Lets say, for reasons uncertain or schedule delay, the MN Twins are atop the I-35W bridge when it collapses. What happens to sports? Baseball in Minnesota? Politics?
Lets say, for reasons uncertain or schedule delay, the MN Twins are atop the I-35W bridge when it collapses. What happens to sports? Baseball in Minnesota? Politics?
A little clarification of this would be appropriate.
I assume the MN Twins are some new Anime characters and the I-35W their spacecraft. So the Bridge was destroyed in battle and they were not there correct? They owned a Minnesota baseball team with political influence?
You do get that not all of us are US citizens with a deep knowledge of US popular culture, right?
Do pro baseball teams often, or even travel together on a bus? Id think that for home games theyd drive their own vehicles, and for away games, theyd fly. Wouldnt if be more likely for a visiting team to be using a bus from the airport to hotel to stadium to be caught in such a manner?
How about team is on way to or from the airport. Most times the players gather at the teams headquarters and travel to airport by bus. As to after would the triple A team be promoted to the show.
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OMG.
Actually judging by who we had in the farm system at that time... the most notable guy in Rochester is Denard Span in his first year there. There are about a half dozen guys on there who made it to the major leagues or had been (including Duensing, Slowey, Casilla, LeCroy) but it's going to be bad bad bad. I also don't see them playing for a while either.
I don't think much else changes. As a country we still aren't going to put up the money to restore national infrastructure, and as a state the replacement bridge isn't going to go up any faster. It went up lightning fast as it was. It's possible some of the widows or families might become advocates for infrastructure repair on state level or start scholarships for families of those who died. Santana, and Mauer certainly had enough money.
TC, do you live in Minneapolis? I just moved to Roseville last month.
I'm not sure how much of this applied in 2007, but I'm guessing that a Disaster Draft will be held...pending consultation with the commissioner.
How could you forget Matt Tolbert!? I was as big a Duensing booster as some people were Blackburn boosters.According to Baseball-Reference.com, at the time of the incident we had a bunch of people in Rochester who could've hacked being in the pros: Span, Duensing, Slowey, Casilla, LeCroy (who'd already been there), Garrett Jones & Nick Blackburn. Other than that...not so much.
Sorry, TC = Thread Creator. I was actually asking about Top hats daily. Some places I go say TC and others say OP. But I didn't know you lived in MN, I grew up in northwest MN. I was living in Iowa during this period, can you think of any infrastructure projects that might be fast tracked or happen at all because of it?Sadly, true. I could see infrastructure improvement being a bigger priority in Minnesota for the next couple of election cycles, or at least until the Twins get back into form. Other than that, it's not going anywhere.
Is that me? Because I'm LC, I guess.
No, I live in north-central Minnesota.
Major League Baseball's disaster plan is covered in Rule 29 of its Major League Rules.[2] The plan is triggered by an event causing the death, dismemberment, or permanent disability of at least five players from a team's active, disabled, or suspended roster during a season (including the playoffs), or at least six players during the off-season. Major League Baseball's commissioner will decide if the disabled club can continue play, in consultation with the MLB Players Association and the club. The commissioner can hold a restocking draft to allow the disabled club(s) to select as many players as it lost, with the restriction that no more than one player can be selected from any one team. Each of the non-disabled teams makes five players available for the draft taken from its active list (or if during the off-season, from its reserve list), composed of one pitcher, one catcher, one outfielder, and one infielder (the remaining player can be from any position), subject to adjustments by the commissioner based on the players lost by the disabled club(s). If a team has fewer than three eligible catchers, it does not have to provide a catcher to the draft. The players provided must have at least the same amount of service time as the players that were lost, as of August 31 in the previous season, within sixty days (that is, a player's service time must not fall short of a lost player's by more than sixty days). Players with no-trade rights can exercise this right and not be placed in the restocking draft.
The commissioner and players association can also agree upon other appropriate relief for a disabled club.