Julia Thompson wrote: >I don't know. All I've been hearing are calls for Selig's head on a >platter, that sort of thing, for the All-Star game stuff as much as >anything else. > It _would_ be nice if baseball had a real, independent commissioner. But I'm not sure what else Selig could have done at the point that the game was called. What if the game had continued and one of the pitchers just took himself out of the game? The managers have to either plan for extra innings or the rules of the game have to change.
> > >I'd hate to have a strike. I'm not as into baseball as a number of >other people I know, but it's just really annoying to have the season >die prematurely, which is what happened the last time there was a >strike. And with everything else that's got people upset, keeping >baseball alive for the whole season might be better for the US in >general than a strike would. > I think a strike would be a disaster. They had to invent the "live" ball to get fans back after the last one, what will they do this time? Doug
