How To Ensure MLB's Favorite National League Team Gets To The World Series

Super Fraud would like to thank Bud Selig for spitting in the face of the sport again, allowing a bunch of braggadocious, entitled loud-mouths to be National League Champions.

No, I didn't just fall on my head.  I am fully aware that the St. Louis Cardinals were effectively given the National League Championship tonight.  Fully aware of that fact.

Why do I say it how I say it??  Let us count the ways:

• The Los Angeles Times reported that Yasiel Puig was officially warned about his gestures and questioning the strike zone in Game 5...
• ... however, NONE OF THIS OTHER BEHAVIOR that Deadspin found over the course of the first several games of the series, did MLB have a problem with.  It was so out of line that, in the aforementioned article of the Times, Vin Scully actually defended Puig's behavior.  Older-than-Old-School Vin Scully...  This after the Cardinals were bitching and bitching about the (and bitching!) conduct of the (and BITCHING!!) Dodgers.  
• And bitching...
• Nor did Major League Baseball, or Game 6 Home Plate St. Louis Cardinal Umpire Greg Gibson (no relation to Kirk (who just celebrated the 25th Anniversary of "I Don't Believe What I Just Saw!") or Debbie (who sang the National Anthem that night)) see any problem with Yadier (more like "Yadda Yadda") Molina here:

 

This was AFTER Molina had been called for Strike One in his first plate appearance.

Mr. Gibson...  Mr. Selig...  Why was Yadda-Yadda Molina not ejected?

• I'll tell you what...  Let's give you an easier one.  Explain to me this pitch tracker from Game 6...

 

That, Major League Baseball, is YOUR OWN PITCH TRACKER.  Two waist-high, meat of the outside part of the plate -- not even the outside corner -- pitches.  Both (as noted by the green circles) called as BALLS.

The next pitch, Carlos Beltran wasted for a double.

Fourth inning, already 4-0.  The 1-1 pitch to Beltran was on the low inside corner of TBS's zone -- ball two.  Next pitch nearly went over the fence.  Kershaw was done, and the Dodgers got shelled the rest of the night.

By the time that the umpires were done squeezing Clayton Kershaw (which they had been doing to the Dodger pitching the entire series, as people watching the pitch-trackers were noting), Kershaw had thrown 80 pitches in three innings, 50 in the third alone, and the game and series were over.

• Much to the delight of TBS announcers, who seemed to be openly cheerleading for the Cardinals for most of the series.

OK, Selig, I get it.  You don't like the New Evil Empire.

Or is it that you believe the Dodgers to be self-entitled twats?  (If you believe that, I'll point you a bit closer -- the team the Dodgers defeated in the NLDS AND the team the Dodgers "lost to" in the NLCS...)

I came up with a theory, and I spoke to at least one Southern California baseball fan about it tonight.  I believe Bud Selig, in a vain effort to try to get "his game" to compete with The National Religion, wants to not only make it more confrontational (meaning more fights, punches, beanballs, etc.), but also to publicly decry it while privately encouraging it (as long as you are NOT the $230,000,000 Dodgers!!).

You thought the Dodgers were bad about it this year?  You just gave these guys a chip on the shoulder for next year.  We're already going to have a massive brawl the first time the Dodgers and Diamondbacks meet next season.  The Dodgers and Padres aren't exactly exchanging Christmas cards either.  The Giants?  That's obvious...

But it's clear, Mr. Selig, that you want baseball played "the right way":  Fuck with people's heads, act like self-entitled twits (as long as you are NOT the Dodgers), and basically the team that was one of the last bastions of The Steroid Era gets to see their fourth World Series in 10 years.

Make...  me...  vomit.