A BUDding Disaster

Bud Selig may have just changed baseball forever. Over the past 2o years we have embraced change from new expansion teams, to the Wild Card, to inter-league play, and now this. With this new schedule and the Astros going to the American League, baseball will yet again become more uneven. Inter-league has made June an enjoyable month of Angels-Dodger, and Met-Yankee games. Now with Selig's new plan, it appears that inter-league play will become less extraordinary, as it will happen every weekend. When this preposterous idea came about, it felt like Selig was the president delivering a "new" job plan. I personally, do not at all agree with this idiotic plan, that might negatively impact baseball. Baseball was fine how it was, despite the new regulations and ways. Although inter-league play is entertaining, it is useless and one sided. At National League parks, the American League is put at a disadvantage by having the pitchers hit. But at the AL parks, the National League is disadvantaged in the sense that with the DH, most teams don't have a proper DH. Instead of having a Big Poppi or Jim Thome as their designated hitter, NL teams use players who don't play everyday and probably will bat in the lower third of the order. Also, in the NL, pitchers are intricate parts of the lineup as they sacrifice or strike out with runners in scoring position. Hitting can also put AL pitchers at risk for injury, like Chin Ming Wang a couple of years ago. Besides, these one sided games can make or break a team's season. With one Wild Card contending team playing one set of teams and another Wild Card contender playing another set of teams, an imperfection is possible because one team could have been playing the NL West, and the other playing the NL East. Instead of expanding and promoting inter-league play, the MLB should have gotten rid of it completely.