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I’m a sports commissioner, and according to a recent Yahoo Sports article, I make less money than Gary Bettman. He made more money than me last year too.

It’s tough for me to admit that, mostly because I think I do a better job than the NHL Commissioner, but then I realized that most of us make less than $7.2 million per year.

So summer is winding down, and you’re looking for something to do before you’re stuck indoors again. Have you played any wiffleball yet? If not, don’t worry. There’s still time, and everybody has to start somewhere. Even us.

When we started, we were all just a bunch of guinea pigs in an experiment. Over time, we learned what worked well, and what should be avoided. We tested the heck out of everything until we decided on the best way to play, and we continued to make changes when needed.

I originally thought about starting a BASEketball league, but I’m not the most intimidating person, and knew I’d struggle with psych-outs, so I decided to go with wiffleball instead. I think it worked out pretty well for us.

There’s a 104 days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. So the annual problem for our generation, is finding a good way to spend it.

Like maybe… playing wiffleball.

OK, so we borrowed a few lines from the Phineas and Ferb opening song, which is performed by wiffleball fans Bowling for Soup (above), who took the time to pose with a wiffleball for us.

Phineas and Ferb always seem to do a bunch of cool stuff, but to our knowledge, they haven’t played wiffleball yet. There’s still time though, even for you.

On Wednesday, Alex Rodriguez, or “Al”, as Joe Girardi referred to him, skipped Yankees team photo day and went on to hit his 600th career home run off Shaun Marcum, the only active Major League Baseball player that spells his first name the same way that I do.

While that sounds impressive, if you look at the numbers a little more closely, you’ll see that Major League Wiffleball Home Run King Mike Breen is a much better home run hitter than A-Rod.

A-Rod homers on average every 14.5 at bats, which is disappointing in comparison to Mike Breen who averaged one home run every 5.28 at bats throughout his career.