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2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Gehrig, Mar 30, 2013.

  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    The fact that it was in Milwaukee also added to the Perfect Selig Storm.
     
  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I am not sure why Selig caught all the heat for that debacle. Didn't the two managers (Torre and Brenly?) come up to Selig and say "we don't have any more pitchers"?
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Nobody cares about the All-Star Game. Check that. Nobody cares who wins the All-Star Game. I'm not above it all. I'm not too cool. I'm the 99 percent.

    But, suddenly, everybody cared.

    The criticism was just misplaced. The problem wasn't that baseball didn't have a plan in place to resolve an All-Star Game tie. The problem was that baseball was trying to act like the game's result actually mattered to begin with. They always have, and I've never, ever gotten it, at least after interleague play was instituted.

    Baseball is, by nature, the best All-Star Game because people can try hard without risking injury. So why try to force the other stuff on people?
     
  4. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    I thought this was discussed to death in 2002, 2003, 2004 ...
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    But as long as the game still "counts," it's still a relevant topic.
     
  6. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Do we still remember Dime Beer Night, and Disco Demolition Night? We do. Same thing with the 2002 All-Star Game except there wasn't a riot. Just the national pastime tripping over its own dick as only it can to the delight of millions.
     
  7. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member


    Let's be sure to get the ones who didn't vote for Rickey Henderson and quite a few others who should have been unanimous.

    Rivera's not going to be unanimous. Nobody will as long as jackasses who misuse their votes continue to get to keep them.
     
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I am so outraged that an exhibition game ended in a tie.
     
  9. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Because technically, the rules say that a pitcher can go 3 innings. The last time it happened was Maddux in '94. As a kid, I remember the starter would usually go 3 innings, unless he got lit up.

    With a dozen, or more pitchers on the staff, they should never have run out of pitchers. Babying their arms, and the desire to get everyone in the game, caused them to run out.
     
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    People were outraged because there was a festering national resentment over the decline of the three-inning All-Star outing?
     
  11. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    You're overstating "outrage." The mood was more one of mockery, and the incident (and especially the visuals) were another good example of baseball gone wrong. (Which it really was at the time.)

    In any case, there's certainly no outrage 11 years later.
     
  12. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    No, there was, as LTL said, mockery. Looking at the boxscore, the AL had three pitchers go two innings, the NL had two. You had Barry Zito pitching 1/3 of an inning.

    Also, back then, pitchers could be named to the team, but not pitch because they had thrown over the weekend, making them unavailable and taking up a roster spot. MLB finally changed that rule a few years ago, where if a pitcher can't pitch, they're not on the roster.
     
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