Yep... and I hate hypoethticals, but I feel like if it this

Posted on: January 21, 2019 at 11:00:07 CT

happened in reverse, there would be a massive overhaul this offseason.

If the Chiefs had won the toss and scored a TD... they would change the rules to accommodate the "injustice" that happened to a Boston team.

Because the pro sports leagues don't let anything bad happen to their precious NY or Boston teams.

Baseball is same way. Didn't matter that bad calls by umps on home runs had always happened. Didn't matter to the MLB in 1996 when a Yankee fan reached over and gave a HR to Jeter that should have been an out for Baltimore.

Didn't matter in Sept 1998 when McGwire had a home run stolen from him by a stupid Ump that didn't see it go 15 feet behind the wall and hit a beam. All that mattered that season was a the single season home run record and the most exciting thing to happen to the sport in baseball history.

There was no change in rule until poor Alex Rodriguez of the NY Yankees had a home run that got called wrong. Only after it negatively affected the NY Yankees... did baseball, all of the sudden, make a drastic beeline for a rule change.

Same goes for the 2nd base break up on a double play. We'd seen it for over a century. It's an exciting play... sometimes it results in injury.

But it only mattered to the league when it was a NY Met that got injured.

Just a few weeks earlier, the Pirates cleanup hitter broke his leg and was lost for the season on much more egregious slide by the Cubs.

But it didn't matter... because the Pittsburgh Pirates are not a Northeastern NY or Boston team.