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| St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has officially retired as manager of the Cardinals, but Bud Selig would like him to manage one more game in the Cardinals uniform. Selig is hoping La Russa manages in the 2012 All-Star Game. - Photo courtesy of Getty Images |
Every season when Major League baseball hosts it annual All-Star game in July, each team is managed by the respective league's manager from their representative in the World Series the previous season.
Since the St. Louis Cardinals appeared in and won the 2011 World Series, that would mean that in the 2012 All-Star game, manager Tony La Russa would be scheduled to manage the National League.
There is obviously one huge problem with that. Tony La Russa just retired.
Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig told reporters on Tuesday that he would hope that La Russa would return to manage the National League next season.
"I'd like to see him do that. We've got to see what happens."The All-Star game has drawn quite a bit of controversy of late. This season in particular, the St. Louis Cardinals got home field advantage in the World Series despite making the playoffs as a Wild Card team, simply because the National League was victorious in July.
So Selig's decision to publicly wish for La Russa to manage the All-Star game is certainly an interesting one.
The new manager of the Cardinals certainly may want a chance to manage in the game, especially if the Cardinals are in in contention.
An All-Star victory would mean another chance at home field advantage for the Cardinals in next year's World Series if they were to miraculously make it again.
Either way, Selig has guaranteed some extra intrigue in next year's All-Star game and it will be interesting to see if La Russa puts on the Cardinals uniform one more time to manage the National League All-Stars next July.
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why does everyone say that the Cards were given a gift of home field advantage? yes, they were the wild card, but they also contributed to the ASG win. Yadi had 2 hits and Berkman had 1, it's not like they were a hack team that just got lucky! They came into the postseason & beat the 3 best teams in the tourney.
ReplyDeleteThe Cardinals were horrible they just got lucky and ran into terrible pitching along the way and won. That was some of the worst baseball of the year and unfortunatley it was in the WS. Tony jumped ship because he knows Albert is leaving.
ReplyDeleteIt is time to put an end to this farce of whoever wins the All Star game that league automatically gets home field advantage in a seven game series. This is a HUGE advantage in so short of a series. The "old" way of alternating home field advantage was, while not exactly fair, a better way of evening things out. If you must have a different system, then why don't you go by the highest wining percentage of the two finalists gets home field advantage. This seems to me a much fairer way of giving home field advantage. why should a team who won their division have to give up their home field advantage to a wild card team? You could theoretically have a team with a .600 winning percentage playing a team who were barely above.500 and not have the better winning percentage not have home field advantage under the present and past systems.
ReplyDeleteTo me this is just ridiculous. Look at last years NFL playoffs. Seattle had a losing record, yet by winning their division they had home field advantage in the first round of the playoffs. Does baseball really want to have a similar situation in the future? I for one think not.
Yes, the Cards were the wild card.....but they also defeated two division champions to get to the world series. I think that trumps the wild card label.
ReplyDeleteHaha, people saying cards were only lucky because of bad pitching of the other teams.. im guessing you didnt see the games where they won 1-0, 2-0. low scoring games dont look like bad pitching to me, i dont think?
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