Their bad

 Here's a great big raspberry for you, haters. Baseball does so care about what the fans think, does so does so does SO.

This upon the news that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who can't seem to do a whole lot about the cheaters in his game, can at least admit when the once-upon-a-Pastime he oversees has stepped in it.

Therefore, he announced at the All-Star game that baseball would likely be scrapping the whole seven-inning doubleheaders idea.

And that the silliness of starting extra innings with a man on second is also out the gate.

They were two of baseball's dumber ideas to come down the pike in awhile, not counting dressing the NL and AL All-Stars in winter jammies last night (and what the hell was THAT?) Usually sports moguls are uncommonly stubborn about saying "Our bad," but not Rob Manfred. He freely copped to the dumbness, and promised it was being excised forthwith. Because MLB gives the fans what they want.

Well. Unless you're fans of the Baltimore Orioles, the Arizona Diamondbacks or my cruddy Pittsburgh Pirates, that is. We never get what we want.

What I want, for instance, is for the current owners of my Cruds to sell the team to someone who wants to actually try, and not just Hoover up those revenue-sharing dollars while trotting out a minor-league product.

Or better yet: Send the current owners down the Monongahela without a paddle. Or a boat, for that matter.

After all, they can always use their well-padded checkbooks as a flotation device.