Re: relevance of all-star game

["James C. McMaster (Jim)" <mcmasjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <4.2.0.58.20030116173915.00acd950@pop3.east.ora.com>, Ellie Cutler 
s
aid:
> I heard today in passing that the winner of the baseball all-star game will 
> now determine home field advantage in the World Series. At first I thought 
> 'that's not fair!', then I thought 'well, it would make the players give a 
> s**t about the game.'
> 
I think that is a silly idea, myself.  Letting an unrepresentative sample of 
players in an unrepresentative single game determine anything is dumb.  Why 
not pay each player on the winning team a hefty sum if all you want is for 
them to care.
  
> That said, I would love to see Kedrick in the dunk contest. Anybody know if 
> they're bringing that back?
> 
I hope not...that and Michael Jordan are responsible for ruining the pro 
game.  The glorification of dunks leads to a street style of individual ball 
I find boring.  A player makes a name in street ball and high school by 
dunking and individual skills.  Then he goes to college (or straight to the 
pros) because he is hot shit, and gets millions before he learns to play.  
Then, why should he accept coaching in the NBA from some old fart who makes a 
fraction of his salary?

Sorry...feeling curmudgeonly today.

-- 
Jim McMaster
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Go Celtics!