The Indians' Cliff Lee and the Brewers' Ben Sheets have been chosen to start Tuesday's All-Star...

The Indians' Cliff Lee and the Brewers' Ben Sheets have been chosen to start Tuesday's All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, SI.com has learned.

Sheets' selection may have been aided to some degree by fortuitous timing, as both Brandon Webb of Arizona and the Giants' Tim Lincecum pitched Sunday, and Reds sensation Edinson Volquez pitched Saturday.

Lee, Sheets to start All-Star Game - Jon Heyman - SI.com

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I don't like the selections

I think it would have been great to see Mariano Rivera start the game for the AL. The atmosphere would’ve been electric.

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by NawlinsOriole on Jul 14, 2008 3:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

But this time it counts!

Yet another reason to just let this be a meaningless exhibition game.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 14, 2008 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like the idea of letting

the overall record of interleague play determine homefield advantage in the Series… seeing as how, you know, interleague is the greatest thing since baseball, itself, was invented.

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by dayzd toe on Jul 14, 2008 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

I think that would be the best solution. It makes a lot more sense than this shit!

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by NawlinsOriole on Jul 14, 2008 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What the hell

No it doesn’t!

by Awesome Mike Awesome on Jul 14, 2008 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How doesn't it?

Please tell me, oh wise Red Sox fan.

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by NawlinsOriole on Jul 14, 2008 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Because

why should shit teams like the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals determine home field? What more sense does that make? The Orioles don’t give a fuck who gets home field in the World Series. MORE sense? Please.

by Awesome Mike Awesome on Jul 14, 2008 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

sure we do, we want the AL to get home field advantage so that the Rays have an advantage when they play in the World Series

plus its not like the Orioles or any other team would try to lose games to give the other leage an advantage. That’s just stupid.

by math_geek on Jul 14, 2008 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

But

why does it make MORE sense?

Also, the Orioles don’t need to TRY to lose games. They would just lose them, you see.

by Awesome Mike Awesome on Jul 14, 2008 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How does the All-Star Game...

determining the World Series make any sense? It’s a fucking exhibition game! At least all the interleague games are real.

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by NawlinsOriole on Jul 14, 2008 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Did I say

it made any sense? This idea is equally stupid. Most definitely not the “best solution,” in your words.

by Awesome Mike Awesome on Jul 14, 2008 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A little clarification

“The Orioles don’t give a fuck who gets home field in the World Series.”

Neither do about half the rosters on either team of the ASG. Add in the fact that interleague schedules are skewed (the Yanks and Sox didn’t get the Cubs, the Yanks didn’t get the Brewers, either, we got BOTH, away) and the clearest answer, aside from the historical solution of alternating, is best overall record. Each of the other Big 4 do this for their playoffs, and so does MLB until the very end.

Why not let overall record determine home field in the WS?

by duck on Jul 14, 2008 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why not, indeed

Because Kenesaw Molehill Selig once saw Ted Williams play all 17 innings of an AS game with a broken freakin’ neck (OK, I exeggerate, but only a little, that’s the messed up part) and got all outraged at how the tie of ‘02 somehow defiled the meaning of an exhibition game.

Oh, and give an assist to the demon beasts from hell at Fox. Anything for a meaningless ratings gimmick, right, Uncle Rupe?

You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.

by sluggo 2.0 on Jul 14, 2008 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs