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If the All-Star Game determine home field advantage?
A few years ago, MLB went out with a new rule that the game would be Stars forever determine home-field advantage for the World Series. My question is: If the game stars play a role in the World Series? The response? NO!
Considering that all the stars of the games of antiquity were taken very seriously (remember Pete Rose famous collision at the plate?) Today, the All-Star Game is more useful as an evening of fun and an honor for those deemed worthy of included. As the NBA dunk contest and three-point contest, the Derby Major League home run and cheerful, the atmosphere charged with paparazzi have cemented MLB All-Star Game in the minds of fans and players as a center of entertainment activity of the season, not a competitive game. So why a night Triumph Baseball nonchalant an entire season of hard work? Imagine - I give the Mets for 162 games and finished the season with a hard-fought and well deserved record of 104 victories and 58 defeats. The Yankees, however, squeak into the playoffs with a record of 50-50 in the wild card and make a fortune in the World Series. In Furthermore, adding the fate that brought them to the World Series, the Yankess not the Mets, getting a field advantage because the American League won the All-Star Game. It only seems a little unfair? However, it is the reality of Major League Baseball today.
Ok, but it seems as if the rule pointelss entirely, saying that the players go with it, and accept the fact that they have to win the All-Star game to gain an advantage on the ground. The result? Players who have a real chance of reaching the World Series is probably the best way possible. But others are not. Just think of Barry Bonds world. Yes, he will receive the invitation, because, steroids or not, is a running machine at home. But how long do you think it will in the game? Maybe one or two at-bats to the crowd please. For the rest of the game, he will do just that - rest. And if you lot of the best players in the league, because they do not want the risk of injury. Therefore, even if a player does everything to win the game when his team can take country house, in doing so it will be difficult considering how other players will be anything but reliable, with an option for some mid-season R & R..
Moreover, why a player of a team must rely on players from opposing teams who have nothing to do with your computer or your success? From where I sit, the state simply did not make sense. Do you think that any respectable league do what the MLB did? No, because they understand that the reward teams that make the effort to win, not by chance that the team has the chance to be the winning side of a disposable tribute to the best players in the league.
In sports, the rules are a necessity. Without them, you can not play. But it is a rule that simply makes no sense and should be deleted.
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Nishan Wilde is VP of Sales for RobbinsSports.com, an online resource for Gym Bags, Portable Scoreboards, Basketball Uniforms and Track Uniforms.
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How long do players play in the All Star game?
Currently watching the 2010 All Star Game but how long exactly do they play? I heard pitchers get 2 innings i think. But what about the DH? I heard that usually DH play the entire game without get a Pinch Hitter, does that apply in the ASG?
Ummm...for DH, tis the same as for any hitter. The starters usually get 2 at-bats and no more. Then they get subbed out.
For the pitchers, the starters get 2 innings assuming they arent getting knocked around. And each reliever usually gets somewhere between 1-3 outs.