Interleague play is about to begin in baseball and I look forward to it every season. Many others don't like it.
Others complain that it takes away from the Division Play that is supposed to really determine who the best teams are. I don't understand why people want MORE DIVISIONAL play in baseball. 19 games against the same team each season is not enough?
Do we need to end interleague play so we can 23 match-ups between the Nationals and Marlins a season? Royals and Indians? Diamondbacks and Rockies?
I get pretty bored of watching the Mets to begin with and it gets more boring playing the same freaking team a week after they last played. I look forward to watching the Mets playing teams and players that I don't see them play that often. It spices things up. The Cubs get to go back to Fenway for the first time since the 1918 World Series. That's pretty cool, and I got news for you, it's better than another Cubs-Reds series or Red Sox-Orioles series.
To be honest when I look for Mets tickets on a single-game basis I try hard to avoid match-ups against Division foes, (I probably wouldn't pay to watch the Mets play the Nationals) unless it's the first place team in the division. In other words more meaningless games against the bottom half of the division is as MEANINGLESS as a college head coaches contract.
I even get tired of the Yankees and Red Sox games after awhile. They are nice, but too often it feels like they are ALWAYS playing each other. Yankees vs Red Sox often feels a lot less like Ali vs Frazier and more like two kids sitting next to each other on a road trip and poking each other.
I like it when the Yankees and Red Sox play on Memorial Day weekend, July 4th weekend and in September. One more series thrown in there is nice, but more than that feels like overkill, especially since they always play 4 hour games.
I just want to say I am so thankful interleague play is here to keep things interesting in baseball.
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