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Originally Posted by Mark17
+1 Best thing to me is that the players were clearly having fun and that was contagious. I used to be a pitcher-catcher so those conversations brought back memories of my playing days. At first I thought it was odd the catcher (Trevino) kept asking the pitcher what he wanted, rather than calling the game himself, but then I realized he was catching those guys for the first time, so they weren't familiar with each other.
The uniforms were terrible. In football, uniforms of the 2 teams need to contrast for obvious reasons, but in baseball, much less so. It was much better when players wore their regular unis. If MLB wanted to sell more shirts, just issue a new set to the participants with a special patch, like they used to.
I was glad the MVP went to games at that same ballpark, and sat in left field where he hit his home run, when he was a youngster. Baseball starts as a game for kids and remembering that is cool.
In summary, this was the most entertaining game I've seen in quite some time.
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I don't disagree about the uniforms, but Trevino and Cortes are teammates and very familiar with each other. I expect the reason Trevino went with whatever the pitcher wanted had more to do with the fact that it was an exhibition, he was only going to throw for an inning or so, and knew what felt to be his better stuff at the time.
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