COMMISSIONER BUD SELIG HATES AMERICA IN GENERAL AND THE BASIN IN PARTICULAR: TRAVEL DAY? ARE YOU KIDDING?

The St. Louis Cardinals are not scheduled to play on May 26. May 26 is the official American Memorial Day holiday. Through War and Depression, there was always baseball on Memorial (Used to be, there were always doubleheaders.) Day. Maybe the fans in the Missouri, Downstate Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Iowa area just heard the game on the radio (somebody has to travel somewhere to play--somebody has to be the visiting team) but there was always a game. Memorial Day is a day where people remember the fathers and grandfathers, uncles and brothers with whom they shared life experiences. In many cases, those experiences had baseball in them.

MLB makes these schedules, not the Cardinals. The Commissioner's office approves them and hires the computer jocks who work them out. I don't blame the Cardinals a bit. The commissioners have decided that the folks in the midwest and mid-south don't deserve to observe their holiday with MLB in it.

As I have shared on may occasions, your friendly Basin is no Cardinal fan. But this blog supports the many baseball fans of the greater UMRB and they don't deserve to have pinhead like Bud decide they are not worthy of the National Pastime on a National Holiday.

Bud, May you room with Pete Rose in Hell!