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Spending the last three days watching baseball has been wonderful.  I want to thank Bud Selig for all these things.  If we going to blame Bud FOR EVERYTHING then we should commend him for whats happened in baseball under his watch.

So many baseball fans have a knee jerk hatred for Bud Selig.  I get it,  the media harps on and on about steriods.  I get it,  Bud was there for the strike. I GET IT,  he tried to contract two teams. OK.  It he tainted the game with crazy new ideas like the WILD CARD- I GET IT.  The fact is he did some good things.

Here is a list of the good things done on Bud’s watch.

1. The wild card. – Ask Red Sox, Marlins and Angels fans about the wild card.

2. MLB.com – You can watch any game online.  He centralized web revenue so everyone’s precisous small market teams could have cash.

3.  Labor Peace. – Yes it’s ironic that he presided over the strike but he has got the owners pulling in the same direction to avoid labor issues.  Baseball has not had a strike or a major labor outage since 1994.  That’s 15 years folks.

4.  Better ball parks and growth of the game overall.  - If you like in a town with an old CRAPPY ballpark you know how much they blow.  When you go to an HOK design park baseball just becomes better.  New Yorkers are going to be in for the shock of their lives.  We’re used to Yankee and Shea and let me tell you,  they both suck.  People will forget about aura and mystique in a heart beat.

Thanks Bud!  If you want to hire me,  I’m available.

If you are a sports fan you probably already heard that Alex Rodriguez has tested positive for steroids. Out-fucking-standing!

Baseball is so good at dragging itself through the mud. From Cocaine, to owners collusion and labor issues baseball continues to try and fuck itself over. Now, it has gone and done it again.  Some asshat leaked the supposed anonymous tests from 2003 that Rodriguez juiced.

Now we’re all stuck with years of listening to knuckle head fans bitch about how the game is tainted and all that jazz.  As a Yankee fan I now have ten more years of Alex Rodriguez on my team.  The 2009 season that had so much promise is now entirely in jeopardy.  It’s just going to suck.  I have to listen to Michael Kay bitch about A-Rod.  I hate him and I hate it.  It’s entirely sucky.  I’m just sick today.

Related Articles

• ESPN: A-Rod admits, regrets use of PEDs (ESPN.com)
• SI: Alex Rodriguez Tested Positive For Steroids [Alex Rodriguez] (deadspin.com)

Just had the boss man in town for a few days.  Not bad,  not bad.  We chilled we talked normal work business.  Fairly happy about it.  Right,  that’s not interesting though.  I’ll tell you what is.

I HAVE A REAL NEMESIS

You are dying to know what it is?  It is not a person,  not an animal and not even something you can kill.  It is a thing and that thing is the V train! If you don’t live in Brooklyn on the F line this won’t mean anything to you but if you do,  you KNOW EXACTLY what I mean.  Anytime you are in Manhattan waiting desperately to get back to cozy, olde towne Brooklyn on the old Culver Avenue line (That’s the F for you historical luddites) the Goddamn V comes.

NO ONE IS IN IT

The V is an evil empty train that comes by and laughs at you.  I think actually,  it should have a Swastika on it because that is what it makes me feel like when it rumbles in,  and rumbles away.  It’s like being punched in the face and laughed at.  How the MTA in NYC can get away with that train running and propose transit cuts is beyond me.  I just don’t know who’s bung hole got licked to get that service set up.  If the V had a physical representation it would be a mangy-dirty-rabies-infested cat.  I would love to MeowSplash that Ratty V train cat!  To the Gowanus with you V train!

In the immortal words of Al Goldstein while doing his best work on ‘Midnight Blue‘  — Hey V train,  FUCK YOU!