For sports brothers Randy and Jason Sklar, the end of basketball's March Madness means the baseball season is just beginning. But after the World Baseball Classic, they're not feeling all that excited about the upcoming race to the World Series.
ALEX CHADWICK, host: From basketball to baseball, opening day is Sunday. Here are the sports brothers, Jason and Randy Sklar.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Hey, Jay. Remember when opening day actually meant something in baseball?</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Yeah, I do, Rand. It was in 2005.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: Now opening day is just an afterthought, a post-cursor.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: That's not even a word.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: I don't care. Make no bones about it. No matter what anybody says, opening day 2006 is just an epilogue to the World Baseball Classic. A baseball classic that I might add featured a USA-less...</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: Again, not a word.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: Again, don't care. A USA-less semi-final and final. I'm sorry, that's just wrong.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: Well, I agree with you there. Not to get all jingoistic or anything, but baseball is America's national pastime. Now we've come to find out that there are at least four other countries in the world that are better than us at our game.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: It taints this whole 2006 Major League Baseball season.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: In November, after someone wins the World Series and calls themselves the world champion, that proclamation simply will not be true.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: In our minds, if you truly want to call yourselves the world champions, you've got to beat Japan, the World Baseball Classics champions first to earn that title.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: I'd go so far as to say that until we unseat Japan as baseball's true world champion, we are no longer allowed to sell beer and hot dogs in our major league ballparks; instead, only sushi and sake.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: Let's take it one step further. Let's rewrite the lyrics to Take Me Out to the Ballgame to include the line buy me some munagi and salmon roe, I don't care if I ever go home.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: Well, that's all good and well. But first, we need to rename our World Series so that it more accurately represents the scope of the league. And here's where you and I disagree, Rand. I think from now on we should call the World Series the America's Cup.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: And I think that's ridiculous.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: Why?</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: Because you're going to get tons of hate mail from the Dennis Connor fan club. Yachting aficionados everywhere will rise up and blog you into oblivion.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: Well, we'll just put another P and an E at the end of cup and make it different, America's Cuppe.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: You just made it European.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: Fine. What's your suggestion?</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: We call it the National Championship.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: Okay. Number one: that's college basketball. Number two: that's college football. And number three: that ignores the entire American League.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: Fine. What about the American National Baseball Tournament Championship?</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. R. SKLAR: Mmm, too terse.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: How about the American National Baseball Tournament Championship and Performance-Enhanced Player Best of Seven Jamboree? Or we could call it the Fall Classic.</s>Mr. RANDY SKLAR (Sportscaster): Mr. J. SKLAR: I like that, too.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: Sports brothers Randy and Jason Sklar. Their TV show, Cheap Seats, is on ESPN Classics.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: Mr. R. SKLAR: Whatever. You know that we're going to have to watch this entire 2006 season under protest.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: Mr. J. SKLAR: I do.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: Mr. R. SKLAR: Now, can we just talk about something a little less controversial, like Barry Bonds breaking the homerun record?