No More Please!!!
No More Please!!! The New York Mets and the New York Yankees have been banned by Major League Baseball from being shown on national television for one year. Every game that has ever been played between the two teams has been on national television and MLB has had enough.

It used to be that the game of the week would actually be just that, the best game of that particular week. Now, the Saturday national telecast on FOX has simply been an extension of New York, Boston, and Chicago local sports stations.

"If the Mets and Yanks are playing, you can bet that they are on television nationally. That has to stop. We have dozens of teams in this league, and people get sick of watching just the New York teams," said commissioner Bud Selig.

He also stated in his statement that teams like Florida and Tampa Bay, while mostly useless as franchises, are playing good baseball and deserve to be on television once in a while. "If we as a league
do not put these teams on television, then nobody would even know they existed. There are wiffle ball games being played in Florida that draw bigger crowds then those teams," said Selig.

The Yankees were not happy with the ruling by the commissioner. Hank Steinbrenner has threatened to overturn the ruling. "We're the Yankees, if we want to be on television every day, then we should be able to. Rules for other teams do not apply to us. We are bigger than baseball. We are the Yankees,"said Steinbrenner in his usual manner of being respectful to nobody.

The Mets on the other hand, will go along with anything the Yankees want to do. "They are the Yankees. Whatever they want to do, that's what we'll support. The Yankees can't be wrong, so their opinion must be followed," said Mets owner Fred Wilpon.

The first non Yankee-Mets game on FOX is expected this Saturday. They will show the Diamondbacks and Marlins instead. They are anticipating a television rating of negative 342 for the game.