Pass the buck -- I've got a few million more

First, let me say that I don't like the unbalanced schedule in Major League Baseball. I don't like the idea that a team in another division comes to town only once (if that much), especially if I want to see them and they come in April or May when the pollen count in Atlanta is around 87 billion.

Having said that....

Every time there's a fight or the start of a fight or anything else bad between two teams in the same division, the players, the commentators, and everyone else in sports blames the unbalanced schedule. "Oh, these guys have to play each other so much; there's going to be bad blood between them."

Say that again, and stop before the word "each".

PLAY!!!!

(insert over-used, but true, stuff about millions of dollars and little boys' game here)

All around the world, there are people who work with the same people hundreds of times a year -- not 19. And some of the folks out there in the workplace are bigger jerks than even Roger Clemens. But when's the last time you heard about a brawl breaking out at IBM?