Having missed two columns to my annual formaldehyde blood spins, let’s not waste time writing the pithy. Catch-up formation on “Hut.” (Hmm, wonder where “hut” came from.) Hut! 

It’s all a con continued: When MLB introduced interleague play, thus further homogenizing the two leagues, “Bottom Line” Bud Selig proudly boasted that “it’s a gift to fans.” And compliant media, having already rolled over, played dead. 

But from Day 1, it proved a con as team owners, with Selig’s approval and/or neglect, allowed teams to boost the price of tickets to interleague games. 

Even after Barry Bonds was busted, teams raised prices when the Middle-Aged, Large-Headed, Mass-Muscled Carnival Creature came to town. So what that Bonds would be intentionally walked or not even play. And the media took that lying down, too.