An Ugly Reality For Major League Baseball, and a frightening view of it's future...

Last night stung for my anonymous friend the Dodger Fan...

And the more I think about it, the more I truly believe it was bullshit -- if it got my friend, who reads and contributes (yet still believes there sometimes is too much emphasis on the game-rigging) to state, full score, the game is rigged against the Dodgers...

And why?

• #HoustonStrong?
• Hatred of the Dodgers??
• California went Democratic, Texas went Republican???
• or something that my anonymous friend came up with tonight that could be frightening...

We know, as of right now, the NBA is a 1.05 team league.  Don't let the two early losses fool you, it's Golden State, plus about .048 of Cleveland, with a smattering of Houston and San Antonio and the like running around.

Something a lot of people have objected to was the 7:10 Pacific start of many games, leading to their end past 1 AM Eastern or so, especially in these playoffs.

What if the goal is to get rid of the relevant players on the Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Mike Trout, maybe Buster Posey if he has some left, etc. and so forth and funnel them all to the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, and Cardinals?

What if the eventual goal is four superteams, all at the Mississippi River and eastward?

Look at what's happened already these playoffs?

• The Yankees just fired Joe Girardi today, a few days after falling one game short of the World Series in a REBUILDING YEAR.  But, as people have pointed out, it's all about the "Drive for 28" -- ANYTHING not a World Series is a failed season in the Bronx!
• On a separate consideration, because it's clear the John Farrell lost the Red Sox team completely and it wouldn't have mattered if they won the title, but Farrell was also fired.
• The Cubs fired their entire coaching staff, it seems, sans Joe Maddon, today.  Pitching coach, hitting coach, bench coach, gone.
• The Nationals fired Dusty Baker after losing to the Cubs.
• Nothing from the Diamondbacks, Twins, Indians (their pitching coach was named Farrell's successor in Boston, but that's a promotion, not a firing) or Rockies.
• And then there's the situation with Dave Roberts in Los Angeles...

Yes, Wednesday night's Game 2 was rigged, but Roberts didn't help matters with Chase Utley at second base, and then basically running his bullpen completely out to finish the game in regulation (which, between the umpiring and probably substituting even more-juiced balls later in the game, wasn't going to happen)...

(Evidence:  Last night's power explosion in extra innings was the first time in Major League Baseball history that five home runs were hit in extra innings -- regardless of the type of game!  The eight home runs hit in the game were a World Series record.)

Reminded of Game 4 in Chicago for the NLCS, where Utley and Curtis Granderson were brought out of mothballs....

Girardi being fired greatly increases the chances that, hook or crook, if the Dodgers don't win the World Series, the Dave Roberts Watch is going to have to start.

It's clear that, for some reason, the media nor MLB wants the Dodgers to succeed in any way.  Is there a desire to break this team up for the benefit of the creation of superteams Mississippi River and eastward?

Consider the ticking clock:  Clayton Kershaw can opt out after next season...  Meaning, Roberts or whoever has the reins for the Dodgers may have this year and next to win a title...