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1. DarrenOne of these happened in this universe.
Reminds me of Alan Partridge's reply to the kid who hadn't heard of Wings. "Why, they're just the band The Beatles could have been!"
I play QB for the Patriots and have sex with Gisele Bundchen.
Snicker.
Been hangin' out with Biff or something?
Alternate-Universe James Hetfield Named Taco Bell Employee of the Month
Pete Jensen?
I'm sure he's no more a primate than I am a Dolphins CB. But it got my attention.
I always wonder about stars and what roles in their early years they didn't get and how that would have changed things for them.
For instance if a young Tom Cruise got the Alex P Keaton role would he have really turned it down and if he took it what would have happened to his career?
The American League allows Bob Hope to buy the Washington Senators after the 1968 season -- or the San Diego Padres do indeed move to D.C. in 1974, with Bill Giles leaving the Phillies to become the new NL Senators' general manager.
Atlantic Records gets a $35,000 loan in 1955 and signs Elvis Presley from Sun.
What if the Expos move to Buffalo before they ever play a game?
What if the Giants move to Toronto?
What if the Mariners move to Tampa? (or the Giants? or the Mariners?)
What if the Twins move to Carolina?
The preface to that would have been Humphrey beating Nixon in 1968. Bob Short was a Minnesotan and a huge Humphrey fundraiser. He would have gotten some cabinet appointment, making him too busy to buy the Senators.
-Fidel Castro signs with the Dodgers
-Danny Ainge and Jay Schroeder lead the 1983 Blue Jays to the World Series
Buddy Holly loses the coin flip.
Burt Reynolds plays Sonny Corleone. Ernest Borgine or Laurence Olivier as Vito.
The Pilots never move to Milwaukee and Satan never gets his foot in the door as an owner.
I'm thinking in this fictitional universe that the powers that be don't realize how to make the game popular, don't expand, don't have interleague play, don't have wild cards, and routinely compete with Soccer as America's fifth most popular sport.
-William Randolph Hearst just ignored Citizen Kane instead of starting a vendetta against it. As a result, it won a then-record nine Academy Awards in 1941.
-Jeffrey Maier stays home to do some homework. Orioles win- or at least extend- 1996 ALCS.
-In the 80s, Alan Moore wrote a ground-breaking comic book series using characters DC had recently acquired from Charlton Comics instead of reimagining them.
I doubt it becomes as ground breaking if he is allowed to use the Charlton characters. (and I would have missed out on DC's Blue Beetle which was a fun series if not appreciated at the time)
Love that, even in the alternate world they can't catch a break. Of course with Theo running the show now, it's only a matter of time.
...Dave Roberts gets a bad start, is thrown out at second, and the Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Red Sox in the 2004 ALCS.
In this universe, can we have Carole Lombard lose her coin flip, too, and have to take the train back from the Indianapolis war bond rally?
Or in game 5 Tony Clark's ball short hops the wall in right (instead of a ground rule double) and Jeter running from first base scores and the Yanks take the lead. (I can't remember if it is the ninth or extra innings)
Made palatable, however, by the fact that the Sox rode Grady Little's confident and brilliant use of his bullpen to a 2003 World Series championship.
These are just getting stupid.
Josh Beckett would have had something to say about that. 2003 Marlins were not the pushovers that the 2004 Cardinals were.
Interesting factoid: all five of those people (along with Brian Jones, and possibly a few other I've forgotten) died at 27.
Stonewall Jackson isn't accidently shot and killed...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
Dybzinski doesn't stumble on the bases, the Chisox beat Baltimore in five games in the 1983 ALCS, followed by beating the Phillies in the World Series, and Tony La Russa signs a 10-year extension and ultimately manages on the South Side for the next 28 seasons.
Meh, you're not missing anything.
So it is marketing and not the game itself and its history which helps the game retain its status?
And, you know this how?
Eh, he would have gotten killed in the Wilderness anyway.
and more people die to achieve the same results.
I'm seriously hoping that is a sarcastic line. I can't imagine anyone thinking the 105 win Cardinals are a pushover relative to 91-71 Marlins.
When Selig took over as commissioner baseball was seriously being challenged by the NBA as the second most popular sport in america, since then mlb has caught up the the NFL and is co-champion for most popular sport in the U.S. Without Selig's vision, traditionalist might be happy, but the game would be teetering on financial collapse.
2003 Marlins WS record = 4-2
2004 Cardinals WS record = 0-4
Clearly the Marlins were the pushovers...
Mostly true.
(oh, all happening after the refs call an illegal catch on the immaculate reception)
And Jarome Iginla is the second-best catcher in baseball.
Not sure how old you are, but MSM and the "water cooler" sports fan pretty much declared NBA superior to MLB in the mid-late 80s and most of the 90s. Esp when the 1994 MLB strike hit. Major NBA events such as Dr J, Magic v Bird positioned the NBA to surge, a few great rivalries in the 80s early 90s didn't hurt either, like Pistons v Bulls and Jordan winning 6 championships.
It probably wasn't until 1998 when Big Mac (god that's 14 years ago) and Sosa shredded the HR record books when baseball finally reclaimed a clear lead over the NBA. It didn't hurt that was the same year Jordan ended his career on the Bulls. But 1998 truly did boost baseball, roids or not.
Most of BTF posters over 30 probably remember it this way as well.
Selig works a PED ban and testing into new collective bargaining agreement in 1995, Big Mac and Sosa never conspire to shred the HR record books and MLB never regains supremacy over the NBA, 5 years later "slow paced" and "old fashioned" MLB experiments with titanium metal bats in order to juice offense and baseball attendance to compete with "exciting" and "fantastic" NBA action, two pitchers are killed on the same day, MLB is sued for $2 billion in damages and folds.
-Bo Jackson signs with the Bucs and is decapitated in his 6th game after a shovel pass from Steve Young. Brian Bosworth goes on to a 15yr HOF career as a linebacker for the 'Hawks. Never makes Stone Cold.
-Marina Sirtis is cast as Lt. Macha Hernandez, security chief in ST:TNG. Denise Crosby still quits as Counselor in season 1. Lt. Hernandez is considered the second-most vile character in Star Trek history after Ezri Dax.
-John Romero makes you his ##### with Daikatana.
-Billy Beane never writes that book.
Speak for yourself. I'm on the lowest end of that spectrum, but on the anecdotal side, I don't remember the NBA ever being more popular than Jordan's run, which is only a six year stretch during the 90's. According to TV ratings:
The highest ever rating for an NBA finals was Jordan's last in 1998 -- 29m viewers.
Game 7 of the '86 series hit 38m. The '91 series hit 32m. And it's not a game 7 thing -- the '94 NBA Finals between the MAJOREST MARKET Knicks and Rockets, Ewing vs. Hakeem, was around ~17m. It took the Babe Ruth of basketball and a strike to get anywhere close to MLB, but the NBA was never a threat to MLB when Jordan wasn't playing in the playoffs. Crazy talk.
Edit: Pretty sure I found bad data for ratings, but I doubt the correct numbers would alter the point much.
While everyone wants to proclaim 1998 and McGwire and Sosa as the reason baseball revived, failure to recogize a resurgent Yankee franchise as being important is incorrect. The Yankees elicit a reaction from all sports fans (love them or hate them).
If McGwire and Sosa are the reason, why are the fans still following the game after their departure, and subsequent disgrace?
I can't even imagine Mauer playing professional football even though he had the talent to do so.
Nebraska is no longer the greatest team never to win a National Championship. The one tie hurts their all-time status. I think Miami was destined for greatness even if they had tied and not won the National Championship.
What if Lonnie Smith remembers base-running 101?
Then Jack Morris' HoF support hovers in the mid-20%s and he drops off the ballot in 2014?
Actually, he was going to be the "next great option QB" at Nebraska after Tommie Frazier, so maybe the Bill Callahan Era never happens.
And Corey Koskie's double doesn't barely skip over the wall in the LF corner in Game 2 of 2004 as the Twins head back home with a 2-0 series lead. Ok, we all know Gardy would have found a way to blow it...
Denkinger makes the correct call, it doesn't change a thing as the team still collapses. (same with Buckner fielding the ball in these universes) Same results for both the 85 and 86 World Series. Just a lot less whining from both respective fan bases.
Buh?
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