For the good of the game, baseball needs all these Cinderellas to reach the pumpkin hour. These rag teams better start looking like it well before September, too. This cannot continue. Let all these Cinderellas have their fun in 2002, '03, or every year from now on. Just not this year.
Baseball needs the evil step-sisters to control their sport just one more time.
It's bad enough baseball owners can't beat the players' union, either at the negotiating table or in a court of law. Now, they can't catch a break. For 10 years, baseball has been a game of haves and have-nots. About 75 percent of teams with the biggest payrolls made the playoffs. Everyone had pretty much come around to realizing competitive unbalance was bad for the game.