All-Star game: Last link to World Series home-field advantage?
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For the ninth consecutive year -- and perhaps the last year -- the league that wins the All-Star game will have home-field advantage in the World Series. The agenda for this year’s collective bargaining negotiations include whether to continue to link the All-Star game to the World Series, with the players opposed.
‘We’re going to be talking about the All-Star game,’ Michael Weiner, executive director of the players’ union, said Monday.
Weiner declined to say any more about the issue on Monday, the day before this year’s All-Star game. However, at last year’s game in Anaheim, Weiner said there was ‘strong sentiment’ among players that home-field advantage in the World Series should be awarded to the team with the better record in the regular season.
‘Any team would love to have home-field advantage in the World Series,’ Texas Rangers infielder Michael Young said Tuesday.
Young, whose Rangers lost the home-field advantage to the San Francisco Giants last fall because the American League lost the All-Star game last summer, said home-field advantage for the World Series is decided by an exhibition game in which ‘95% of the guys’ will not play in the World Series.
‘That’s a little tough to explain,’ he said. ‘I think there are other ways to do it.’
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