Interleague Baseball-The Work Of The Devil!

It is the saddest time in the baseball season as it is the beginning of a half month of interleague play.
For the casual baseball fan, this means nothing.
But for those of us who still can not believe that the American League still has the designated hitter, this is only one more abomination that has been forced on us true fans by Commissioner Bud Selig.
These games, which force American League teams to play National League teams in regular season games that count in the standings used to be played only twice in a season. The first was correctly during the exhibition season and then in October during the World Series.
But Mr. Selig, who wanted to totally reorganize the two leagues and make a total mockery of Major League baseball got this compromise throughout the owners after the disastrous strike of the mid 90s. It should be noted that, rightfully, when he was owner of the Texas Rangers, George W. Bush was the only owner to vote against this scheme.
The "goal" was to create rivalries where none existed before.
Well, Mr Selig, you can not force what is not there. There is no natural rivalry between the Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. They just happen to be in the same state and more or less an excuse for the retirees to see the teams in the cities that they left behind.
There have always been strong rivalries in baseball. The Dodgers-Giants. The Yankees-Red Sox, The Cubs-Cardinals, the list goes on.
This happened by events, not artificial attempts to line the pockets of out of touch owners who can care less about what real fans think and look to fairweather fans that have no aprecitation of the history and majesty of the game.
It is this atmosphere that may have led some of the great hitters of the game like Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds to take steroids and the same Mr. Selig and company looked the other way until it became ridiculous to have 70 home run seasons become commonplace.
I love baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers and I will still watch these interleague games because, unfortunately they do count.
Despite the attempts by cretins like Bud Selig and his cronies to ruin the greatest of American sports, because it is baseball that I still love the game and believe that this is just a dark era and that some sanity will eventually prevail. Hopefully that will be in my lifetime!