Joe DiMaggio

The end of the baseball Hall of fame game in Cooperstown ? What happen to traditions?

Due to players schedules , But the MLB DOESN'T have a problem playing games in Japan. Is it because MLB owners are looking to bring more Japan players here? What about the traditions of MLB playing baseball at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Why would you want to stop playing in Cooperstown, seeing that's the closes MOST of the players will get to Cooperstown. Bet if it was in LA or in NYC Flordia they would NEVER stop playing .

Public Comments

1. Haven't u realized that Selig & the players don't give a u know what about tradition anymore?
2. I found it disturbing. I couldn't agree with you more. And it seems that more and more, tradition is going by the wayside. I have been to Cooperstown and Doubleday Field is old fashioned, with bleachers and a manual scoreboard. I think it would be a good experience for the ballplayers. I find it very, very unfortunate, to say the least. And consider this: no one even mentioned this on these boards until now and this news is days old. BUT.....there are posting galore about silly stuff. It's not just Selig that has forgotten tradition, many of the fans have forgotten as well, if they ever knew it to begin with.
3. Sadly, other traditions like the Reds playing Cleveland in exhibition charity games (before inter-league play) and MLB teams playing minor-league affiliates each year are either done or close to being extinct. Maybe replace it with one or several NY-Penn League games would at least celebrate the future along with acknowledging the past.
4. it seems like all sports are parting with the traditions that made them great. this has been a bad decade for Sports in my opinion, with all the scandals and problems in sports.
5. Well gosh, there's still the Civil Rights Game, an annual exhibition with a grand tradition of its own, dating all the way back to 2007. This is baseball under the Seligula regime: profitable, but sterile and disconnected from history (unless there's a buck to be made).
6. I love Baseball and I love Baseball traditions. It is sad to see some of them go. But... Baseball like all other professional sports is about entertainment and money. We root for our teams and they love us as long as we are spending money. When we stop spending money, they find ways to get it elsewhere. Whatever happened to the Brooklyn Dodgers, the NY Giants, the Piladelphia Athletics, the St. Louis Browns, the Washington Senators, the Seattle Pilots, the Colt 45's, and on, and on, and on? Heck the California Angels, became the Los Angeles Angels, then became the Anaheim Angels, and now the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. What was behind that? Money. The Hall of Fame game is an exhibition in the middle of the season. I understand why they want it to go away. How upset would Cub fans be if Soriano collides with Ramirez during the game while chasing a foul ball, sending them both to the 60-day DL? They would be really upset. Cubs management would get crucified. Attendance may dwindle (doubtful, its Wrigley) and TV ratings would certainly suffer... and the Cubs would lose money. And there is the magic word - MONEY. MLB's loyalty to traditions is only upheld when there is money in it. When there is no money, traditions be damned.
7. CAUSE THEY FOUND OUT 80% OF THE LEAGUE IS ON THE JUICE. SO THEY ARE GONNA CLOSE DOWN THE HALL OF FAME, SO THEY CAN KEEP THE NAMES OF REAL PLAYERS OUT OF THE STEROID CRAP. HOW CAN U HAVE A HALL OF FAME ANYMORE WHEN THE PLAYERS THE LAST 20 YEARS HAVE ALL BEEN CHEATERS