Re: relevance of all-star game

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

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Jim McMaster
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From: "James C. McMaster (Jim)" <mcmasjc@tatanka>

...but that money is guaranteed whether they win or not.  The All-Star Game 
"prize" would depend only on the outcome of the game.


In message <001501c2bdc8$d44b2ac0$0301000a@ANY>, "James A. Hill" said:
> Paying them a "hefty sum" sure makes them seem to care during the regular
> season....
> 
> <Jim
> 
> > 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.