MLB World Series 2011: Bud Selig Doing Horrible Job Selling World Series to Fans

We have arrived at the World Series, the event kids would skip school for and teachers would allow for fear of being unpatriotic. Times, they have done changed. 

The World Series is no longer headline news. It's an event that takes place in spite of the NFL and NBA lockout. Both items supersede the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals battling out what looks to be a full seven-game series. 

This postseason has been epic. There has been bad blood, fine pitching and marvelous plays, and you have all missed it. 

I don't blame you. Major League Baseball has done little to reach out to the fans the way other leagues do. The marketing mastery of the NBA and the watch this or die mentality of the NFL is vacant under Bud Selig's watch. 

It's amazing that in this age, Selig and the MLB would want to keep a tight lid on this World Series thing. I hear it could be quite epic, but it's too bad I have to search high and low for coverage or for anyone that cares. 

The path for Selig is there if he is so interested in saving the World Series from obscurity. Fans still want to watch the games, they just have to pay to watch the games online. 

Fans would love to watch from their cubicles in secret like they do during March Madness. Only they don't want to fork over the cash to do it. 

MLB could follow suit with what CBS does in allowing the coverage of every game to be had for free online. The playoffs would be something that everyone could see and rally behind. 

Instead of looking for TBS, or searching for a bar to go to during a day game, the fans would have access in keeping with the times. 

Baseball would rather stay decades in the dark. That would be fine if they enjoyed the same interest level as they did decades ago, but they don't. 

Something has to be done because the World Series is Wednesday, and all the media wants to discuss is a handshake and a mediocre trade of Carson Palmer to the Raiders. 

MLB is wasting away as fans care less and less about its all-important series. The Fall Classic is hardly a classic to anyone, anymore, and that matters. 

It's time we save baseball from obscurity.