MN Twins on I-35W Bridge

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?
 
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?

Don't be a jerkoff, if you don't know something, there's these handy things called Wikipedia and Google that miraculously allow you to know things that you otherwise wouldn't! As for not knowing US events, I was in Japan at the time of the collapse, and it was definitely covered on the news there.

I think that there would definitely be a bigger push on infrastructure updating that simply hasn't happened OTL. Assuming that the Twins all died, then something of this high profile will definitely start talks across the nation about the sorry state of US transportation infrastructure. I can definitely see more stimulus money going towards bridges and the like in such a situation.
 
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?
 
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?

Yeah, I don't really think you would get all the Twins on a bus over I-35W considering it would be their home game. Maybe like one or two players, but nothing approaching the whole team.
 
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.
docfl
 
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.
docfl

Then it would more likely be the Kansas City Royals (the Twins' opponent on the game that day) than the Twins. The Twins didn't have a road game scheduled until August 4 at Cleveland, according to the Wikipedia entry on their 2007 season.

If you're really just looking for "what would happen if most of a major league team died suddenly", basically any uninjured survivors would be thrown in with most of the AAA team to finish the season. Since the decimated team would be made up of largely people who either aren't ready for MLB-level play or, frankly, will never be, the resulting team would tank in the standings. In addition, the franchise would probably do poorly for the next couple of years until the team gels together (see: expansion teams). Maybe the rest of MLB would pool some money to quickly rebuild the franchise and make it able to pay for quality players to replace the ones lost (especially in the case of KC & Minnesota, which are two of the small-market teams in baseball).
 
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.
 
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.

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.

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.

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.

TC, do you live in Minneapolis? I just moved to Roseville last month.

Is that me? Because I'm LC, I guess.

No, I live in north-central Minnesota.

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.

I should have known there would be something like this out there. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

I'm sure Selig would have allowed a team that had most, if not all, of its active roster to hold a disaster draft. I mean, if he didn't, the outrage would make things get really ugly.
 
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.
How could you forget Matt Tolbert!? I was as big a Duensing booster as some people were Blackburn boosters.
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.
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?

Disaster draft... thanks PoorBoy. Baseball has a rule for everything!
 
The AAA moves up. They do poorly but get some great draft choices. If the MLB is nice they each give them a player but most likely would be guy #25.
 
Everyone saying that the AAA team moves up, that's not how it works. In the event that a significant portion of a team (at least 5 members) is permanently incapacitated in an accident, MLB would initiate their disaster protocol, which according to wikipedia is Rule 29 of the major league rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_draft

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.

In other words, the most likely event is that a disaster draft will be held to replace the missing players, and the front office would decide how many of the drafted players would comprise the new team, and how many slots would be filled by minor leaguers already in the system.

The second most likely event, actually, is that the team is declared unable to complete their season, the draft is held in the offseason, and they resume play in the following season.

Edit: Ah. Somehow I glazed over PoorBoy posting the same link. Still, it's probably worth having the actual text of the MLB part in this thread, so there you have it.
 
I'll say this though: the policy on what happens if an entire team is wiped out by an unforeseen disaster is something that the commissioners of the the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL hope to never implement, even though plans are in place.
 
Knowing nothing about baseball (& caring about as much:p), I want to thank both for the disaster draft link.
 
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