Epic Fail!

 Copyright United Features Syndicate

Once again Major League Baseball has taken a golden opportunity and turned it into a colossal screw up.

This past Saturday and Sunday MLB managed to get two games scheduled in London between the Red Sox and Yankees.  Baseball says the plan was to expose Europeans to the game played every day in the US during the summer.  Well, they played two games and the result was two of the most boring baseball games you've ever seen.  MLB hyped the game on Saturday as a classic.  It was won by the Yankees 17-13.  The nine inning game lasted 4 hours 42 minutes.  So, yes, in a way it was a classic.  It was a classic snooze-fest!  And the game on Sunday was almost as horrible.  It lasted 18 minutes less checking in at 4:24 with the Yankees winning 12-8.  It sounds exciting but it wasn't.  I found myself flipping channels on Saturday and never bothered to return to the game.  On Sunday I decided I didn't have five hours of my life to waste watching Triple A pitchers strike out hitters slugging for the fences on every pitch and striking out at an alarming rate.

I suppose the Londoners wondered what kind of game this was.  It wasn't cricket but the long boring game on Saturday might have resembled it to the Brits who were brave enough to go to think it was going to be fun.

MLB do us a favor and cancel your plans for another London series next summer between the Cardinals and Cubs.  I am a longtime fan of the Cardinals but I won't watch a rehash of the debacle on Saturday and Sunday that lasted a combined nine hours and six minutes.