All-Star Game IGT!

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

YES!!!!!



That was a great game!!!

[G-Fafif]

Rest easy, Chub Feeney, wherever you are.

[G-Fafif]

Pete Alonso is the 26th Met to play for a winning NL All-Star team, the first since Wright and Dickey in 2012.



Kodai Senga is the 15th Met named to an NL All-Star team but never/not yet play in an ASG as a Met.

[stevejrogers]

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Kodai Senga is the 15th Met named to an NL All-Star team but never/not yet play in an ASG as a Met.

[Edgy MD]

9-2



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[Bob Alpacadaca]

That was one of the better All-Star Games. Some spectacular defensive plays. Close game. Opportunities for heroics in the ninth inning. Limited number of Yankees. Unlikely hero.



I don't love the mics on the players, especially the pitchers. But it wasn't that bad. Too much Ortiz, Jeter and ARod screwing around. That was bad. But the game itself rises above the people who try to screw it up.



The haters missed a good one.

[Fman99]

I spent time with my family instead. We play in a summer volleyball league on Tuesday nights. Last night we came back to win the third set and save face after dropping the first two. More fun than listening to those fucking ESPN hacks.



Based on the comments here I will watch the 8-10 minute MLB site condensed game, which is a format I've appreciated this season for those west coast Mets swings.



OE: Fox hacks. Same thing

[kcmets]

Bob Alpacadaca wrote: The haters missed a good one.

Just re-read the thread, don't see any hatin'.

I did say, 'zero interest in this exhibition' but that's hardly hatin'.

Made fun of Mrs. Met, but that's also hardly hatin'.

Who or what are 'the haters?'

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, I'm not interested in the game at all either, but I'm not a hater. And I don't think I missed anything. I could have watched, but no matter how exciting the game may have been, I would have been bored. I can't sit through a sporting event if I don't care about the outcome.

[Frayed Knot]

I was tired, went to bed early (and still overslept!!) so missed most of the game and didn't even know the winner until reading this thread at lunchtime.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yeah, I'm not interested in the game at all either, but I'm not a hater. And I don't think I missed anything. I could have watched, but no matter how exciting the game may have been, I would have been bored. I can't sit through a sporting event if I don't care about the outcome.

This is me. I used to love the ASG growing up but I've gradually continued to lose interest. The very last straw for me was these uniform uniforms the all-stars now wear. I always felt that one of the game's biggest charms was seeing all the different baseball uniforms on the field all at the same time. I've no doubt that the change was motivated entirely to get fans to spend more money on another uniform.

[metirish]

Yeah, I tuned out and watched a documentary on serial killers , I do wish like mentioned above that they would go back to letting the players wear their uniforms...how many of these awful ASG unis are sold ? Can't be many ...anyway, IL.play has also diluted the game

[batmagadanleadoff]

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..anyway, IL.play has also diluted the game

[Edgy MD]

MLB would tell you that they polled the fans and this is what we wanted.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: MLB would tell you that they polled the fans and this is what we wanted.

They've been taking that pole and sticking it in us for years.



Later

[nymr83]

I still don't need interleague play. or the DH. An Exhibition Series against the Yankees in Florida could be televised and timed to a few days before the regular season so that both teams can line up their #1/#2/#3 starters and thats about all the interleague i need.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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I still don't need interleague play. or the DH. An Exhibition Series against the Yankees in Florida could be televised and timed to a few days before the regular season so that both teams can line up their #1/#2/#3 starters and thats about all the interleague i need.

[Edgy MD]

I like having access to all cities also, but I lament the impact of interleague play on divisional matchups. When was the last time the Mets played the Marlins? How are we going to catch them if we dinna play them? I can't get rid of them (or the Nats) in Spring Training, but now it's suddenly hard to find them at all.



For that reason I favor interleague play to the tune of two one-game stopovers (one home, one away) against each opposite-league team during the season.

• Two games against each of the 15 teams from the opposite league = 30 games.


• Six games against each of the 10 intra-league extra-divisional teams = 60 games.


• Eighteen games against each of the four intra-divisional teams = 72 games.


• 30 + 60 + 72 = 162.


• This way, the division is (again, and rightly so) mostly decided by intradivisional play, the league is more (and more rightly) decided by intraleague play (playing the Cardinals as frequently as the Rangers is just ass), but you still get a chance to catch Vladdy, Jr. coming to town once a year, or to travel to Seattle, if that's your bliss.

Yeah, one-game stops are a bitch for teams, but they can handle that 10 or 11 times a year. Several times, it won't take any travel at all. An AL team can make their one-day visit to Citi Field when they are already in town having just wrapped a series with the Yankees. A National League team can tack on one game against the White Sox after three at Wrigley.



Other visits won't be in the same town, but aren't particularly cumbersome. A swing from Atlanta to Tampa/St. Pete, for instance, or Chicago to Milwaukee. Also, the impact is lessened if you try to schedule the one-day visits adjacent to off days.



The All-Star Game, as I've banged on about too much, needs to become part of Baseball Week. And it should be a three-game series.



The Futures Game has long been added to the now-extended All-Star break, and they've now pushed the draft back by a month to align it with the ASB, so Baseball Week is kind of already happening whether they mean it to or not.

[nymr83]

1 and 1 is brutal travel.

Why not do 2 at home and 0 on the road and then switch next season?

[Edgy MD]

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1 and 1 is brutal travel.

Why not do 2 at home and 0 on the road and then switch next season?