Spring training was cancelled. Now Major League Baseball has cancelled opening day and the first week of the season.
Stadiums that should be full are empty. I should be in Arizona watching the Dodgers' spring training. Yet, we are all on the sidelines, waiting as the rich and powerful divvy up $11 Billion in annual baseball revenue.
Just as we are wallowing in baseball misery, in rides Joe Kelly to remind us of all that is good and can be again.
The Dodger pitcher has written a wonderful piece in the LA Times, "First Person: Joe Kelly pleads with fans "not to forget about baseball" during MLB lockout."
It is the best baseball article I have read in years. And it is all the better coming from a character like Kelly, who has two world series rings, can throw triple digits, but is most famous around here for his mariachi jacket. Kelly gets baseball. More, he can lay it out in words. Baseball, he says, is "a combination of chess, ballet, a classroom and cannon fire." Yes, yes, yes and yes.
I will be following Joe Kelly, not Rob Manfredi, at @BBisntBoring.
On behalf of all good and fair-minded people everywhere, I nominate Joe Kelly as Baseball Commissioner.
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