MLB Opening Day

With a new full slate completed, MLB can chalk up the success of completing games to Mother Nature. Only the Yankee Home Opener was delayed, and having lived and breathed at in and in the rainless 6 hours after the game was called; postponing the Yankee game tonight is classified as a big mistake. Hopefully it will be the only mistake the Yankees make this year. Glamourbee and I will return to the Bronx tonight and hopefully not freeze.

For the last 2 years MLB has made the master schedule. This is done so that there are no conflicting big games in prime time MLB revenue slots. There is no consideration for the fans.

The desire for $$$ by Selig and MLB leads to weekend home games being scheduled in odd afternoon times. I guess Bud forgets ballparks sell out on weekend as it becomes a family affair. The traditional after lunch ball game is few and far between, so as not to tick off ESPN, FOX and other networks. Forcing baseball to 4 and 7PM on the weekends for east coast games. Explain that to your your little leaguer.

Baseball on March 31 is crap shoot. Even Vegas won't give odds on getting a better than 50% completion in. Worse yet many games of snow city teams are scheduled in the snow cities, instead of sending the northern climate affected teams to play in warmer or enclosed fields.

This year MLB is off the hook, because Mother Nature sent a warm front through Wisconsin, and Illinois in time to allow those games to be played in Florida evening like conditions, as opposed to freezer like conditions; which will be the case about the 4th inning of tonight's Yankee Home Opener, Part II. And God forbid we schedule a day night doubleheader.

Baseball is going the wayside of a family sport. The sport is under the under influences of the greedy money hungry commissioner's office and the greedy owners. It's time for Selig to go. As for the owners, the should all be ashamed. They will eventually price themselves out of fans; and even the Yankees, the most expensive ticket in baseball have stopped catering to the average Joe.

In the zeal to sell seats in the new digs in the Bronx, ~800 seats are being priced between $500-$2500 dollars, So far 200 seats have sold. In addition fan ticket prices were raised again this year. Contracts should be lower so that ticket prices can come down and all who want to can afford a nice seat. This is forcing many to minor league baseball, part of the overall success of the minor expansion of the last few years. It remains the most affordable professional sporting event for families.

MLB games are rapidly becoming a tax write off for uberpaid executives and businesses; most of whom don't really follow the game. They attend to have status, not to watch and spend more time talking business the the game.

My Yankee tickets are the one extravagance I give myself. I use some myself and give some away for business and family, and the rest sell off to fans what I can't use. However I always make sure the person is a fan of the game; an absolute must.

I am hoping Mother Nature pounds some sense into the owners, before they price themselves out of the game and a fan base.

Its time for some common sense to come to baseball management. You can't always count of Mother Nature being kind and the fans being there.