Heh. Gotta love indy league teams. I'm sure this will get them a few tickets sold even if Jordan just does the expected and laughs it off.

I'd love to see an indy league team become a 'seniors league' team - all former major leaguers who want to play just once more for real. Ala the old senior league but focused on just one team. Probably would have to be owned by one of the players who'd promise the guys a special one year reunion tour type idea. It would help the gate for all teams in the league and be fun to see.

“Who knows how the book is written if there was no Major League Baseball strike in 1994?”

Maybe Jordan would have gotten an at-bat or two late in a September blowout, but the '94 White Sox were in a dogfight for a division title. They wouldn't have just rolled him out there for giggles.

That said, I agree with John. Independent ballclubs need to do anything they can to draw attention to themselves if they want to survive and prosper, and if it involves this sort of goofy publicity stunt, well, that's a small price to pay for more baseball in the world.

I'd love to see an indy league team become a 'seniors league' team - all former major leaguers who want to play just once more for real

Isn't this what the Newark Bears kinda were for years? In past years they've had Carl Everett, Jose Lima, Randall Simon, Jeroime Robertson, and Rob Mackowiak.

The new GM and I grew up together, in Joliet. I emailed him when I saw this yesterday and told him I'd support the idea, but only if he also got Michael to dunk on the GM's old driveway hoop, like we pretended would happen all the time when we were in 5th grade.

I'd love to see an indy league team become a 'seniors league' team - all former major leaguers who want to play just once more for real. Ala the old senior league but focused on just one team.

I really miss the old senior league, which started up right when I moved away from South Florida. I tried to follow it in the papers and always loved the idea of an open pool of veteran players continuing to play in hopes of getting back into the bigs. Off the top of my head, I remember Joaquin Andujar, Dave Kingman, Mickey Rivers, and Bert Camapanaris as being active there. It's a crying shame the league folded and an idea that should be revisited. Surely it would be a better use of Masters Steinbrenners' money than propping up Jeffrey Loria's luxurious lifestyle.

The Joliet Slammers is an awesome team name.

Isn't this what the Newark Bears kinda were for years? In past years they've had Carl Everett, Jose Lima, Randall Simon, Jeroime Robertson, and Rob Mackowiak.

Not to mention Rickey Henderson.

I tried to follow it in the papers and always loved the idea of an open pool of veteran players continuing to play in hopes of getting back into the bigs.

And it worked in a handful of cases. From the BB-Ref Bullpen:

At least seven of the circuit's players (Ron Washington, Joaquin Andujar, Paul Mirabella, Dave Collins, Dan Boone, Ozzie Virgil, Jr., and Tim Stoddard) signed major league contracts after playing in the Senior League, and at least five (Mirabella, Boone, Collins, Virgil, and Stoddard) played in the big leagues after their Senior League appearances.

Didn't Jose Canseco play for Newark also?

The Joliet Slammers is an awesome team name.

Murphy Dunne plays the stadium organ

Reminds me of Lorne Michaels offering the Beatles something like $500 to reunite on SNL in the '70s.

Jordan needs to focus all of his energies on trying to improve his shitty NBA team, because so far he's doing a pretty lousy job of it.

Reminds me of Lorne Michaels offering the Beatles something like $500 to reunite on SNL in the '70s.

It was $3,000, and Michaels said the group could split it any way they wanted ("if you want to give Ringo less, that's OK"). Apparently John and Paul were hanging out together in NYC that night and actually considered showing up at the SNL studios! (The fact that they didn't undoubtedly altered history in unfathomable ways.)

But what if it did happen...?