Disaster averted, time to make contingency plan for All-Star Game

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 Disaster averted, time to make contingency plan for All-Star Game
The 15-inning All-Star Game nearly gave us a nightmare scenario -- no more pitchers. Ken Rosenthal has a plan to avoid a repeat [link]

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  • phanatic74 phanatic74
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    If they would stop treating the game as though it was little league and everyone gets to play there would not be an issue.  I was thinking that Francona should get all of the players sno cones when the game was over . . . . . .
    Posted 7/17/2008 [reply] [flag]

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Three Days Without Baseball
Published 7/17/2008 by Brandon Heikoop (noreply@blogger.com) at The Outsiders Look at the Insides of Baseball
... far this season. To say that they were 'babied' at the All Star Game is a leap, and then some! (As a side, it is equally interesting to see that the most used pitcher-innings and pitches-was Colorado's only legitimate starting pitcher, Aaron Cook, whom Hurdle manages). So what was the problem? Why was it that the pitchers were being babied to such a degree? Certainly the pitchers do work on the side in between starts. Ken Rosenthal, of FOX Sports, writes, Which is why alternate pitchers should be the next step. We're not talking ...

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Disaster averted, time to make contingency plan
The 15-inning All-Star Game nearly gave us a nightmare scenario — no more pitchers. Ken Rosenthal has a plan to avoid a repeat.