All Star Game - Page 8

volsforever27 · 07-16-2008, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Vercingetorix

I turned it off. Tell me it's not going to be Drew.

Ummm...

volsforever27 · 07-16-2008, 12:48 AM

Why do they always pick the goofiest guys to present trohpies/awards?

**GAVol** · 07-16-2008, 12:49 AM

Of course it's Drew. Bud Selig is involved . . . doesn't it make complete sense that Bud would hold an All Star game in Yankee Stadium and hand the MVP award to a member of the Red Sox?

kkep48 · 07-16-2008, 08:01 AM

I respect Yankee Stadium, but I'm so glad the All-Star game is done with New York. I could care less about the Red Sox, but what the NY media and the stupid Yankee fans did to Paplebon and his wife yesterday was ridiculous. Yankee fans ripping the guy for no reason and threatening his pregnant wife? The exact reason why I hate dumb, ignorant Yankee fans.

**vols kick balls** · 07-16-2008, 09:06 AM

Dan Uggla is the reason that Brandon Phillips should have made the AS game.

kev20 · 07-16-2008, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by volfanbill

further proof that I like this method of determining home field advantage for the WS...

Even if 5 A's made up the AL lineup right now, I wouldn't be watching this game at 1:20 AM, if it didn't have some sort of significance to it.

How can the average fan really care that this game determines home field advantage? I would consider myself more than an average fan, by the way. While I'm watching it, I don't think, "ooh, I really hope the AL wins this because I care that an AL team gets home field in the WS". It's an exhibition game. Why did they have to change that? Who cares if it ends in a tie. What's that going to hurt? I hated it when they changed this rule.

Were you really concerned about who won because of HFA? Besides, I think Pujols said it best when he said HFA doesn't matter anyway.

volfanbill · 07-17-2008, 09:15 AM

to answer your kev, ratings have been rising on the All-Star game. Not that tidbit really proves either way. I just like having the game say something. It should be noted that for whatever reason, it's the only all-star game I watch. I haven't seen the Pro Bowl in quite a while, and I don't know if I've seen the NBA AS game since Jordan.

On another topic, can Bud Selig ever win? He takes heat a few years ago because he called the game a tie and now he's taking heat because he wouldn't call it a tie. We joke that the media hates Tennessee, but while I don't know why, I firmly believe the media hates Bud Selig.

UTLCA · 07-17-2008, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by kkep48

I respect Yankee Stadium, but I'm so glad the All-Star game is done with New York. I could care less about the Red Sox, but what the NY media and the stupid Yankee fans did to Paplebon and his wife yesterday was ridiculous. Yankee fans ripping the guy for no reason and threatening his pregnant wife? The exact reason why I hate dumb, ignorant Yankee fans.

It wasn't for no reason.

OrangeWilly · 07-17-2008, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by UTLCA

It wasn't for no reason.

Doesn't matter what the reason was...They are retards.

UTLCA · 07-17-2008, 02:40 PM

I'd also say that many Yankees fans aren't dumb. They know the importance of selling out a playoff game, unlike some of their counterparts.

kkep48 · 07-17-2008, 09:00 PM

What was the reason then, because he plays for the Red Sox? What a great reason to rip into a guy's pregnant wife and threaten her.

Vercingetorix · 07-17-2008, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by UTLCA

I'd also say that many Yankees fans aren't dumb. They know the importance of selling out a playoff game, unlike some of their counterparts.

Oh for God's sake. The New York metro area has something like 15 million people in it, the majority of whom grew up there. The Atlanta metro area has 4 million people in it, maybe 500,000 of whom grew up here. The other 3.5 million are from places like New York and Cleveland and Chicago and Michigan and places like that. Everybody craps on the Braves for not selling out their playoffs games, but come on -- selling 50,000 tickets to a playoff game on a Tuesday night in a city in which 75% of the people grew up rooting for a different team is a tough sell.

I'm not going to argue that this is a good sports city; it's terrible. But the reason it's terrible for pro sports is because literally three-quarters of the sports fans here grew up somewhere else. I'm not from here either, but even being from the south is kind of a rarity. Talk to people in the bars, and it's all Yankees, Yankees, Sox, Cubs, Tribe, Tigers, Tribe, Reds. How the hell are you supposed to sell out first-round playoff games 14 years in a row if that's who lives in your town?