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To: rawhide; trumandogz; buccaneer81; Venturer; Abbeville Conservative; mainepatsfan; proudpapa; ...
Selig has already wrecked baseball beyond recognition. As an older fan, I'd like to get rid of the leftist bufoon. When you had eight teams in each league (or even ten or twelve) without the dumb interleague play, fans not only knew the players are their team, but just about all the players on the opponents. With so many players on so many teams and such a high level of player movement, even a fanatic of average intelligence doesn't know the skills or lack thereof and the backgrounds of all the players. In other words, you can't keep track of it without a handy computer (and a good knowledge of Spanish and Japanese) and can't really appreciate the strategy.

And that's not the end of it, not by far. I can list at least two dozen changes for the worse from the dedicated American fan's point of view - starting of course with ridiculously high prices for admission and overly pampered athletes not 100% into competing. And Selig is the poster boy for much of it.

More expansion? Is he kidding?

83 posted on 06/11/2011 4:10:41 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

In Hartford every year they play a few teams in what is know as Base Ball. It is played with period rules, uniforms and equipment. It’s fun, sporting and a good up close look at what might have been


99 posted on 06/11/2011 7:13:25 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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