# The Baseball thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baseball-thread/24470>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 3, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baseball-thread/24470 "2000-07-03T20:10:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@Kiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiva)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baseball-thread/24470/61 "2000-07-08T07:21:32Z")

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Satan wrote:

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> **It’s a long-standing tradition that the manager will play favorites to guys on his team. After all, the manager will have to be around those guys a lot longer. And in years where we didn’t have a manager in there, Yanks got screwed too.**

If it was a long-standing tradition that all the other managers jumped over a cliff, would Torre too?

I can understand a slight favouritism, but in the Posada case, I think Torre went too far. The Baltimore fans have been cheated. I’d be really angry right now, if I was one. There just isn’t that big of a difference between Posada and Johnson, and in that case, the player from the least represented team should go.  
The Orioles are only sending ONE guy, and he may not even play; the Yankees are sending four.

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**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baseball-thread/24470/62 "2000-07-10T05:01:56Z")

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**The Not So All-Star Game**

This is getting depressing, really. So far MIA on Tuesday night will be :

Pedro  
A. Rod  
Big Mac  
Junior Griffey  
Barry Bonds  
Maddux  
(and thanks to Clemmons) likely Piazza too

I understand why injured players do not want to risk playing in a game that doesn’t count . . . but as a fan it still strikes me as disapointing. Can anyone remember a year with so many starters out ? There appears to be no way (save I guess moving the game to pre-season) to alleviate this problem. I’m just glad now that I am not one of those who paid $150 for a ticket.

::sigh::

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baseball-thread/24470/63 "2000-07-10T12:47:10Z")

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> \*Originally posted by NothingMan \*  
> \*\ ***The Not So All-Star Game**
> 
> This is getting depressing, really. So far MIA on Tuesday night will be :
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> Pedro  
> A. Rod  
> Big Mac  
> Junior Griffey  
> Barry Bonds  
> Maddux  
> (and thanks to Clemmons) likely Piazza too
> 
> I understand why injured players do not want to risk playing in a game that doesn’t count . . . but as a fan it still strikes me as disapointing. Can anyone remember a year with so many starters out ? There appears to be no way (save I guess moving the game to pre-season) to alleviate this problem. I’m just glad now that I am not one of those who paid $150 for a ticket.
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> ::sigh:: \*\*

Come on, It’s not like it’s gonna be a bunch of bush-leaguers out there! If you watch the game you are gonna see some fantastic players like:  
Gary Sheffield, Kevin Brown, Darrin Erstad, Jason Giambi, Pudge Rodriquez, Sammy Sosa etc. etc.

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