MLB did its job on Saturday. It made money. That’s its very plain goal with anything it does. The Speedway Classic will go down as one of the great missed opportunities in American professional sports,

It was a spectacle, to be sure, but unfortunately a wet one for Major League Baseball's attempt at an all-time attendance record.

The game was called off late Saturday evening, in the bottom of the first inning with the Cincinnati Reds up one run on the Atlanta Braves.