August 30, 2019

Players’ Weekend disaster shows MLB’s continuing foolishness

by Felix Pantaleón

In the 1934 movie “You’re Telling Me!” W.C. Fields says he “bought a wonderful club in Toronto,” then tells his caddie, “Give me the Canadian Club.” By the time MLB’s “Players’ Weekend” ended, no elixir was strong enough to clear or further dull the mind of the systemic senselessness. But MLB never runs low on…

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