OT: MLB All Star Game- should home field in WS be on the line?
Now that the Tigers wrapped up their first half of the season today (46-43), the ASG is looming.
The Futures game is going on right now on MLB featuring two Tigers prospects including one who should be on the team right now in Joe Jimenez.
But the winner of Tuesday's ASG gets home field in the World Series. Should it be like that?
It certainly makes the game more interesting, and I like the idea. But I think they should change the selection process big time. I think if home field in the World Series is on the line, you have to get rid of the fans picking the starters and have them pick the reserves instead once the starters are named.
What say you?
This is the one all star game in this country where the players actually try and where the result does matter. Even if they got rid of the home field rule, this would still be the best all star game.
If the All-Star game didn't decide I would say the better interleague record would be a better determine factor that overall record.
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Give me a break.
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I'm not sure of what you mea about the 2011 WS. Cardinals won games 6 and 7 at home.
Interleague record makes a billion times more sense than the all-star game.
should have been discontinued years ago.
No way should the WS home-field advantage hinge on the results of an exhibition game between two popularity-stocked teams.
Looking at the starting lineups, why don't they just call this game the Red Sox Lite vs. Cubs Lite.
I'm OK with using the All Star Game to decide home field. (Ask the Pirates how much home field matters when the other team is starting its Cy Young Award winner.) But fan balloting has turned into competitive ballot stuffing.
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If you want to have the ASG mean something like home field advantage in the WS, then a few things need to happen to make it even more competitive:
-eliminate fan voting, let the managers select the starters (have the best, not most popular, players start)
-get rid of the rule that makes you have at least 1 player from every team (this is a stale rule from days when you couldn't watch much else of the league besides your local team. with cable tv and MLB.TV this rule is obsolete)
Personally, I don't think something as trivial as the ASG should decide something as important as home field in the WS. Keep it an event for the fans.
And start the reserves, play them two innings, and then finish up with the best players.
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No. It's an exhibition game and should be treated that way.
No. The whole impetus for that was the ASG that ended in a tie. Everyone got their panties in a bunch over that, as if it were some kind of heresy for a meaningless exhibition to end that way. IMO, that made it a more memorable game than entire decades worth of them. And that's really the whole point.
Even so, it's not a bad thing to try and impart some meaning, but putting the WS at stake is a bad idea. A better one might be that all of the next season's interleague games, regardless of park, are played under the rules of the winning league. Which is to say, DH or no DH.
All that said, if I could change one thing about the ASG it'd be fan voting. Used to be you would get a ballot only at a ballgame. Now any moron with a Twitter account can start a stupid campaign to do things like put their favorite scrub in, or fill the starting lineup entirely with their team. I'd end fan voting entirely except for the "last vote" concept, which is kind of cool."
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Kirk Gibson floated an idea out on Thursday night during the game about home field for the WS.
It would go to whoever has the better interleague play record between the two teams. I like that idea.
In concept there is some merit to this train of thought. However, do they all have the same SOS in their inter-league play? I could be wrong, but I would guess not, and if that is the case, this may not be the best way either.
Why not do what the other major sports do???
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Hell no. It should be the whoever has the most homeruns in the derby between AL/NL representatives obviously.
It doesn't make sense. This is an exhibition game in which every team gets at least one representative, and the managers try to play as many as possible, yet it determines homefield advantage for the World Series?
Just give homefield to the team with the best record. Now that we have interleague play, it's logical.
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Is nothing compared to being home in football or basketball. Not even comparable.
Unlike in basketball and football, baseball organizations can, to some degree, groom and tailor their homefield to benefit their team. Then there are the outfield dimensions, shape, and ivy that are different in every single stadium.
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No.
I never liked this idea personally - as others have said, it is an exhibition and should be therefore consequence-free when it comes to the course of the season, both regular and postseason.
Actually, I would understand it more if home field were determined by the starting pitchers for each league playing a "Best Of Five" tournament of Canasta.
Maybe for the home run derby. Which is honestly the only baseball I watch in a given year Unless there is an interesting matchup in the playoffs or WS.
Because everyone else said no. There has to be at least one voice for the opposition. :)
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