Baseball’s season of creative destruction
The Major League Baseball season just began and already 12 teams have been eliminated from the playoffs. What’s that, you say? We’re only three or four games into the season, how can teams already be eliminated?
Yes, it’s a little early for the traditional tragic number, counting down to a team’s elimination from the playoffs. But we can say with certitude that the Dirty Dozen clubs are out of the hunt, because they’ve already told us they have no intention of competing for the post-season. Losing ’R Us.
For fans of Tampa Bay, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City, Oakland, Miami, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and San Diego, it’s no soup for you in September. Management on these teams signalled to everyone that they’re assuming a cringing position as we head into the season.
With no bonafide chance at winning, this Dirty Dozen told the world this spring that, instead of losing gobs of money on a team that would probably fall short of glory, they were going on an austerity kick. They dumped hefty contracts for stars the way a 300-pounder drops calories in a weight-loss crash.