The MLB season is getting longer and longer, with more spring training games and pre-season exhibition games in MLB parks, topped by the expanded playoff format.

Americans couldn’t care less about this farce of a tournament, but the international community is a bit more on board.

They’re the folks to whom this show is directed, and the health and durability limitations of the players are being completely ingored in the process.

Pitchers are particularly vulnerable to increased stress and fatigue. Mike Timlin’s presence in the last tournament was as absurd as it was inappropriate.

Baseball will stop at virtually nothing to prostitute its players out for an extra buck, whether it be unsafe playing conditions like the hill in Houston or the lack of dirt warning tracks in Tampa Bay, playing in driving rainstorms and freezing cold…or coercing players into playing in an inane exhibition like the WBC.

Even the new Red Sox owners have systematically and shamelessly replaced all of the padding along the left field wall with sheet metal advertising, though you’ll never read that in this hack-filled town.