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MLB All-Star Game no longer will decide home-field advantage
NY Post ^ | 1 December 2016 | AP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: allstar; baseball; mlb
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To: Alberta's Child

ONE - ONE opening day game in Cincinnati got “snowed out”. 1979 against San Diego and it wasn’t snowed out. They played the game after a delay.

Cleveland, Boston, Montreal, Detroit, Toronto, Minneapolis, Chicago - all much more prone to snow on opening day.


61 posted on 12/01/2016 7:17:04 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Somewhere Jeb weeps. (please clap))
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To: Buckeye McFrog

LOL.


62 posted on 12/01/2016 7:17:15 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: oh8eleven

And KILL inter-league play!!!!! Deteriorates the All-Star Game and the World Series. Either add or detract teams in each league to get an even number (15 in each now) to make intRA league schedules feasible again. I have no objection to bringing Montreal back into the league. Hell, give Mexico City a team.


63 posted on 12/01/2016 7:20:41 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Somewhere Jeb weeps. (please clap))
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To: IrishBrigade

and as long as the defending team doesn’t give up a TD right off the bat, the rules basically revert to sudden death...

slight correction; as long as the defending team forces a punt, the rules revert to sudden death; if a FG is made on the opening drive, then it’s the first team to six points...and as long as we’re talking FG’s, how about a sliding point scale, depending on how far the team has penetrated the defense...? four points if the LOS is inside the ten yard line, three for a LOS 11-23, two for 24-32, and one point for any LOS 33 and further...


64 posted on 12/01/2016 7:20:52 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Don't forget NY ...
65 posted on 12/01/2016 7:26:24 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
I thought for sure they postponed one opener in the 1980s due to snow. I know the 1971 opener was snowed out.

No argument from me on any of those others. You can add New York and Pittsburgh to the mix -- or even the place most likely of all to have snow early or late in the season: DENVER.

Keep in mind that the MLB season used to start several weeks later than it does now. I believe it was only a few years ago that we saw the first regular-season game played in the month of March.

66 posted on 12/01/2016 7:26:54 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: oh8eleven

“Play some World Series games in the afternoon so kids can watch it again.”

in my sixth grade year, due to building expansion, classes were split, and I drew the afternoon session, which normally I loved, but we were there till 4:45 PM, causing me to miss the sweetest, most dramatic WS event ever...Mazeroski’s walk off homer, beating the loathed NY Yankees...


67 posted on 12/01/2016 7:28:06 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade
“Play some World Series games in the afternoon so kids can watch it again.”

And ditch all those Viagra and Cialis ads for the same reason.


68 posted on 12/01/2016 7:30:16 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: showme_the_Glory
Yes, once again the "all star" game is completely worthless. A bunch of prima dona's, most of which aren't even American citizens, half-heartedly (lest they get injured and seriously damage themselves and their careers) playing an exhibition T Ball game that means absolutely nothing!

It's all about getting suckers to cough up the money, nothing more.

69 posted on 12/01/2016 7:32:59 AM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

And ditch all those Viagra and Cialis ads for the same reason

seems a pretty stiff price to pay, no...?


70 posted on 12/01/2016 7:36:34 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade
due to building expansion, classes were split, and I drew the afternoon session
Wow, me too. But I played hooky that day - as a Yankee fan I just had to see game 7.
71 posted on 12/01/2016 7:39:36 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: poinq

“If I ain’t startin I ain’t departin.”


72 posted on 12/01/2016 7:42:55 AM PST by freefdny
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To: oh8eleven

I know, right????

I am a baseball purist and Tiger fan. First game I ever saw in person was a Nolan Ryan no-hitter at Tiger Stadium in 1973.


73 posted on 12/01/2016 7:50:58 AM PST by del4hope (My tagline was hijacked in 2008)
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To: poinq

You got it...strategy!


74 posted on 12/01/2016 7:58:10 AM PST by del4hope (My tagline was hijacked in 2008)
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To: oh8eleven

This changes ...... nothing

This year's World Series had five of the seven games won by the visiting team.

75 posted on 12/01/2016 7:59:21 AM PST by Dilbert56
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To: oh8eleven

Haha. That reminds me of a funny story regarding kids and day games.

As you know, Detroit is a baseball obsessed town. While I was there in Jr High back in 72, the Tigers were playing Oakland in the AL Playoffs.

While I was in the school office for whatever reason I cannot recall, I do vividly remember this one event that occurred as if it was yesterday. There was this other student who was in the office. He was coming up with every excuse in the book to check out of school so he could go home and watch the game (or go to the game, I am not quite sure). The office secretary was having none of his shenanigans, as evidently this was a common ploy with many students that particular day. Eventually the young man took out a cigarette and actually starting smoking in the office. An offense worthy of suspension, which happened.

I remember thinking he was crazy as he left with a grin on his face to get to see the Tigers play. Tigers lost the series to the A’s.

So you see what day games do for kids?


76 posted on 12/01/2016 8:27:03 AM PST by del4hope (My tagline was hijacked in 2008)
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To: del4hope

Funny story

I was in 5th grade that year, and my teacher dragged a TV into the classroom so that we all could watch it

I have been a lifelong fan since then

Bert campaneris and gene tenace still piss me off


77 posted on 12/01/2016 8:34:53 AM PST by QualityMan (I will not comply.)
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To: del4hope
So you see what day games do for kids?
Sadly, none of the kids today will ever have great stories to tell like we do.
Maybe even worse, none of today's kids will know what the end of a live WS game looks like either.
78 posted on 12/01/2016 8:35:30 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

They can play all the games in Cuba for all I cair. ;-)


79 posted on 12/01/2016 8:51:19 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: QualityMan

Gene Tenace. Another guy the Pirates went out and signed when he could no longer run. Or hit. Or field.


80 posted on 12/01/2016 9:03:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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