In the 1934 movie “You’re Telling Me!” W.C. Fields says he “bought a wonderful club in Toronto,” then tells his caddie, “Give me the Canadian Club.”
By the time MLB’s “Players’ Weekend” ended, no elixir was strong enough to clear or further dull the mind of the systemic senselessness.
But MLB never runs low on rotten ideas. It suffers from advanced nearsightedness while self-deluded into practicing the kind of innovative thinking that guarantees a maximum of unintended, unforeseen, ridiculous circumstances. So does the NFL.
Thus, our question for commissioner/marketing genius Rob Manfred:
Given that every game for three consecutive days appeared the same — Johnny Cash and the San Quentin 9 versus the psychiatric facility security detail from the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” — which game or games did he choose to watch?