INTERLEAGUE PLAY
Interleague play got underway last night with Pittsburgh/Texas, Cincinnati/Oakland, and Houston/Seattle. I was never a fan of interleague play, but I'm smart enough to know that it is here forever. Really though it exists for three reasons...
1)Mets/Yankees
2)White Sox/Cubs
3)So the Yankees or Cubs can come to different cities

I always thought that for every good series you get (i.e. Mets/Yankees) you get tons of scheduling fodder (Montreal/Kansas City, Pittsburgh/Texas, San Francisco/Tampa Bay, etc). The real question is that do the costs outweigh the benefits?

Each team plays 12-18 interleague games, which I think is too many. I never understood why, for example, the Brewers will play Minnesota six times this season but will only play teams in the NL East and NL West that many times as well. It would be best for interleague play to be reduced to a maximum of twelve games every year and maybe even as low as six or nine. That way you get your big rivalries but not at the cost of so many garbage games that makes you wonder why interleague play ever began in the first place.