Major League Baseball started Interleague play this weekend. People have debated this through the years. Keep it? or go back to regular schedules?
Has the novelty won off? Is it a good idea? I say keep it for now. This weekend has the Chicago Cubs playing in Fenway Park to face the BoSox. The last time these two team met was in the 1918 World Series, which the Cubs lost, by the way.
But seeing the players wearing their throw-back uniforms of that era, brings a mystique and charm to the game....
Seeing slugger Aramis Ramirez wear the softer seams of a bygone era gives an impression of the almost eternal sense of the game. Baseball was played in 1918. That was during World War One. The game is still going on. Of course, the made for TV rivalries of the Mets-Yankees, Dodgers-Giants, and Cubs-White Sox are exciting series for the fans and the players.
The fans still get into it. And the players have that extra hop in them. If only the weather would cooperate. The Yanees-Mets game looks like it's still early April. There is a chill in the air. But now, it's almost Memorial Day and the beginning of Summer. Can the White Sox bats heat up? or the Cubs? Both teams need to start hitting or it will be a long summer.
Of course, teams like Kansas City doesn't have a built in rivalry with another team. Maybe the Cardinals?
No matter what, you are providing the fans to see teams and players they wouldn't see during the course of the season.
There is intrigue and a freshness to seeing these AL vs. NL team face off. Perhaps one team can use a series win and go on a hotstreak. This is baseball, and in baseball, you never know.
