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Posted By: David
the guy in Las Vegas who picked 'tie' for the All-Star game cleaned up. |
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Posted By: MW
David - |
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Posted By: David
Michael, I knew what I was saying was probably wrong, and was just making a joke. I figured that since a baseball game isn't techinically supposed to end in a tie, I could make up whatever I wanted. |
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Posted By: MW
I know you were only joking, but I think you bring up a very important point -- how to count "officially" ended baseball games as ties and how W-L records are affected (if at all). For instance, is a record of 0-0-1 better than 0-0-0??? I know it's not hockey, but.... |
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Posted By: John(z28jd)
There has been official games during the season that ended in ties,pitchers get no records(win/loss-wise) but all stats are added into the regular season totals as an official game. |
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Posted By: David
Okay, I rephrase: |
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Posted By: Brueso
...is Bud Selig. |
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Posted By: TBob
First let me say you have to feel a twinge of sympathy for someone as clueless as Selig having this happen to him in Milwaukee, his home city and whose hometwon Brewers are owned by his daughter (NAH, NO CONFLICT THERE!!!!!!) |
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Posted By: TBob
I don't know how it is in other parts of the country, but high school and American Legion baseball is suffering. Down South high school football coaches are now requiring attendance during the summer at weightlifting sessions and skull sessions for all players who hope to play in the Fall. Players must make 27 of the 28 meetings or not play. High school basketball coaches are pushing their players to play summer AAU basketball. Now in the South we have Spring practices for the football team. More and more the better athletes are having to choose between Baseball and football or basketball and baseball is coming in a distant third. Is it any wonder why you see fewer and fewer Black baseball players and more and more foreign baseball players? |
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Posted By: scott (runscott)
The fans vote for the team because the All-Star game is "for the fans". Well, we saw last night how much it was for the fans. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
pitched on Sunday, and Torre first said he wouldn't take him at ALL, and then modified it to "I'm going to use him very little." |
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Posted By: nolemmings (Todd)
An unbelievably lame excuse of a commisssioner uses an unbelievably lame excuse for calling the game. The health of the pitchers? GARCIA AND PADILLA WERE PITCHING ON 4 FULL DAYS' REST! They had not pitched since last Thursday. Their bodies are trained to throw 6 innings/100-120 pitches every 5 days. And they couldn't be asked to go a third inning? What $#%#%#$%#*$# is that? |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
if it wasn't the health of the players, what WAS his motive? I personally have no idea who would've won... |
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Posted By: scott (runscott)
he's trying to be buddies with both the players, who don't want to do anything more than show their faces for the games, the managers who don't want their babies' arms to get too tiwerd, and the (other owners) who want their investments back at work safely after the game. But then again, it could be his own personal genuine concern for poor Mr. Padilla - after all, 2 innings is a lot. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
The thing that hurt baseball moe than anything was the collusion ruling that forced owners to pay free agents they 'might' have gotten if the owners had not tried to show some fiscal sanity and hold down salaries. We can thank our wonderful court system for the current mess more than anyone else. I doubt seriously that salaries would be anywhere near what they are now if the owners had won the case instead of the palyers. Rich clubs and poor clubs would still be a problem, but this ruling just made it that much worse. |
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Posted By: TBob
The owners put arbitrators in place thinking they would be lackeys who would goose step to their tune. Surprise, surprise, they didn't. The owners had a chance to avoid this whole mess by giving in to the players on a few piddly requests but decided to be reminiscent of the owners of the 20's and 30's and not bend an inch. The result was arbitration, spiralling contracts and free agency. Most of the players could care less about anything but their pocketbooks but it was the owners who refused to bend and thus the whole game has broken. |
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Posted By: Jeff Obermeyer
Well, I guess I'll have to take the unpopular side of the debate here. Yes, it's true that Garcia was pitching on four days rest and could have gone longer... but let me ask you this - What is Garcia's job? His job is to win games for the Mariners, and if he goes six innings in the all-star game, he'll likely miss a start. One missed start by Garcia could mean one win for the M's... which could mean the difference between making the playoffs or playing golf in October. |
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Posted By: Harry
They should not have used all of their pitchers so early. So what if one of them does not get in? They are not obligated to play in the game. |
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Posted By: Marty
I stopped watching All-Star games years ago. There is a big deal made in the media about something that many of the players only care about because of their contract bonuses. Barry Bonds made a comment earlier this year about a regular season game that he was not paid to play extra innings. The other team sports play all of the players, but a player may return after coming out. This could be a change. |
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Posted By: Stephen Mitchell
The first All-Star Game (1933) featured 18 pitchers and players per side at a time when 8 teams comprised a league. Pitchers usually went the distance (9 or more innings) and relievers were rarely specialists. And, if memory serves, it wasn't the goal of either Mack or McGraw (or their early successors) to fit everyone into the game. |
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Posted By: Marc S.
a few years ago. It simply isn't fun to watch anymore. |
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Posted By: W.M.
Your right back then the goal was to win the game. But now no manager wants to stand up to any of these millinare babies and not play them even if it means losing. Sadly now days the game is a exhibition but tell that to Ray Fosse and Pete Rose back in the days of hard fought All Star games. Sad to see Selig and his pitch count puppets (Torre and Brenly) ruin what looked like a good game. |
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