Major League Baseball or MLB for short is the greatest standard of professional baseball played in the world. It consists of the teams that participate in the National League and the American League. Among the 30 teams that participate, 29 teams are from the United States and there is one team from Canada.
MLB manages both the International Baseball Federation as well as World Baseball Classic. The popularity of MLB is evident from the fact that the average attendance is over thirty thousand per game. In terms of attendance it is next only to NFL, Bundesliga, Premier League and AFL.
The celebrated MLB venue Fenway Park which recently became the cause of heartbreak for the fans of Red Sox has embarked upon a yet another new role. It has projected itself as a significant venue for the political events. It hosted one of the top political chat shows of the nation along with gracing the political campaigns of the presidential election fore-runner and Republican Mitt Romney as well as that of Scott Brown who is the local Senator.
On Friday, the prestigious park celebrated its 100th anniversary and the occasion has been looked forward by the top brass of the team as well as the entire city of Boston all this spring.
To mark the occasion, Romney and his wife Ann gave interview to the famous journalist Diane Sawyer of the ABC television. They were seated inside a Fenway sky box with the view of the ground in the background. Later h watched the match between Tampa Bay Rays and Red Sox. Red Sox lost the game.
John Henry the owner of Red Sox who at one point in time had campaigned for Democratic John Kerry as well as donated considerable amount in the Democratic funds displayed bipartisanship by opening the ballpark
However, very few were happy and convinced by Romney’s credibility as a faithful member of the Red Sox team.
When asked by a journalist whether Romney supports his home state team Detroit Tigers or the team Red Sox, he sounded diplomatic by taking the side of the Boston Club.”Goodness, for Red Sox, I am scared”, he said. “I have been living in Massachusetts for the past 40 years”, he chirped.
He could not leave the Detroit team either. He was quick to add that, “There is no doubt of the fact that I am a Tigers’ fan from my childhood days”. He is not alone as many a high profile politicians like Barack Obama are now pitching for MLB teams.

There is no need for the Nashville Predators to measure themselves with comparison to Detroit Red Wings. A score was obtained in 13 seconds. It led to the advancement of the Predators to the semifinal with a victory of 2-1 against Red Wings.
The series was won 4-1 by the Predators, thus capping the season in which their Central division rival was laid back by them for the first time, and the red Wings were beaten for the very first time in the series of three playoffs. Nash21ville even succeeded to defeat the Red Wings, making their departure easier, after they lost a six-game in the first round of NHL against Edmonton in the year 2006.
Barry Trotz who happens to be the coach of Nashville commented that a gold standard was given to the Detroits by the Central Division and even by the Predators. Trotz proudly said,” We have reached the point of great respect towards Detroit Red Wings, but we’re not going to be in awe of them.” He also rightly said,” The event of the Detroit getting beaten by us in the first round may be considered as the right step in the right direction and a stepping stone for us at the same time.
The first team that advanced this postseason was the Nashville, which made them face the third-seeded Phoenix in the second round. Chicago was put back by the Coyotes with 3-1. A Nashville forward, named Alexander Radulov said, “The time for celebration has not yet come since Nashville has cleared only the first round.”
An assist was added by Legwand and Nashville was assisted by the goal of Radulov. Nashville was the team which won each game of NHL by scoring first. A score for Detroit was given by Jiri Hurdler which resulted into the loss of three games. Lidstrom said that he hasn’t yet decided whether he is going to come back in the summer.
The coach of Detroit, Mike Babcock thought that the Red Wings had played quite well until the fifth game of the series, which now is called as the worst. The Nashville Predators achieved victory in the final three of the series by allowing four goals and finally outshot and outhit of the Red Wings was clearly seen. Legwand, who gave the winning shot, is a native of the Detroit Area, also faced the achievement of scoring a wrister off the assists from forwards like Radulov and Gabriel Bourque.