MLB commisioner Bud Selig will have more to think about than how he can promote the MLB in Asia. After Tuesday’s All-Star game, it’s become painfully clear the MLB desperately needs a new third league.

The simple AL/NL combination will no longer suffice and a third “Crybaby” league needs to be added for the Yankees and Red Sox to play in. In this new league, the Yankees and Red Sox would only play each other all season long culminating in a yearly Boston vs. New York World Series and they would even have their own All-Star game with teams comprised of only Yankee and Red Sox players.

TV ratings will skyrocket because the fans can kill each other in the stands not unlike a UFC battle royale. Sticks, knives, shanks, handguns and even weapons of mass destruction will be allowed into Fenway Park and Yankee stadium for the ensuing battle between the catharticly faithful. In case of a tie, Hank Steinbrenner and John Henry will be forced into a duel of honor at 50 paces with the last man standing dictating the victor.

Under this new system, the rest of the teams in the MLB will no longer be subjected to harassment by those two teams’ ill-mannered fans, nor will the other teams be forced to compete with the ridiculous payrolls both teams throw down to capture a championship.

The feuding between the two teams has hit an all-time low with the immature Yankees fans booing Red Sox players as they were announced in Tuesday night’s All-Star game but that’s enough for another topic entirely. The Red Sox dominated the AL All-star team balloting and Boston’s seven players were the most of any AL team, not including the Red Sox manager Terry Francona in the dugout along with a half-dozen of their coaches in the dugout as well.

Yankees fans were not too happy about the presence of the Sox players and they made it known but let’s face it, Red Sox fans would probably do the same thing if the game had been held at Fenway and the AL dugout were stuffed with Yankees players and coaches.

I think somebody forgot to tell Yankees and Red Sox fans that baseball is a game. Sportsmanship both on and off the field is mandatory for MLB baseball players but the fans forget that they should also have some modicum of respect for the game as the players do.

Here’s one for all the Sox fans in the house !!! Even though I’ll admit to liking the Sox (as my AL team of choice), this video is pretty hilarious !!

Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon was talking smack Wednesday night and clearly indicated that the Red Sox don’t believe their differences with the Tampa Bay Rays are a thing of the past. I’m really not certain why Papelbon is running his mouth at this point in the season, especially when he’ll likely be facing the Ray’s offense several more times during the year. Perhaps Red Sox manager Terry Francona needs to carry a roll of duct tape for Papelbon and use it to keep him from instigating the Rays.

Tempers flared between the Rays and Red Sox last week after Boston outfielder Coco Crisp made a hard slide into second baseman Akinori Iwamura. The following night, Coco Crisp was hit in the right hip by pitcher James Shields in the second inning. Crisp rushed the mound to confront Shields, ducked a wild right by Shields and mayhem ensued.

Papelbon was quoted as saying, “In my opinion, it is a bunch of bull what they did,” in reference to the incedent between Crisp and Shields that turned into a brawl. All I got to say is what comes around goes around, man.”

Later in the show Papelbon added,, “In my opinion, and the way I feel right now, this thing isn’t all settled and done, we still got to play them a few more times and I know when we go into Tropicana things will be a little different than when went in there last time.”

Major League Baseball issued the Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays eight suspensions totaling 38 games for the incident. The video of Coco Crisp charging the mound and the ensuing melee that followed is shown below for those of you haven’t already seen it.