First, the good news. The Los Angeles Dodgers, as predicted, have won the World Series again in a repeat performance over the Toronto Blue Jays. Your blog editor predicted this at the beginning of the season. The bottom line is and will be going forward that the Dodgers have deeper pockets than anyone else and will always be able to buy the best players available for every position. They are creating a dynasty and will continue to dominate Major League Baseball for the foreseeable future. The Commissioner of baseball should have controlled the overspending Dodgers methods and found ways to balance the level playing field. Because he has not the Dodgers will reign supreme for the near term.
The next comment relates to another Commissioner lack of prudent judgement. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, 2 drug abusers, will be on the ballot for Major League baseball’s Hall of Fame consideration. This is a disgrace for the game we have always called “the national pastime”. Kids grow up dreaming of the day when they might be able to play the game and they choose heroes that they could model themselves after. But some scheming, greedy, and unthinking adults have tainted that image by allowing cheaters to be recognized for their accomplishments on the field, when those accomplishments were made using illegal drugs. This is an abomination of trust, faith, end image for our national pastime. Just as kids learn to do things right the adults who run Major League Baseball teach them how to do things very wrong. Replace the Commissioner or face a continuing downward spiral where teams with winning records come from the bigger ad market communities.
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