Hell in a handbasket

Baseball today:

No separate umpires, American League and National League. No presidents of the two leagues; the commissioner will make decisions, thank you. Automatic ejection for arguing balls and strikes. No running into the catcher. No catcher blocking the plate. Instant replay challenges on safe or out. Automatic ejection for arguing replay decision.

So, players, managers and coaches cannot argue safe or out, balls or strikes.

Included this year in spring training games -- Clocking batters and pitchers to speed up the game.

Was a time one of the most American things about baseball was, it was a game not determined by time, but by results.

And now … The new envelope, please.

Major League Baseball has an ambassador for inclusion. Billy Bean.

Inclusion. Players of color? Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Korean, Japanese inclusion?

Nope. Bean’s job is to “provide guidance and training related to efforts to support those in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community throughout Major League Baseball.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2014/07/15/mlb-names-former-major-league-outfielder-billy-bean-as-first-ambassador-for-inclusion/

OK, Bean was appointed last July by Bud Selig, the worst commissioner MLB owners ever hired, spurred partly by Selig’s inclusion in the club of owners. Selig owned the Milwaukee Brewers when he was (a) named interim commissioner, and (b) when he was named commissioner. Among Selig’s accomplishments: Having his own team moved from the American League to the National League; and several years later moving the Houston Astros from the National to American League. Why did Selig not just move his Brewers back to the American League?

Ambassador of inclusion.
There are events in this world when I know it is time for me to shuffle off this mortal coil.

Ambassador of inclusion.

GMAFB.