WARNING!! Annual OT Baseball Thread 2011!! Open at Your Own Risk!

[26 Year Gap]

Amazing that Jeter goes 5 for 5, but is not able to make it to the All-Star Game.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Amazing that Jeter goes 5 for 5, but is not able to make it to the All-Star Game.

Sixteen All-Stars won’t appear in the game, including 13 of the 68 originally chosen.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Amazing that Jeter goes 5 for 5, but is not able to make it to the All-Star Game.

Originally Posted by grunewar

Sixteen All-Stars won’t appear in the game, including 13 of the 68 originally chosen.

Apparently, the NHL suspends players who play immediately prior to the All-Star game, but then decline their selection. I believe it's a 2-game suspension. Maybe baseball could look into something like this?

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Apparently, the NHL suspends players who play immediately prior to the All-Star game, but then decline their selection. I believe it's a 2-game suspension. Maybe baseball could look into something like this?

According to Colin Cowherd (ESPN), this is a sign that baseball is clean. He reasons that the fact that these players are banged up indicates a lack of drugs that would promote faster healing. It should also be noted, some of the players cannot participate because of recent starts (like Sabathia).

Would these Barry Bonds' stats indicate juicing to you?

AVG HR SLG
.328 73 .863
.334 62 .702
.341 45 .749

These answers may be interesting.

[ChuckElias]

Where's the chat room for the All-Star Game???

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Where's the chat room for the All-Star Game???

When is the game?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

When is the game?

This year's game featured the best players who weren't injured, weren't afraid of potentially getting injured, weren't too tired, were free the night of July 12, didn't pitch recently, weren't scheduled to pitch the next week, didn't mind making the trip to Arizona, and were actually willing to play a couple of innings of baseball.

I can't find the reference, but it was reported that about 23% of all the players who had enough at bats, or innings pitched, to qualify for various awards at mid season, were, at one time, or another, or in one way, or another, selected to play in this year's all star game. If they picked a few more, they would eventually have selected Lackey, from my Red Sox. What a travesty that would have been?

And the game counted for home field advantage. Selig should of had the home run derby count for home field advantage. What other sport has it's all star game count? Especially when all the best players aren't even there. Jeter was healthy enough to get five hits in a game, including his 3000th, a home run, but not healthy enough to play in the all star game? Or just show up to tip his cap to the fans?