That Ain't Baseball

10-5. 20-10. 14-11. Those were the scores of the three Yankees-Rockies games in Denver this week. If this kind of baseball is good for the fans, then I don't want to be a fan. Even factoring in the Coors Field effect, this is ludicrous. Of course, it's highly likely that they used balls that weren't stored in the humidor for this series, figuring that the kind of person who only goes to a Rockies game when the Yankees are in town is the same kind of person who gets off on a football score in a baseball game. The good news is that the Yankees' starters ERAs flew up. And the Red Sox don't have to go there.

Speaking of baseball travesties, I can only watch one pitch at a time of the College World Series, going on this week at Omaha's historic Rosenblatt Stadium. (Yes, I was there; go to sooz's capricious.org and click on "Nebraska 2000" under Photo Collections on the right.) Then I hear the PING! of the aluminum bat and I lunge for the remote control. Aluminum bats make every game like a Coors Field game. And they will until a college pitcher gets his head crushed like a pumpkin on a line drive.