Baseball is OVER!!

Thank goodness, the baseball season has finally come to an end.

They're finally done dragging the season out. Yeah, I'm a hockey fan, and the NHL takes heat for the 8 month season, but there's actual action in a hockey game...9 months of it isn't enough. But, this isn't about hockey, I do enough of that here, this is about baseball and all its annoyances...

First of all, the bane of all my Tribe fan buddies' existence is the off game in the middle of the three game home stand. Don't these guys spend all summer playing three and four game series? Don't they string three series together at times, playing 9 or 10 straight days? You get a "travel day" to get alllll the way from Boston to Cleveland, and then you need an off day in Cleveland after game 4? Why? Sight seeing? The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is nice, but I'm sure Schilling can bring the family back in January to see it. (Because what's more beautiful than Cleveland in January? Well, other than Buffalo...) The NL was done by then, there was no baseball on, just the Sawx and Tribe lounging around in Cleveland in October waiting on the first lake effect snow.

Secondly, why do playoff games take 4 and a half hours? Extra innings puts you into the wee hours of the morning. During this year's playoffs I managed to watch a whole football game (Ohio State @ Purdue) during roughly 8 innings of a baseball game, and I got an entire Jackets game in before the 7th inning even started in one of the ALCS games. Honestly, Fox, do you need to start these games at 8 and end them at 1:26 in the morning? I understand that the American League is involved in at least half the playoff games, so I expect them to take a while, but even AL fans are complaining about how long these games are taking.

And finally, Sawx fan should be thrilled that they just won the Series in less than 85 or so years from the previous one. Do they celebrate? No, they bitch and moan because A-Rod decided to use that day to say he wouldn't be a Yankee next year. So what? You guys hate the Yankees anyway, right? You have the ultimate "SCOREBOARD!" on them, why whine about one of their players announcing they'd leave? Suck it up a little Sox fan...sheesh. You'd think the whole A-Rod thing was like the press would act if Joe Torre turned down a contract with the Yankees. (What? He did? How'd I miss that??)

So, now we're on to the once daily gold glove, Cy Young winner announcements to keep baseball in the news until Christmas or so...or long since forgotten by any self-respecting football fan. I'm sure some member of the Yankees will take a dump in the next 24 hours and the press will be all over it for us. Hell, somebody might actually spot the National League, but nobody in the press would notice because the Yankee turd would probably be a world record of some kind.

Ahhh, baseball season is over...pitchers and catchers report in only 48 hours or so...