All-Star & Home Field Advantage

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SmokeyVol

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I personally feel like the All-Star game shouldn't determine WS home field advantage. What do you guys think?

To make interleague play have a little meaning I think they should take overall W/L (obviously make sure there is an odd number of total games played) between the leagues to determine the WS home field advantage.
 
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Here's a novel idea . . . How about the team with the best record gets home field advantage? While we're at it, let's enact the DH rule for all World Series games.
 
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GAVol said:
Here's a novel idea . . . How about the team with the best record gets home field advantage? While we're at it, let's enact the DH rule for all World Series games.
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personally, being a national league fan, i don't like the dh rule in any form of baseball. though allowing dh throughout all world series games might make it more exciting offensively, i think it takes out the strategerie that the game is supposed to have. there are certainly pros and cons to having it and not having it. i do like the idea of the league who has the most wins gets homefield. just my 2 cents.
 
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blupotato said:
personally, being a national league fan, i don't like the dh rule in any form of baseball. though allowing dh throughout all world series games might make it more exciting offensively, i think it takes out the strategerie that the game is supposed to have. there are certainly pros and cons to having it and not having it. i do like the idea of the league who has the most wins gets homefield. just my 2 cents.
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I guess I don't really care either way, but it just seems utterly ridiculous to me that: A) The DH rule isn't the same across MLB one way or the other; and B) Once they get to the World Series they play under different rules depending on what city they are playing in.
 
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GAVol said:
I guess I don't really care either way, but it just seems utterly ridiculous to me that: A) The DH rule isn't the same across MLB one way or the other; and B) Once they get to the World Series they play under different rules depending on what city they are playing in.
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i agree with you on all of that, i guess i am just more of a traditionalist when it comes to the use of a dh. to me it seems much more fair of a game to have no dh in both leagues.

as for the allstar game there are so many guys voted in now that it seems to have lost its luster as an opportunity for guys to play for the honor of being chosen. now it seems, so much like a game where everyone has to play and where players don't want to chance injury or even precious rest. they should all grow a pair and play their hearts out for the fans who pay their salaries. also, i would like to moan about the price of allstar game tickets. i was considering going to anaheim this year and saw that tix were going for close to 600 dollars and ranging up to 10000 dollars. homerun derby tix were going for about half. i guess i won't ever be attending such a game, ever.
 
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The current format is stupidity.

Having an Exhibition Game determine Home Field Advantage is one of the biggest atrocities in all of sports.
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Lofton4Three said:
The current format is stupidity.

Having an Exhibition Game determine Home Field Advantage is one of the biggest atrocities in all of sports.
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Just another shining example of Bud Selig's leadership. :dry:
 
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GAVol said:
Here's a novel idea . . . How about the team with the best record gets home field advantage? While we're at it, let's enact the DH rule for all World Series games.
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Big advantage to the AL if you do that. The AL team in the WS always has a David Ortiz/Edgar Martinez type as their DH, whereas the NL team usually has to stick somebody like Omar Infante in the DH slot because their roster isn't built around having one.

Agreed that the rule should be standardized, but it should be standardized in favor of actual baseball, in which every man bats for himself. Baseball without the DH is just a lot more interesting.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Big advantage to the AL if you do that. The AL team in the WS always has a David Ortiz/Edgar Martinez type as their DH, whereas the NL team usually has to stick somebody like Omar Infante in the DH slot because their roster isn't built around having one.

Agreed that the rule should be standardized, but it should be standardized in favor of actual baseball, in which every man bats for himself. Baseball without the DH is just a lot more interesting.
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exactly what i was getting at. could not have said it better.
 
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