All-Star Game

KickChick · July 10, 2002

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and the winner is .... Nobody!

Let them play! Let them play!" chanted the crowd at Miller Park. But commissioner Bud Selig called the All-Star Game after 11 innings and a 7-7 tie.

You can't charge people 150 bucks a ticket and not play until somebody wins. You can't tell the nation that this is the only All-Star Game left that's still a real game and then tell them four hours later that it doesn't matter if anybody wins.

Then there's the other side-- Theorganizations, and their managers, entrust their players to the all star coaches, and the last thing they want to see happen is sending home a guy who is not going to be able to compete for the ballclub that's paying his salary.

So how do you resove this situation in the future then?

Put more players on the rosters and just tell them that some of them won't play unless the game goes into extra innings. Or , play nine innings no matter what. Tell everybody from the start. And then, if it's tied, each team picks one guy, and you decide it with a Home Run Derby.

BTW .... way to go Giambi!!