little League career!
The series is special, but this former scrub will NOT be watching if, as the Fox Network hopes, this year's big tilt comes down to a dance between the Dodgers and the Yankees. I HATE THOSE TEAMS! They ruined my childhood! Growing up in southern Michigan in the 1950's meant that my baseball world revolved around the woeful Detroit Tigers who were always dependably out of the American League pennant race by Memorial Day. When the Fall Classic rolled around it invariably seemed to be a Dodgers-Yankees shoot out and that was that. My wife, like many non fans, thought that there were only two baseball teams in the whole country. It was that bad. The Yankees and the Dodgers have met 11 times in the World Series; six times alone between 1947 and 1956. It's just not right, and I say we need another century or two without a re-match. Sure the TV network will make a ton of moola if the country's two largest television markets play host to the contest but it sure will be a lot more fun for those of us in the hinterlands who root for underdogs like the Cubs or Astros if the Series is Dodger and Yankee free. We want a central time zone World Series!
I do believe, like most men of my years, we are happy to have known some good women, a great cigar or two, the inside of a Corvette, the bottom of a glass of Jack Daniels and, with luck, another World Series that is Dodger and Yankee free.
Cubs! Astros!
I do believe, like most men of my years, we are happy to have known some good women, a great cigar or two, the inside of a Corvette, the bottom of a glass of Jack Daniels and, with luck, another World Series that is Dodger and Yankee free.
Cubs! Astros!
YES!
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| NO! |
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| HELL NO! |
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| They've had quite enough, thank you! |
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