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Page 8 The Battalion Friday, April 16,1993 TAKE OUT RIBS FOR THE CRIB At Lower Prices Every Day Deli Fresh Smoked In-Store Whole Slab BBQ Ribs SAVE 1.00 12-Pk./12-Oz. Cans All Varieties Pepsi or Diet Pepsi 20-Oz. Super Size Ruffles Potato Chips 2?5 12-Pk./12-Oz. Cans All Varieties Coors Beer 16-Oz. Nabisco Oreo Cookies 2-Liter Bottle All Varieties Pepsi or Diet Pepsi WINN H) DIXIE America's Supermarket® Prices good Fri., April 16 thru Tues., April 20,1993 in your Bryan & College Station Winn-Dixie stores. None to dealers. We reserve the rignt to limit quantities. Copyright 1993 Winn-Dixie Texas, Inc. Sea, Sun, Surf, Summer School Attend Texas A&M University Mitchell Campus on Pelican Island and take Texas A&M University Courses All courses taught at the Galveston Campus are on the course inventory at College Station. No Friday Classes On Campus Housing Available Students who are currently enrolled and in good standing at Texas A&M are eligible to enroll. Please contact (in afternoons only) Dr. Davis Fahlquist, Associate Dean, Colleges of Geosciences and Maritime Studies in RM. 204, O&M Bldg. Then, call Admissions and Records at Texas A&M University at Galveston (409) 740-441 5 Courses Offered ACCT 229, 230 BANA 303,424 Chem 227,237 327 450,459 228,238 ECON 202 ENGL 251,301 HIST 106 203 334 373 FINC 341 MATH 130 POLS 206 131 207 MKTG 321 151 340 166 347 RHYS 201,202 STAT 302 CPSC 203 MARS 310 MARA 363 MARB 311,330 OCNG 401 373 335,350 408,435 489 SUMMER'S COOL ON GALVESTON ISLAND For more information about programs at Texas A&M University at Galveston, contct (409) 740-4428 or come by our table in the MSC on April 19 or 20. Recruits Continued from Page 7 run at the Southwest Conference title next season under the guid ance of All-SWC players David Edwards and Damon Johnson, A&M did not lose a player off of last year's team, and will have their first full amount of scholar ships since the Kermit Davis regime. That has enabled the Ag gies to sign more quality players. Smith was named Class 5A player of the year and is now in the running for the Texas Mr. Basketball award. He set eight school records while leading the Stingarees to four district cham pionships, and was named most valuable player at the Class 5A state tournament in 1992. "All our freshmen our good kids and they all come from win ning programs," Barone said. "1 really think it ups our program because success breeds success." A&M is expected to sign their last recruit of the year Friday, hut because of NCAA recruiting re strictions Barone was unable to comment on him at press time. Baylor Continued From Page 7 tention, but I don't think Texas is as good as they were last year," Lewis said. "They (Texas) have a good team but I think we are bet ter than them. "But to prove that, we need to go out and have a big series against Baylor, which won't be easy. We will definitely not take them lightly." A&M coach Mark Johnson said he is awaiting the Baylor series. "Baylor's got a good team," Johnson said. "We expect to have our hands full and we're really anxious to get started and see how we match up." Rush Continued from Page 7 like, so allow me to convey to you some of my concerns for my favorite game. First of all, the idea of inter league play is...wait a minute, isn't that the whole point of the World Series? I thought that the idea of such great match-ups as the Battle of the Bay, the brag ging rights to New York, the 1-70 Series, and a very unlikely and not yet played Lone Star Series were solely reserved for the Fall Classic, not regular season play. Am I wrong here? Does baseball have to play follow-the-leader and conform to proposals that will change the face of the game that so many people have come to cherish so deeply? Furthermore, is a new playoff system necessary, or even feasi ble? Is there something wrong with the current setup? I think four qualified teams is unique and, well, perfect. Baseball teams currently have goals other than making the playoffs or get ting a wild card berth. These clubs play hard for 162 games, and if that's not good enough, pack up and wait for next sea son. When was the last time a team repeated as champions in professional baseball? Fifteen years ago, with the 1977 and 1978 New York Yankees. This just illustrates that the playoff system currently used in base ball makes it hard to repeat as champion and therefore is more challenging. The San Francisco 49ers of the NFL and the Chicago Bulls of the NBA are just two examples of recent back-to-back champi ons in other professional sports. Not to say that these teams were not the best in their respective leagues, but they had the chance to enter the playoffs, even if they had an extended losing streak at the end of their season. Not so in baseball. Other plans to ruin the game's individuality call for the expansion of both the American and National league to hold three divisions as opposed to the current two. The split will create two divisions housing five teams, while the remaining four teams would constitute a newly- created third division. The play off teams would then be selected from the three division leaders and a wild-card (the division runner-up with the best record). As for these proposed plans of expanding the already exist ing divisions, why? With seven teams in each of baseball's four existing divisions, everything is perfectly neat and orderly. Why change a system that has been working for nearly a century. To this I say simply, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Owners say that by restruc turing both the divisions and playoff systems, more revenue can be generated by creating possibilities for second place teams to enter the playoffs. Money is great and all, but enough! Money has done enough to professional sports as it is. Cre ating more revenue through this newly proposed restructuring will only equal even bigger salaries and astronomical fig ures. Ten million dollars a year will be protocol and baseball's name will sink even further down the proverbial toilet. Is a few million here or there to a franchise or the league that im portant? Does this proposal real ly mean that much to dismantle the structure that baseball has provided throughout the decades? I think not. If these new plans are ap proved and then implemented, what is to stop two more expan sion teams from entering into the league to form three divi sions of five teams each? Person ally, I believe that since the 1993 season began with 28 teams in all, including two newly-drafted expansion teams, it should re main that way forever. If base ball is so dry, boring and unwill ing to change, why did they just adopt two new teams and have a league-wide expansion draft to fill the rosters of these two new teams? If memory serves right, I don't recall any recent expan sions in the NFL. Maybe the baseball season is too long for some, and even I agree that the playoffs tend to drag on a bk. But change is not the answer. Maybe the new sys tem would»M-ing in more rev enue and allow for more teams to have a shot at the playoffs, but then what is the point of having 162 games or giving the Cleveland Indians a shot at their dream? Let the game remain what it has become today. Why change f he one constant that has been there over the years? Why follow the lead of others? 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