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 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject: St. Louis gets 2009 and NY gets 2008 All-Star game |
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| espn.com tonight wrote: |
ST. LOUIS -- Busch Stadium in St. Louis will host baseball's All-Star Game in 2009.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig made the announcement Monday night at the 49th annual dinner hosted by the St. Louis chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
"There can't be a better baseball town in America," Selig said.
The decision, which was expected, gives St. Louis its first baseball All-Star Game since 1966. The old Busch Stadium hosted the Midsummer Classic that year.
The new Busch Stadium opened last April, across the street from the old Busch, and the Cardinals went on to win the World Series in their first season in their new ballpark.
The 2007 All-Star Game is scheduled for July 10 in San Francisco and the 2008 event is likely to be played at New York's Yankee Stadium, which is slated to be in its final season.
Back in October, during the NL Championship Series, Selig said it was very likely that St. Louis would be granted the 2009 showcase. |
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shoewizard
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| We'll never get the all star game. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| shoewizard wrote: |
| We'll never get the all star game. |
Maybe if they keep the roof open more often... 
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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is there any precedent for a new stadium being snubbed like the bob has been? i understand the reasoning behind it: az at the asb would suck, no real mass transit system, limited hotels, etc. but still, this f'ing blows.
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David B
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't know about a baseball precedent, but F-ing David Stern has snubbed us here in Portland for years in regard to hosting an all star game. The Blazers have been in the league since 1970, built a nice new arena in 1995, and yet...nada. I guess the man is too busy rigging draft lotteries to give a shit. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| McCray wrote: |
| is there any precedent for a new stadium being snubbed like the bob has been? i understand the reasoning behind it: az at the asb would suck, no real mass transit system, limited hotels, etc. but still, this f'ing blows. |
Bullshit. AZ is hosting its second super bowl and does the fiesta bowl every year. Those events dwarf the ASG.
/bullshit to that line of thinking, not you personally
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:46 am Post subject: |
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is it the stadium? mass transit? who knows....
but i must ask.....does the franchise still owe MLB money in payments??
if so i bet the MLB is upset that the AZ owes them money....so the MLB office should have the game in AZ and all profits go to the MLB to pay off the debt!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:22 am Post subject: |
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And just for good measure, Arizona is stiffed again in 2008. 
| Buster Olney of ESPN The Magazine this morning wrote: |
Yankee Stadium to host '08 All-Star Game
Yankee Stadium will be the site of the 2008 All-Star Game, sources in baseball said, in the last year of the ballpark.
The new Yankee Stadium is scheduled to open in 2009, and old Yankee Stadium closed, 86 years after the ballpark was first built in 1923, and 53 years after the ballpark was remodeled on the same site. With the All-Star Game slated to be in an AL park in 2008, officials chose Yankee Stadium for the site, believing it to be an appropriate way to close usher out the historic building.
The All-Star Game has been held in Yankee Stadium three times previously, the last time in 1977.
An announcement on the selection of Yankee Stadium is expected in the days ahead, perhaps next week, with Major League Baseball coordinating with the Mayor's office in New York.
Next summer's All-Star Game will be played in San Francisco, and on Monday night, Commissioner Bud Selig formally announced that the 2009 All-Star Game will be played in St. Louis. |
AL was a given in '08 with an every other year rotation, although that tradition was broken in 1951 with the Tigers and in 2007 with the Giants. Should we start an email campaign for Arizona in 2011?
The oldest "new" stadium (built since Oriole Park at Camden Yards) not to host an All-Star Game is Chase Field in Phoenix which opened in 1998. It had been passed over for All-Star Games by even newer stadiums including Miller Park, Comerica Park, PNC Park and 2007 game host AT&T Park. The only other current Major League cities never to have hosted an All-Gtar Game are both in Florida, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' Tropicana Field and the Florida Marlins' Dolphin Stadium. The Marlins were originally awarded the 2000 game, but it was then moved to Turner Field in Atlanta after the Marlins' 1997 fire sale.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| McCray wrote: |
| is there any precedent for a new stadium being snubbed like the bob has been? i understand the reasoning behind it: az at the asb would suck, no real mass transit system, limited hotels, etc. but still, this f'ing blows. |
Part of it is timing... Bud has dangled the All Star carrot out to encourage new stadiums, but the Dbacks already had to come up with one just to land the franchise.
Expect ANY new stadium in the NL to automatically jump ahead of Arizona while Bud has any say.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:53 am Post subject: |
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So, Marlins and Twins will all have new stadiums soon.
I have no idea why Arizona has been snubbed an all-star game for, at this point, 11 years. My only guess, albeit having no basis for this theory, would be the location of Chase Field, and the amount of hotels in the surrounding area, in addition to the already mentioned transit issue, as downtown Phoenix isn't exactly the easiest place to navigate. But that doesn't mean that it's more difficult to move around in other places.
And then again, maybe each club has to accept offers from MLB, and Arizona may have turned it down <_< |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| As will the Mets and Yankees |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| baldmaga wrote: |
So, Marlins and Twins will all have new stadiums soon.
<snip>
And then again, maybe each club has to accept offers from MLB, and Arizona may have turned it down <_< |
| David B wrote: |
| As will the Mets and Yankees |
Oh, sorry, can't resist!
As will the Mets and Yankees what?
Have a new stadium soon?
Or turn down the ASG?
I 'spect it's the former... but you left the door open!
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Yankees will get special dispensation--awarded the ASG for historic Yankee Stadium's final season .... and then inaugurate the beginning of its new era the following year in the new one. 
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| moviegeekjn wrote: |
| McCray wrote: |
| is there any precedent for a new stadium being snubbed like the bob has been? i understand the reasoning behind it: az at the asb would suck, no real mass transit system, limited hotels, etc. but still, this f'ing blows. |
Part of it is timing... Bud has dangled the All Star carrot out to encourage new stadiums, but the Dbacks already had to come up with one just to land the franchise.
Expect ANY new stadium in the NL to automatically jump ahead of Arizona while Bud has any say.
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