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And none of that made Sportscenter - shame.

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This rarely happens, but I actually agree with Whitlock. Bill Simmons' article about the weekend is pretty funny. I think they should dump the premise of all star games in all sports. The pro-bowl is terrible, the basketball game (admittedly I didn't watch) sounds like it gets worse every year, and the pitching restrictions in the baseball game makes players take the mound under very unfamiliar conditions. I guess they're a nice pay-day for the host cities and the leagues though.

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Junker, what are the pitching restrictions in the baseball all-star game? Out of all the sports, I've always enjoyed baseball's all-star game the best. It's classy, they always spend time paying tribute to legends of the game and it's high quality because there's the home-field advantage at stake now.

The point of an all-star game is not to, as the NBA does, see how many highlight plays you can have in one game, but to answer the question "Man, how good of a game would that be if you got the game's best players all on the same court/field for one game." The NBA doesn't do that because no one really cares that much about the outcome.

I don't watch the NBA but I would have watched the All Star game if I was home. However, I was not willing to change any plans just to see it. It's funny how the media is not making this top news yet we need to the minute updates in Anna Nichole. O-well, it's the same way the media covers most things.

There are no real restrictions, but you have starter coming in after an inning or 2 and such. Then there was a couple of years ago when they called the game because neither team had enough pitchers to go extra innings. That was what I was trying to address. Of all the all-star games, I agree that baseball does the best job, but it still doesn't really get me going as a fan.

I thought the pitching was great last year. What's his name from the Dodgers was unconscious through the first what was it? three innings? Didn't he get like 7 straight strikeouts or something?

Maybe they need to add more pitchers to the lineup to remedy the problem.

[QUOTE=DC_Ref12]The point of an all-star game is not to, as the NBA does, see how many highlight plays you can have in one game, but to answer the question "Man, how good of a game would that be if you got the game's best players all on the same court/field for one game." The NBA doesn't do that because no one really cares that much about the outcome.[/QUOTE]

and How good of a game do you really get? you get no defense from anyone NOT named Sean Taylor, you get a I am here because I have to be attitude from players, you have weird written and unwritten rules so NOONE gets hurt.

right what a great game where all the players are there for a paycheck and dont want to compete.

Except punters playing for psychotic coaches.:D

I heard Kobe on the Dan Patrick show and he said that Bill Russell told him that in Russell's first All-Star game, there were 3 fights!! I guess they cared back then! :eek:

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Scrapper also back then only the winning team got paid...

This did happen in a big city right? This was Las Vegas right? What does any of this have to do with the NBA. Gangs are all over the place. I doubt seriously that some of these same incidents do not take place during other events. And the fact that Jason Whitlock wrote this article tells me a lot about the credibility of this story.

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JRut -- you are failing to understand that this happened IN LAS VEGAS -- our most moral and uncorrupt city. The streets are safe and the people that visit are law abiding.

This weekend of terror can only be attributed to the thuggish mentality that the NBA brought to the quiet and peaceful city in the desert.

Jason Whitlock used extreme objectivity in his article and I am sure that the citizens of Las Vegas will be happy if this boorish game never went back.

Vegas was much better when the mob ran it. I first visited Vegas in 1961. My grandparents lived there and I would go out there from Chicago for a few weeks in the summers during school break. I took the train. I had cousins in LA that would meet me there. Dinner buffets were $1.99 and you could see two big acts at dinner shows for about $5.00 including dinner. I saw the original Rat Pack a few times. Then, in 1970, I lived there for a while before coming to Portland. I've been back numerous times, mostly for trade shows.

It's really a shame what's happened to that town.

$1.99 buffets? Shows for $5.00? I suppose you had to walk uphill, both ways to get there back then too. :D

OK enough already. Vegas does have crime, but not like what this article described.
It is not always unsafe to walk the strip.
Living in Vegas is not the same as visiting Vegas. A lot of locals do not go to the strip unless they work on the strip or have someone in town visiting. Locals go to locals' casinos like Texas Station, Boulder Station, Fiesta and Sam's Town.
Mark, you don't think the mob still runs Vegas? Seriously? That's funny.

You guys want some fear? Try DC/Maryland - I was there three weeks ago and they seemed to be killing people for sport.

This happens in Vegas (or did when I was there, '93-98) whenever you have a big sports event in town. A lot, and I mean a lot, of gangbangers come to town from California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Tupac was killed the weekend of a big fight by some LA bangers. Even on a normal weekend the gang population rises. A lot of the gangs in Vegas are off-shoots of gangs in Cali. So when you have a big fight or an event like the All-Star game you gonna find that crime rate goes up for those few days.

But it's not just gangs. A lot of criminals flock to Vegas to find marks. Plus you have a very transient population in Vegas. Gaming/Hotel work and construction are the top industries in town. A lot of folks come to Vegas looking for quick work.

So it doesn't make for a very stable population base.

I remember seeing Carol Burnett open for the Smothers Brothers at the Dunes. The boys were doing some skit in which Tommy did something stupid (now there's a surprise) because "everyone else did it." Dickie asked him if he would jump off a bridge just because everyone else did it and Tommy replied, "Huh, not again".

I also remember the El Cortez hotel on Fremont St. downtown serving steak and eggs from midnight to 6am for 99 cents.

My grandfather worked in casinos at the Stardust, the Sands and the Sahara. Back in Chicago, he worked for Al Capone in the 20s (I am not kidding).

Yep, except now they are doing it with Metro buses. 4 pedestrians killed this month.:(