This time it hurts
Okay, Bud, can we drop the whole “the All Star Game should be important” spiel now? Sure, yeah, great, last All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium goes extra innings, that’s a good story. But let’s look at what that meant. It meant that both managers had to go to their “emergency only” pitcher, the pitcher who had thrown 100+ pitches only two days earlier. Interestingly enough, both of emergency pitchers (Brandon Webb and Scott Kazmir) were staff aces of division rivals for the All Star Game managers. Now, fortunately, nothing went wrong, that we saw. But can you imagine the hell that would be raised if Webb had gotten hurt because the Rockies manager decided he had to run him out there for an inning? Oh, but they had to, Bud- because you already decided that this thing couldn’t end in a tie. The Orioles management must be pretty unhappy, too, watching their closer run out there for over two innings.
And what if it hadn’t worked out? What if the AL hadn’t scored off Lidge? Well, according to Yahoo! Sports, we weren’t too far off from seeing someone like J.D. Drew or David Wright as the pitchers of record. Seriously, Bud, do you really think that seeing Drew pick up the W is any better than a tie?
This experiment with making the All Star Game important has failed. Let’s make it back into an exhibition before this goes on too much longer.
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One Response to “This time it hurts”
July 17th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
The thing is that it really IS only an exhibition, so why not leave it that way? Get out there and play, go three or four extra innings if needed, and if it’s still tied, then fine. It’s over. Making it the determining factor for home field advantage is ridiculous and negates the records of the teams involved.
And also, if you don’t want your pitcher to pitch, don’t send him to the game. Or, let somebody else start on the Sunday before the ASG so that your team’s pitcher is rested and can play. It’s only an exhibition, no matter what Bud says.
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