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I'm sure you're gonna get a lot of emails about this one, but don't EVER send me another email about Figure Skating.  I will unsubscribe in 2 seconds.  I am on a BASEBALL mailing list.  I don't care what kind of deals you have with advertisers, etc.  This was unacceptable and could easily be called spam, since there is seemingly no link qualifying why I was sent this message.

 

You know what, I "extend a special invitation to all MLB.com fans to check out" MY company's website, too.  Where is my mass email?!

 

Unacceptable.

 

Hey MLB, how about giving BASEBALL fans what they want instead of alienating them by trying to give them what they DONT want.

 

Especially when there's only 3 DAYS LEFT (OUT OF 8) ON THE STUPID THING YOU'RE ADVERTISING!!!

 

Figure skating???!?!  Really?  Figure skating PRESS CONFERENCES!?!?!!!!!  Are 10 people going to respond positively to this?!

 

You know what I want?  I want home field advantage in the World Series to be determined by who has the best regular season record (like in every other sport).  If you are going to make the All-Star game determine that, then you have to do away with the "every team has to have a rep" rule because that is leaving probably at LEAST 20 better players out of the game each year.

 

I want Joe Morgan fired.  He is terrible and knows almost nothing about today's game.  He is stuck in the 70's with his Big Red Machine and that's all he wants to talk about and that's fine.  Let him sucker some Cincinnatti radio station into giving him a 2 hour talk show on Thursday afternoons and let's all be done with him.  He is a joke.

 

I want Tim McCarver fired.  See above.  He can't pronounce anyone's name right.  He never says anything I don't already know.

 

The game has changed, MLB.  Time to join the party by changing the people that are supposed to be promoting it to a new generation of fans.

 

I want arrogant sports writers to have their votes taken away for the Hall of Fame.  Can anyone explain why Cal Ripken was not a 100% unanimous choice this year?  If you say "oh no one should be unanimous because Babe Ruth wasn't unanimous, but I'll vote him in next year," you are incorporating personal bias and not voting within the guidelines of the Hall.

 

If you want people to take your sport seriously again, take yourself seriously.  Get Pete Rose and Mark McGwire into the Hall of Fame now.  You know why?  Because they're FAMOUS.  It's not the Hall of Nice Baseball Players. 

 

Stop jumping at every advertiser that wants to pay you $$$ to slap their name on something and start listening to what the people that watch the games and pay the salaries and rising ticket prices want!

 

It's not hard, people.

 

I apologize to the college intern that had to read this first.  If you agree with any of this, please forward it to someone above you that probably doesn't care.

 

If you don't agree with this, please add your name to the list of people that should be fired from working in baseball and repost in your myspace bulletins within 5 minutes or the love of your life will never find you!

 

But seriously, FIGURE SKATING!?!#Q$*#$^%?