Blog: The First, Horrible Step to 'Selig Series'

On the one hand, you've got your World Baseball Classic. Haven't heard of it? Don't care? You're in good company. Top Major League Baseball players and their agents don't want to risk their gazillion-dollar careers by participating in it, and MLB owners concur. It's this weird sideshow, held in the middle of spring training, featuring the best ballplayers in Japan, Cuba, Venezuela and, er, the Netherlands, facing off against the USA's own Eric Hosmer and Giancarlo Stanton, among other household names.

Knowing Bud Selig as I do - the kind of guy who pulls the plug on an All Star Game before it has finished, embraces scheduling and playoff formats that kill pennant races, and tinkers with this national treasure in various other gimmicky, ruinous ways - this could only have happened under his watch. It's the designated hitter of World Cups.

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