All-Star No Shows

A couple of days? Baseball starts back up today. Under your plan, baseball wouldn't start back up for 4 more days. Game 5 of last year's World Series was played on November 1st. Under your plan, that game wouldn't have been played until November 5th. If it had gone to a 7th game, then we're looking at November 8th, at minimum for the World Series to mercifully end. Are you Ok with November baseball?

 

Jeter showed his true colors years ago when the City & state of NY had to take him to court for back taxes....his claim is that since he keeps a home in FLA he doesnt have to pay NY Taxes ( come on you play for the Yankees). Next he doesnt offer this kid some renumeration for the baseball? Total jerk!!!

 

So if you work in Philly and live in NJ, you ought to pay both? But that's another thread.

Lopez got lots for doing what he wanted to do. Jeter is a jerk because the guy does the right thing and gives him back the ball. btw, here's a follow up article about his tax problems and what is being done.

I am a fan of Jeter, so I'll defend him. You may be the only person of all the people who play with him and against him who think he's a "total jerk". But then you're much closer to him than any of them are. :laugh:

 

No No....I would have payed the kid & been at the all star game....but perhaps because your a Florida boy & he was down in fla....maybe your closer to him.

Well I guess you dont have to work in NY then.....at least thats what NY does to Jersey & Connecticut people who work in the City. Pay or dont play. I guess he can go play for one of the Florida teams (they do seem to hire the elderly) LOL

 

Once players got paid big bucks for their season, the all star game became less important. It used to be a source of income for players. They played 2 games for many years. I think you'll have no shows no matter who does the voting.

But at least it's not like the pro bowl or the NBA all star game where defense is a dirty word.

I like the idea of putting the game to Wednesday and then starting back up on Friday or Saturday.

 

Play the all star game at the end of the season....after the series. Extend it to Thanksgiving or better yet Christmas :laugh: That way nobody will watch it:laugh:

 

My friend, you have hit the nail on the head. It isn't as big an income to players making millions a year or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. When players needed to work in the off season, it was much different.

 

No, did not sit well with me.

No-shows should not get their AS Game bonuses unless they attend the game.

Yes, fans should still be allowed to vote for the AS players. If players do all the voting I foresee collusion, either to get certain players into the game or else to ensure that guys don't make it.

Can't take a full week off as MLB wouldn't want to miss playing the weekend games after the AS game. However, I agree with having the game played on Wednesday with games resuming on Friday.

A couple of other things.

1. Drop the rule that if an AS player pitches on Sunday they can't pitch on Tuesday. A pitcher's bullpen session is usually the 2nd day after their previous start, so if a pitcher throws on Sunday afternoon, I think they could pitch one inning on Tuesday night (as if it were a bullpen session.) Justin Verlander missed out on pitching in this year's AS game because of this rule.

2. Compress the Home Run Derby into 2 hours instead of 2 1/2 to 3 hours. It simply takes too long and doesn't hold people's interest. Get rid of Chris Berman (back, back, back, back....) as the announcer.

3. Have a pitching contest. Have pitchers compete to see how many pitches they can consecutively throw into a target area set up at home plate. (Advertising opportunity!) The target could be reduced in size for each subsequent round.

 

That's the problem though. November baseball is usually marked by bad weather, which isn't usually conducive to quality baseball.

 

I agree 100%. Lets get the WS over no later than mid Oct.

 

I don't think anyone wants snow outs. But for years we had them. If we are going to have snow outs, I would rather see them at the start of the season than see the WS is Nov.