What's The Point?

 

 

Back in June I wondered how meaningful baseball would be if it were played in a highly condensed season.

So now, as a lifelong fan of the St. Louis Cardinals…..it really means nothing.

The outbreak on the Redbirds has essentially ended their season. Even if they got control of the virus on the Cardinal bench, they haven’t even practiced but two days in the last couple of weeks. If they resume, they can’t come close to playing the 60-game shortened season. If the Pirate series is postponed, they will have more than twice as many games postponed…than games played.

One National League manager suggested the whole idea of legitimacy for baseball this season is a “slippery slope.”

As far as I’m concerned….it’s over.

You can’t play 55 games in 45 days and permanently risk the arms of your pitching staff.

It is not just the Cards. Over half of the league’s 30 teams woke up Saturday with 14-plus games played. The Cards, Marlins and Phillies have decimated the schedule.

So the question is: Why are we going forward? The legitimacy of every National League team who gets to avoid the defending Central Division Champions on their schedule has to be questioned. This is quickly being revealed as a bogus way for Major League Baseball to collect television revenues.

Shut it down. There’s always next year.