Designated Hitler.
Posted on 12/01/2016 5:59:14 AM PST by oh8eleven
A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press the league that wins baseball’s All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series.
Instead, that will be determined by which pennant winner had the better regular season record.
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I imagine it would be a logistical nightmare to schedule a Game 7 in a neutral city and then cancel it on short notice if the series ends in six or fewer games.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Go Tigers.
The ASG was always meaningless. Even when they were stupidly having it decide home field in the WS. You really think people are rooting for “their” league on the off their actual team goes all the way? It’s an exhibition game, completely pointless, but sometimes fun.
I only watch when my team has three or more players representing. In those years there is a good chance my team makes the postseason.
But do the make the WS? It only matter for teams that make the Series.
Ah ha, a little mixing of politics and sports. Not gonna’ work :)
I don’t know if there are any differences left (save the DH). AL umpires used to wear enormous chest protectors that more or less forced them to be square behind the catcher. The NL umpires wore thinner chest protectors under their jackets and tended to crouch on one side or the other of the catcher.
The weak-hitting pitcher affects the strategy of the NL game. You have a pitcher who has been effective come up at a crucial part of the game. Do you keep him in or pull him for a pinch hitter? I’ll confess, I’m a life-long NL fan. The AL with its DH and the change it brings to the basic strategy of the game just doesn’t appeal to me.
Perhaps it’s a case of just getting older. The way things used to be done are often seen as better. I’m old enough to remember college football games where players played both offense and defense and quarter backs pretty much called their own game. It’s why I find I enjoy watching rugby on TV more than football.
Even a wildcard is a lottery ticket. In the WS, home-field advantage can be very important.
You’re right about that. My point is that the conditions for the ASG are written into the MLB-MLBPA collective bargaining agreement. I’m sure at some point the Players Association will decide that it’s not worth bargaining for it.
Now to get rid of that pesky DH nonsense.
as long as we’re talking about dumping dumb sports rules, how about that ridiculous college and high school overtime in football; do what the NFL currently does...I was at a high school game recently which ended at 14-14; after 4 OT’s the score wound up 42-39, an absurd score, given the overall defensive efforts, as well as a physically arduous process...in the NFL, in OT, there’s a kickoff, as normal, and as long as the defending team doesn’t give up a TD right off the bat, the rules basically revert to sudden death...
It can be, which is why it should be determined by the performance of the actual teams in the WS not a functionally random selection of players mostly not on those teams.
Designated Hitter AND interleague play during the regular season.
Thank God!!!!!
The All-Star should be as intended - a mid-summer exhibition of the leagues best. The players play for pride and respect of their league.
Bud Selig is the devil. His garbage “reforms” of the game need to be reversed.
Put Milwaukee back into the A.L. Put Houston back into the N.L. No more season opening overseas garbage. Can the DH. Play some World Series games in the afternoon so kids can watch it again. Restore traditions. No major league season can begin until a Cincinnati Red standing on the mound in Cincinnati throws the first pitch of the season. That was the tradition until Selig. It was a tradition honoring Cincinnati as the first professional franchise.
There's only other area where the AL and NL had different rules as recently as the last few years: the AL had a curfew for night games, while the NL did not. In an AL game, they were not allowed to start an inning after 1:00 AM unless there were special scheduling circumstances involved (typically if it was the last game of the season between the two teams, or one or both of the teams had their remaining off days committed to rescheduled games for rainouts). The NL didn't have a curfew rule, which sometimes resulted in long games ending early the next morning.
I remember an infamous game the Mets and Braves played in the 1980s one Fourth of July. There was a fireworks display scheduled after the game, which ended at almost 4:00 AM after 19 innings and two rain delays. They set off the fireworks anyway, causing all kinds of calls to the police department from people who thought there was some kind of industrial explosion early in the morning. LOL.
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