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Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1631
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 8:19 am: |     |
I was reading a long interview with Bud Selig in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Maybe I'm falling for a good PR campaign, but I've always thought he has a tough job and gets a lot of unfair press. It's a tough time to be Commissioner. I like a lot of what he has to say in the interview.
Regarding last year's game he basically says, not in so many words, that the managers mismanaged the game and left it in a situation where he had no choice but to do what he did. There's lots of blame to go around and I do blame the managers more than anyone else. The problem, as Selig says, is that the managers went into the game not caring who won or lost.
I came out of that game saying that they had lost me, and that a game that used to be special and important had been irretrievably ruined. But I like this idea they've done with home field advantage in the world series. Any smart players in that game should care more about it than they have in the past. After all, I think the home team has won the last 7 or 8 World Series game 7s. I can forgive Barry Bonds skipping the game because his father is ill and he wants to spend time with him, but players should care about the All Star game and baseball should be doing more to make them care. I always thought it was cool that one game a year I could root for all the players I normally rooted against because there was this even more evil league to root against.
So I will watch the game after all and I'll root for the National League and I hope the players play hard. |
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