BCB Links and Thoughts on Interleague Play

Here are a few links that I thought I'd share:

• Blue Collar Baseball favorite Curtis Granderson blogs about hanging out with M.C. Hammer at Comerica Park. Grandy is a regular guest blogger at Big League Stew.
• Jay Bruce discusses Diamond Hoggers and the Hank Williams Jr. statue in his locker.
• Also from Diamond Hoggers, another fascinating look into the mind of Homer Bailey (who just so happens to be wearing a Hank Jr. t-shirt in the featured picture). I'd like to see Homer sporting around a Hank III shirt or maybe a spiffy Old Crow Medicine Show ensemble... just a couple of my favorites.
• Some poetry about the beauty of baseball up close from the Indianapolis Indians webiste (found via The Jolly Roger).

I'm going down to my West Virginia homeland for the weekend. Reds will be on the radio, Pirates on the TV... I probably won't be paying too much attention... Interleague play is blasphemy. If you really want me to get excited about the Reds playing the Indians, let me see them in a World Series.

Geography makes for good rivalries only if tradition is involved. St. Louis and Kansas City, that's a good interleague rivalry. Dodgers and Yankees is also a good traditional geographic rivalry.

Interleague play is just something else that Bud Selig has done to ruin baseball and mold it in the image of other sports. I heard someone call into a radio show this morning and say, "I don't see what the problem with interleague play is, football does it, basketball does it." That's right but football and basketball aren't baseball and I don't want to see it made into a spectacle like those two sports.