Selig didn’t connect HFA to the ASG because he cared about the “quality” or “integrity” of the game. It’s a ploy to improve ratings and thereby increase the licensing value. It just helps ensure that jerks like Phil Glass and Jeff Loria are in a good mood when they go to the bank.

I annually fill out at least one ballot based on funny names and one based on ex-Mariners (got a lot of choice here, particularly on the AL ballot). Sue me.

- Grant home field to the team that has gone the longest without a WS victory. (Sort of like college football conference tiebreakers.)

- Coin Toss.

It’s usually safe to blame Bud Selig. I blame Bug Selig about six times a day. Eight times a day on those days when I catch a game on TV or radio. Ten if in person.

Amen, brother!

That’s kind of interesting, though is there always an odd number of interleague games each year (to avoid the possibility of a tied record)? The best part about it is that the it would make the “traditionalists” hate interleague play even more. (I guess if you’re a traditionalist you’d want to go back to the alternating year thing… unless you’re a hardcore traditionalist, in which case you’d want a best of nine series, or maybe one played without lights with the possibility of ties due to lack of daylight, or maybe just call the WS an exhibition like it was pre-1903)

I agree with anyone who thinks that it should be a voted love fest but shouldn’t mean anything other than expensive advertising time.

To bad J-Lo isn’t getting more votes, he deserves it this year.