While watching the Colorado Rockies defeat the hapless San Diego Padres 6-3 Friday night, Ken, official oldest child of NewMexiKen, suggested that baseball adopt that European soccer practice of dropping the poorest team in the league each season and moving up the best team from the next level.
Good bye Mariners. Good bye Nationals or Padres.
Hello Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. Hello Iowa Cubs or Salt Lake Bees.
But we just got our new ballpark built, and nobody’s going to watch games there if the major league teams don’t come to play. D.C., of course, is populated almost entirely by people from across the country, so every visiting team has a home crowd – that would all disappear if the Nats were kicked to the minors!