Hello friends,

How are you and sorry for my absence the last few weeks. I notice this is my first blog in May and I apologize to you my readers. Anyway interleague baseball is starting again this weekend in baseball and as long as they're going to have it I think they should have some of the classic matchups more often since you never know until each October who will play in the World Series and since that is for the championship it isn't quite as fun in a relaxing enjoyable way as an interleague regular season series for bragging rights. Let me explain what I mean by this.

This weekend I am looking forward to a great matchup at Fenway Park between two of my favorite teams the Milwaukee Brewers and the Boston Red Sox. There will be several other great matchups to watch and some not so great, you can't have everything with the schedule. But what I want on a more regular basis is some of the classic baseball interleague matchups. Starting off with the most obvious matchup between the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs. I remember their weekend matchup at Wrigley Field in 2005 when the Cubs took two of three from the Red Sox, the games were fun and nostalgic to watch based on the teams histories and first meeting since the 1918 World Series and I remember ESPN broadcaster Jon Miller closing his broadcast by saying lets do this every year. Or other year. Why not? This year in fact the Cubs division the NL Central plays the Red Sox and Yankees division the AL East but none of those teams play each other and I ask again, Why Not?  I know the teams don't play every team in each division but for fan interest at its peak shouldn't we get some games between these teams at Fenway Park, Wrigley Field or the last year of Yankee Stadium. Or would you rather watch Diamondbacks vs Mariners or Rays vs Nationals?

Why cant we have more Cubs vs Red Sox or Yankees, Yankees vs Dodgers or many other ones where you could find some interest for everyone. True the schedule cant provide all sizzling matchups and while we have interleague it's good to have everyone play everyone once in a while, it is also good to bring out some classic interleague games as I've described for fan interest more often. I know the fans of the local cities want Yankees-Mets, Cubs-White Sox, Angels- Dodgers and Giants-A's but we also want more of the classics as well. Please work on this Commisioner Bud Selig and Baseball. You're doing a great job with interleague baseball already and as long as you're going to have it you might as well bring out the classic matchups more often. As I said also they're never guaranteed to meet in the World Series often and the regular season matchups without the championship pressure are more fun as well. Let me know what you think friends. Best wishes and have a great and productive day friends. Talk soon. fenfan