Scott Boras wants to modernize the World Series.

In other words, he wants to monetize the World Series.

As if pro sport isn’t monetized enough.

My feelings about Boras have been well chronicled here at Brushbackpitch.com so I’ll keep this relatively short. But Boras told Playboy for its June edition, according to the Los Angeles Times, that if he were in charge, he’d make the series best of nine. He’d play the first two games at neutral sites with Game one on Saturday and Game two on Sunday with the remaining contests played in the markets of the participating teams.

Baseball’s big weekend would kick off with the announcements of the MVP and Cy Young awards, and the All-Star game’s Home run derby, one of the most overrated and stale events in all of pro sports, would be moved to a pre-World Series time as well, if Boras had his way.

“I want the World Series in Pittsburgh, Texas, Seattle,” he told the magazine. “Teams in those markets would sell more season tickets. World Series weekend would be a major stage for corporate events; it could advance the game to the next level.”

That’s big of him, since his money-grubbing and constant shuttling of free agents to New York and Boston are, in my opinion, the main reason it’s so hard for teams like Pittsburgh, Texas, Seattle, Kansas City, et al, to dream of seeing their teams in the World Series anytime soon.

Boras continues to delude himself into thinking that these are the ideas that would take the game to the next level when, in reality, for most markets, the best thing that could happen is real economic change that would put smaller markets on a true, at least near-level playing field with the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox and sometimes Dodgers, Cubs and Angels.

I think he should slow down and focus on ruining the game one piece at a time. He’s got the draft in his sights already – take that down and then focus on wrecking the Fall Classic. With clueless leadership in the league offices as well as at the MLB Players Association there’s no rush – he’ll have plenty of time to take down the rest of the game later.