Jake — I just want to point out that in the Unfair High School Match-ups rant you state that La Salle and Hendricken get their player/students from all over the state. In fact, they can even get their players from other states. I don’t know for sure if there are any, but students from MA and possibly CT could commute to those schools…and play sports there.
Hallelujah! The Bud Selig rule in the MLB is finally dead. It was eliminated from the MLB’s most recent CBA. In case you didn’t know, about ten or so years ago, then commissioner of MLB Bud Selig, established a rule that gave home field advantage in the World Series to the league/team that won the mid-season All Star game. For example, if the National League won the All Star game, the National League team got home field advantage in the World Series. It was a bad idea because the All Star game is an exhibition game. Things that happen in that game don’t count toward a player’s season or career stats. And managers manage it like an exhibition game. It’s an “everybody gets to play” game, and the players don’t even play with full intensity. That’s IF they play. Since the game doesn’t count otherwise, many of the marquee players voted to the All Star roster end up forgoing attendance because of “injury,” “personal business,” “family matters,” etc. And so, the “best” players aren’t always the players on the field in the All Star game. In their place the second or third place vote getters are substituted. In a game that isn’t supposed to mean anything…that means something. The elimination of the rule comes just a year too late for my Chicago Cubs. It means that they would have had home field advantage in the World Series. And in the seven-game series they would have been celebrating their historic victory in front of their fans in ‘the friendly confines’ of Wrigley Field. But, like Cub fans always say…”Wait ’til next year!”
November 1, 2016 at 3:03 pm
Jake — I just want to point out that in the Unfair High School Match-ups rant you state that La Salle and Hendricken get their player/students from all over the state. In fact, they can even get their players from other states. I don’t know for sure if there are any, but students from MA and possibly CT could commute to those schools…and play sports there.
December 2, 2016 at 8:27 am
Hallelujah! The Bud Selig rule in the MLB is finally dead. It was eliminated from the MLB’s most recent CBA. In case you didn’t know, about ten or so years ago, then commissioner of MLB Bud Selig, established a rule that gave home field advantage in the World Series to the league/team that won the mid-season All Star game. For example, if the National League won the All Star game, the National League team got home field advantage in the World Series. It was a bad idea because the All Star game is an exhibition game. Things that happen in that game don’t count toward a player’s season or career stats. And managers manage it like an exhibition game. It’s an “everybody gets to play” game, and the players don’t even play with full intensity. That’s IF they play. Since the game doesn’t count otherwise, many of the marquee players voted to the All Star roster end up forgoing attendance because of “injury,” “personal business,” “family matters,” etc. And so, the “best” players aren’t always the players on the field in the All Star game. In their place the second or third place vote getters are substituted. In a game that isn’t supposed to mean anything…that means something. The elimination of the rule comes just a year too late for my Chicago Cubs. It means that they would have had home field advantage in the World Series. And in the seven-game series they would have been celebrating their historic victory in front of their fans in ‘the friendly confines’ of Wrigley Field. But, like Cub fans always say…”Wait ’til next year!”