"Say it ain't so, Joe"

Jurassic Referee · #1 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 24, 2005, 06:32am

Un-freaking-believable!

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colum...zillgitt_x.htm

Any Blue here ever had an argument with an X-Box player before?

"You're gone- and take your joystick with ya"!

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Jun 24th, 2005 at 07:35 AM]

aevans410 · #2 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 24, 2005, 08:24am

One of those teams outta give me a call. I was playing that game last night beating the Red Sox 25-0 after 4 innings with the Reds

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Sorta off topic, but there are people who make a living playing video games. There are a few people that make better money than most of us by playing Halo 2. This kind of promotion could start a trend. An ugly one at that.

P.S. during a replay, you can bring your manager out of the dugout to argue a call and get tossed.

bigwes68 · #3 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 24, 2005, 09:52am

I guess whatever gets folks to the ballpark...

But why don't they let one player from each team play the game instead of letting a couple of local nerds that probably care nothing about baseball decide the outcome of a professional game?

aevans410 · #4 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 24, 2005, 09:56am

IMO, it shows me that the money that the owners can make by doing something as stupid as this far outweighs the respect that they have for the game.

drumbum565 · #5 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 24, 2005, 10:59am

I think its terrible... just terrible, that cant be legal. Can it?

aevans410 · #6 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 24, 2005, 11:14am

If the league says they can do it, then they can. Who's gonna stop em?

Buckeye12 · #7 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 24, 2005, 11:48am

If the manager or a player gets tossed in the first two innings of the "simulated" game, is he permitted to return to the dugout for the final seven innings?

drumbum565 · #8 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 24, 2005, 02:01pm

Good question. I wonder how they will do that. But i say that if they want to make the 2 innings count i say they should have ejections count also.

cowbyfan1 · #9 (**permalink**) Sat Jun 25, 2005, 02:11am

This is why I would not have anything to do with the Northern league. No respect for the game. What happens if a team is losing 20-0 after the 2 innings and them fails to make playoffs by a half game (if they have playoffs up there). Where is the thrill of the game if it is a slaughter after 2 innings for the rest of the game? You think a player will be motivated being down a ton of runs in a game started by a computer game? What a joke!

TwoBits · #10 (**permalink**) Mon Jun 27, 2005, 10:39pm

They are doing this for the wrong Kansas City team. Perhaps if they did this for the Royals a few times then they won't finish 50 games out of first place!

Matt · #11 (**permalink**) Mon Jun 27, 2005, 11:52pm

Quote:

Originally posted by cowbyfan1
This is why I would not have anything to do with the Northern league. No respect for the game.

As someone who has attended many Northern League games, I vehemently disagree. If anything, there is more respect, because they understand how to keep baseball entertaining through extraneous showmanship while integrating it into the game at hand (unlike giveaways and other stuff done at the major-league level). They understand that baseball, at the professional level, exists to entertain people. Attend a Saints game for once. You might actually enjoy it.